RE: [PATCH net-next 12/14] vsock/vmci: register vmci_transport only when VMCI guest/host are active

[Jorgen Hansen]

> From: Stefano Garzarella [mailto:sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 6:31 PM
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 04:27:28PM +0000, Jorgen Hansen wrote:
> > > From: Stefano Garzarella [mailto:sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:56 AM
> > >
> > > To allow other transports to be loaded with vmci_transport,
> > > we register the vmci_transport as G2H or H2G only when a VMCI guest
> > > or host is active.
> > >
> > > To do that, this patch adds a callback registered in the vmci driver
> > > that will be called when a new host or guest become active.
> > > This callback will register the vmci_transport in the VSOCK core.
> > > If the transport is already registered, we ignore the error coming
> > > from vsock_core_register().
> >
> > So today this is mainly an issue for the VMCI vsock transport, because
> > VMCI autoloads with vsock (and with this solution it can continue to
> > do that, so none of our old products break due to changed behavior,
> > which is great).
> 
> I tried to not break anything :-)
> 
> >                  Shouldn't vhost behave similar, so that any module
> > that registers a h2g transport only does so if it is in active use?
> >
> 
> The vhost-vsock module will load when the first hypervisor open
> /dev/vhost-vsock, so in theory, when there's at least one active user.

Ok, sounds good then. 

> 
> >
> > > --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
> > > @@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ bool vmci_host_code_active(void)
> > >  	     atomic_read(&vmci_host_active_users) > 0);
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +int vmci_host_users(void)
> > > +{
> > > +	return atomic_read(&vmci_host_active_users);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >  /*
> > >   * Called on open of /dev/vmci.
> > >   */
> > > @@ -338,6 +343,8 @@ static int vmci_host_do_init_context(struct
> > > vmci_host_dev *vmci_host_dev,
> > >  	vmci_host_dev->ct_type = VMCIOBJ_CONTEXT;
> > >  	atomic_inc(&vmci_host_active_users);
> > >
> > > +	vmci_call_vsock_callback(true);
> > > +
> >
> > Since we don't unregister the transport if user count drops back to 0, we
> could
> > just call this the first time, a VM is powered on after the module is loaded.
> 
> Yes, make sense. can I use the 'vmci_host_active_users' or is better to
> add a new 'vmci_host_vsock_loaded'?
> 
> My doubt is that vmci_host_active_users can return to 0, so when it returns
> to 1, we call vmci_call_vsock_callback() again.

vmci_host_active_users can drop to 0 and then increase again, so having a flag
indicating whether the callback has been invoked would ensure that it is only
called once.

Thanks,
Jorgen