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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 07:14:22PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 04:18:23PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Mike,
> > 
> > can you try the patch below?
> > 
> > ---
> > >From fe41a30b54878cc631623b7511267125e0da4b15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 14:51:35 +0200
> > Subject: virtio_pci: don't use shared irq for virtqueues
> > 
> > Reimplement the shared irq feature manually, as we might have a larger
> > number of virtqueues than the core shared interrupt code can handle
> > in threaded interrupt mode.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 142 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h |   1 +
> >  2 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> 
> Well the original patch this is trying to fix is
> 07ec51480b5eb1233f8c1b0f5d7a7c8d1247c507 which dropped just 40 lines
> with documentation. It did this by re-using error handling to switch
> from per-vq to non-per-vq mode. Now this has separate flows for errors
> and per-vq non-per-vq switch and (I think, as a result) is adding 140
> lines which doesn't make me very happy.

The above adds 23 lines.  We could entangle both loops again, but I'm
not sure it's going to buy us much.