Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Check hopefully the last DISCARD command error

[Zenghui Yu]

Hi Eric,

On 2020/1/10 16:37, Auger Eric wrote:
> Hi Zenghui,
>
> On 12/25/19 2:30 PM, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> > DISCARD command error occurs if any of the following apply:
> >
> >   - [ ... (those which we have already handled) ]
> nit: I would remove the above and simply say the discard is supposed to
> fail if the collection is not mapped to any target redistributor. If an
> ITE exists then the ite->collection is non NULL.

I think this is not always true. Let's talk about the following scenario
(a bit insane, though):

1. First map a LPI to an unmapped Collection, then ite->collection is
   non NULL and its target_addr is COLLECTION_NOT_MAPPED.

2. Then issue MAPC and unMAPC(V=0) commands on this Collection, the
   ite->collection will be NULL, see vgic_its_free_collection().

Discard the LPI mapping after "1" or "2", we will both encounter the
unmapped collection command error.

> What needs to be checked is its_is_collection_mapped().
>
> By the way update_affinity_collection() also tests ite->collection. I
> think this is useless or do I miss something?

Yeah, I agree. We managed to invoke update_affinity_collection(,, coll),
ensure that the 'coll' can _not_ be NULL.
So '!ite->collection' is already a subcase of 'coll != ite->collection'.
We can safely get rid of it.

> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for that. I'll change the commit message with your suggestion and
add your R-b in v2.


Thanks,
Zenghui