Re: vhost changes (batched) in linux-next after 12/13 trigger random crashes in KVM guests after reboot

From: Eugenio Pérez
Date: Fri Feb 14 2020 - 07:26:19 EST


On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 13:22 +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>
> On 14.02.20 13:17, Eugenio PÃrez wrote:
> > Can you try the inlined patch over 52c36ce7f334 ("vhost: use batched version by default")? My intention is to check
> > if
> > "strange VHOST_SET_VRING_BASE" line appears. In previous tests, it appears very fast, but maybe it takes some time
> > for
> > it to appear, or it does not appear anymore.
>
> LD [M] drivers/vhost/vhost_vsock.o
> CC [M] drivers/vhost/vhost.o
> In file included from ./include/linux/printk.h:331,
> from ./include/linux/kernel.h:15,
> from ./include/linux/list.h:9,
> from ./include/linux/wait.h:7,
> from ./include/linux/eventfd.h:13,
> from drivers/vhost/vhost.c:13:
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c: In function âfetch_descsâ:
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c:2330:56: error: âstruct vhost_virtqueueâ has no member named âfirst_descâ
> 2330 | vq, vq->last_avail_idx, vq->avail_idx, vq->ndescs, vq->first_desc);
> | ^~
> ./include/linux/dynamic_debug.h:125:15: note: in definition of macro â__dynamic_func_callâ
> 125 | func(&id, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> ./include/linux/dynamic_debug.h:153:2: note: in expansion of macro â_dynamic_func_callâ
> 153 | _dynamic_func_call(fmt, __dynamic_pr_debug, \
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./include/linux/printk.h:335:2: note: in expansion of macro âdynamic_pr_debugâ
> 335 | dynamic_pr_debug(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c:2328:2: note: in expansion of macro âpr_debugâ
> 2328 | pr_debug(
> | ^~~~~~~~
> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:266: drivers/vhost/vhost.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:503: drivers/vhost] Error 2
>

Sorry about that. Here is the right patch.