Re: Random guest crashes since 5c34d002dcc7 ("virtio_pci: use shared interrupts for virtqueues")

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 02:23:44 EST


On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 20:18 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> BTW, WRT RT woes with $subject, I tried booting a generic kernel with
> threadirqs, and bingo, same deal, just a bit more painful than for RT,
> where there's no watchdog moaning accompanying the (preemptible) spin.

BTW++: the last hunk of this bandaid may be a bug fix. With only the
first two, box tried to use uninitialized stuff on hibernate, went
boom. Looks like that may be possible without help from me.

--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@ static int virtcons_probe(struct virtio_
portdev->max_nr_ports = 1;

/* Don't test MULTIPORT at all if we're rproc: not a valid feature! */
- if (!is_rproc_serial(vdev) &&
+ if (!is_rproc_serial(vdev) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING) &&
virtio_cread_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_MULTIPORT,
struct virtio_console_config, max_nr_ports,
&portdev->max_nr_ports) == 0) {
@@ -2179,7 +2179,9 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[

static unsigned int features[] = {
VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_SIZE,
+#ifndef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_MULTIPORT,
+#endif
};

static struct virtio_device_id rproc_serial_id_table[] = {
@@ -2202,14 +2204,16 @@ static int virtcons_freeze(struct virtio

vdev->config->reset(vdev);

- virtqueue_disable_cb(portdev->c_ivq);
+ if (use_multiport(portdev))
+ virtqueue_disable_cb(portdev->c_ivq);
cancel_work_sync(&portdev->control_work);
cancel_work_sync(&portdev->config_work);
/*
* Once more: if control_work_handler() was running, it would
* enable the cb as the last step.
*/
- virtqueue_disable_cb(portdev->c_ivq);
+ if (use_multiport(portdev))
+ virtqueue_disable_cb(portdev->c_ivq);
remove_controlq_data(portdev);

list_for_each_entry(port, &portdev->ports, list) {