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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 00/19] virtio: alignment issues
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:41:32PM -0400, Jason Wang wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > This is an alternative to
> > vhost: force spec specified alignment on types
> > which is a bit safer as it does not change UAPI.
> > I still think it's best to change the UAPI header as well,
> > we can do that as a follow-up cleanup.
> >
> > changes from v6:
> > add missing header includes all over the place
> > changes from v5:
> > ack for mellanox patch
> > fixup to remoteproc
> > changes from v4:
> > fixup to issues reported by kbuild
> > changes from v3:
> > tools/virtio fixes
> > a bunch more cleanups that now become possible
> >
> > Changes from v2:
> > don't change struct name, instead add ifndef
> > so kernel does not see the legacy UAPI version.
> >
> > Jason, can you pls ack one of the approaches?
>
> I prefer this approach but it looks a little bit risky for 5.7. Can we
> do this in 5.8?

It's not rc1 even yet, I think it's fine.

> Instead of using Kconfig, could we simply fail the initalization of
> vhost like:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 0395229486a9..e9f6a008ed12 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -2636,6 +2636,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dequeue_msg);
>
> static int __init vhost_init(void)
> {
> + struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
> +
> + if (__alignof__ *vq->avail > VRING_AVAIL_ALIGN_SIZE)
> + return -ENOTSUPP;
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
> Thanks

It's not just vhost, vringh is also broken.

It's not even rc1 yet, and I really like the resulting cleanup.
So I pushed this to next and it all seems to work pretty well,
I think I'll go with this.

> >
> >
> > Matej Genci (1):
> > virtio: add VIRTIO_RING_NO_LEGACY
> >
> > Michael S. Tsirkin (18):
> > tools/virtio: define aligned attribute
> > tools/virtio: make asm/barrier.h self contained
> > tools/virtio: define __KERNEL__
> > virtgpu: pull in uaccess.h
> > virtio-rng: pull in slab.h
> > remoteproc: pull in slab.h
> > virtio_input: pull in slab.h
> > virtio: stop using legacy struct vring in kernel
> > vhost: force spec specified alignment on types
> > virtio: add legacy init/size APIs
> > virtio_ring: switch to virtio_legacy_init/size
> > tools/virtio: switch to virtio_legacy_init/size
> > vop: switch to virtio_legacy_init/size
> > remoteproc: switch to virtio_legacy_init/size
> > mellanox: switch to virtio_legacy_init/size
> > vhost: option to fetch descriptors through an independent struct
> > vhost: use batched version by default
> > vhost: batching fetches
> >
> > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 1 +
> > drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 1 +
> > drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c | 1 +
> > drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_main.c | 5 +-
> > drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c | 8 +-
> > drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c | 6 +-
> > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c | 1 +
> > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/vhost/test.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 271 +++++++++++++++--------
> > drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 23 +-
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_input.c | 1 +
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 1 +
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 15 +-
> > include/linux/virtio.h | 1 -
> > include/linux/virtio_ring.h | 46 ++++
> > include/linux/vringh.h | 1 +
> > include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h | 30 ++-
> > tools/virtio/Makefile | 2 +-
> > tools/virtio/asm/barrier.h | 1 +
> > tools/virtio/linux/compiler.h | 1 +
> > tools/virtio/ringtest/virtio_ring_0_9.c | 6 +-
> > tools/virtio/virtio_test.c | 6 +-
> > tools/virtio/vringh_test.c | 18 +-
> > 25 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 141 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > MST
> >
> >
>
> >

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