Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] virtio-balloon: tweak config_changed implementation

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Wed Jan 09 2019 - 13:23:02 EST



On 09.01.2019 15:52, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 01:07:16PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> On 09.01.2019 11:35, Wei Wang wrote:
>>> On 01/08/2019 04:46 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 08.01.2019 06:35, Wei Wang wrote:
>>>>> On 01/07/2019 09:49 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>>>> On 07.01.2019 08:01, Wei Wang wrote:
>>>>>>> virtio-ccw has deadlock issues with reading the config space inside the
>>>>>>> interrupt context, so we tweak the virtballoon_changed implementation
>>>>>>> by moving the config read operations into the related workqueue contexts.
>>>>>>> The config_read_bitmap is used as a flag to the workqueue callbacks
>>>>>>> about the related config fields that need to be read.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The cmd_id_received is also renamed to cmd_id_received_cache, and
>>>>>>> the value should be obtained via virtio_balloon_cmd_id_received.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Together with
>>>>>> ÂÂÂ virtio_pci: use queue idx instead of array idx to set up the vq
>>>>>> ÂÂÂ virtio: don't allocate vqs when names[i] = NULL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> OK. I don't plan to send a new version of the above patches as no changes needed so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael, if the above two patches look good to you, please help add the related tested-by
>>>>> and reviewed-by tags. Thanks.
>>>> Can we also make sure that
>>>>
>>>> virtio_pci: use queue idx instead of array idx to set up the vq
>>>> virtio: don't allocate vqs when names[i] = NULL
>>>>
>>>> also land in stable?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You could also send the request to stable after it gets merged to Linus' tree.
>>> The stable review committee will decide whether to take it.
>>>
>>> Please see Option 2:
>>>
>>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
>>>
>>
>> Those patches are not upstream yet, Correct?
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> can you add the stable tag before submitting? If not, can you give me a heads up when doing the
>> pull request so that I can ping the stable folks.
>
> Can you reply to patches that you feel are needed on stable with just
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> in the message body?
>
> Then it's all automatically handled by ack attaching scripts.

Done. But this only works if those patches are not already part of a tree. I guess they have to go via
your tree, correct?