Re: [PATCH 0/2] a couple of corrections to the IRQ enablement function

From: Tony Krowiak
Date: Fri Sep 15 2023 - 10:04:22 EST




On 9/13/23 14:13, Matthew Rosato wrote:
On 9/13/23 9:06 AM, Tony Krowiak wrote:
This series corrects two issues related to enablement of interrupts in
response to interception of the PQAP(AQIC) command:

1. Returning a status response code 06 (Invalid address of AP-queue
notification byte) when the call to register a guest ISC fails makes no
sense.
2. The pages containing the interrupt notification-indicator byte are not
freed after a failure to register the guest ISC fails.


Hi Tony,

3. Since you're already making changes related to gisc registration, you might consider a 3rd patch that looks at the return code for kvm_s390_gisc_unregister and tags the unexpected error rc somehow. This came up in a recent conversation I had with Michael, see this conversation towards the bottom:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-s390/0ddf808c-e929-c975-1b39-5ebc1f2fab62@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

When we receive a non-zero return code from kvm_s390_gisc_register, we log a DBF warning message. We can do the same for a non-zero rc from kvm_s390_gisc_unregister.


4. While looking at patch 1 I also had a question re: the AP_RESPONSE_OTHERWISE_CHANGED path in vfio_ap_irq_enable. Here's a snippet of the current code:

case AP_RESPONSE_OTHERWISE_CHANGED:
/* We could not modify IRQ settings: clear new configuration */
vfio_unpin_pages(&q->matrix_mdev->vdev, nib, 1);
kvm_s390_gisc_unregister(kvm, isc);
break;

Is it safe to unpin the page before unregistering the gisc in this case? Or shouldn't the unpin happen after we have unregistered the gisc / set the IAM?

I don't know the answer to the question, but it makes logical sense; so, I'll go ahead and create a third patch as you suggested.


Anthony Krowiak (2):
s390/vfio-ap: unpin pages on gisc registration failure
s390/vfio-ap: set status response code to 06 on gisc registration
failure

drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)