Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] memory: Split zones when do coalesced_io_del()

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 20/08/19 07:16, Peter Xu wrote:
> It is a workaround of current KVM's KVM_UNREGISTER_COALESCED_MMIO
> interface.  The kernel interface only allows to unregister an mmio
> device with exactly the zone size when registered, or any smaller zone
> that is included in the device mmio zone.  It does not support the
> userspace to specify a very large zone to remove all the small mmio
> devices within the zone covered.
> 
> Logically speaking it would be nicer to fix this from KVM side, though
> in all cases we still need to coop with old kernels so let's do this.
> 
> This patch has nothing to do with 3ac7d43a6fbb5d4a3 because this is
> probably broken from the very beginning when the
> KVM_UNREGISTER_COALESCED_MMIO interface is introduced in kernel.
> However to make the backport to stables easier, I'm still using the
> commit 3ac7d43a6fbb5d4a3 to track this problem because this will
> depend on that otherwise even additions of mmio devices won't work.
> 
> Fixes: 3ac7d43a6fbb5d4a3
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>

What about my comments to this patch? :)

Paolo

> ---
>  memory.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
> index c53dcfc092..7684b423f8 100644
> --- a/memory.c
> +++ b/memory.c
> @@ -857,6 +857,9 @@ static void address_space_update_ioeventfds(AddressSpace 
> *as)
>  
>  static void flat_range_coalesced_io_del(FlatRange *fr, AddressSpace *as)
>  {
> +    CoalescedMemoryRange *cmr;
> +    AddrRange tmp;
> +
>      if (!fr->has_coalesced_range) {
>          return;
>      }
> @@ -865,9 +868,30 @@ static void flat_range_coalesced_io_del(FlatRange *fr, 
> AddressSpace *as)
>          return;
>      }
>  
> -    MEMORY_LISTENER_UPDATE_REGION(fr, as, Reverse, coalesced_io_del,
> -                                  int128_get64(fr->addr.start),
> -                                  int128_get64(fr->addr.size));
> +    /*
> +     * We split the big region into smaller ones to satisfy KVM's
> +     * KVM_UNREGISTER_COALESCED_MMIO interface, where it does not
> +     * allow to specify a large region to unregister all the devices
> +     * under that zone instead it only accepts exact zones or even a
> +     * smaller zone of previously registered mmio device.  Logically
> +     * speaking we should better fix KVM to allow the userspace to
> +     * unregister multiple mmio devices within a large requested zone,
> +     * but in all cases we'll still need to live with old kernels.  So
> +     * let's simply break the zones into exactly the small pieces when
> +     * we do coalesced_io_add().
> +     */
> +    QTAILQ_FOREACH(cmr, &fr->mr->coalesced, link) {
> +        tmp = addrrange_shift(cmr->addr,
> +                              int128_sub(fr->addr.start,
> +                                         
> int128_make64(fr->offset_in_region)));
> +        if (!addrrange_intersects(tmp, fr->addr)) {
> +            continue;
> +        }
> +        tmp = addrrange_intersection(tmp, fr->addr);
> +        MEMORY_LISTENER_UPDATE_REGION(fr, as, Reverse, coalesced_io_del,
> +                                      int128_get64(tmp.start),
> +                                      int128_get64(tmp.size));
> +    }
>  }
>  
>  static void flat_range_coalesced_io_add(FlatRange *fr, AddressSpace *as)
>