Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] s390/vfio-ap: fix circular lockdep when setting/clearing crypto masks

From: Halil Pasic
Date: Tue Mar 09 2021 - 05:24:13 EST


On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 12:43:44 -0500
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On the other hand, if we don't have ->kvm because something broke,
> then we may be out of luck anyway. There will certainly be no
> way to unregister the GISC; however, it may still be possible
> to unpin the pages if we still have q->saved_pfn.
>
> The point is, if the queue is bound to vfio_ap, it can be reset. If we can't
> clean up the IRQ resources because something is broken, then there
> is nothing we can do about that.

Especially since the recently added WARN_ONCE macros calling reset_queues
unconditionally ain't that bad: we would at least see if there is a
problem with cleaning up the IRQ resources.

Let's make it unconditional again and observe. Can you send out a v4 with
this and the other issue fixed.

Regards,
Halil