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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/4] Implement vdpasim stop operation
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 1:06 AM Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Implement stop operation for vdpa_sim devices, so vhost-vdpa will offer
> that backend feature and userspace can effectively stop the device.
>
> This is a must before get virtqueue indexes (base) for live migration,
> since the device could modify them after userland gets them. There are
> individual ways to perform that action for some devices
> (VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND, VHOST_VSOCK_SET_RUNNING, ...) but there was no
> way to perform it for any vhost device (and, in particular, vhost-vdpa).
>
> After the return of ioctl with stop != 0, the device MUST finish any
> pending operations like in flight requests. It must also preserve all
> the necessary state (the virtqueue vring base plus the possible device
> specific states) that is required for restoring in the future. The
> device must not change its configuration after that point.

I'd suggest documenting this in the code maybe around ops->stop()?

Thanks

>
> After the return of ioctl with stop == 0, the device can continue
> processing buffers as long as typical conditions are met (vq is enabled,
> DRIVER_OK status bit is enabled, etc).
>
> In the future, we will provide features similar to VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD
> so the device can save pending operations.
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> v2:
> * Replace raw _F_STOP with BIT_ULL(_F_STOP).
> * Fix obtaining of stop ioctl arg (it was not obtained but written).
> * Add stop to vdpa_sim_blk.
>
> Eugenio Pérez (4):
> vdpa: Add stop operation
> vhost-vdpa: introduce STOP backend feature bit
> vhost-vdpa: uAPI to stop the device
> vdpa_sim: Implement stop vdpa op
>
> drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++
> drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h | 1 +
> drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c | 3 +++
> drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_net.c | 3 +++
> drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/vdpa.h | 6 +++++
> include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 3 +++
> include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h | 2 ++
> 8 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>

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