Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753986AbbDNJV0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2015 05:21:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60679 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752323AbbDNJVP (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2015 05:21:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:21:11 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Cornelia Huck Cc: Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] virtio_balloon: virtio 1 support Message-ID: <20150414103036-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1427884468-23930-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <20150412170141-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <87h9sjtsvb.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20150414102438.11d12347.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150414102438.11d12347.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5962 Lines: 161 On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:24:38AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:42:56 +0930 > Rusty Russell wrote: > > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 02:57:35PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > >> Virtio 1.0 doesn't include a modern balloon device. At some point we'll likely > > >> define an incompatible interface with a different ID and different > > >> semantics. But for now, it's not a big effort to support a transitional > > >> balloon device: this has the advantage of supporting existing drivers, > > >> transparently, as well as transports that don't allow mixing virtio 0 and > > >> virtio 1 devices. And balloon is an easy device to test, so it's also useful > > >> for people to test virtio core handling of transitional devices. > > >> > > >> The only interface issue is with the stats buffer, which has misaligned > > >> fields. We could leave it as is, but this sets a bad precedent that > > >> others might copy by mistake. > > >> > > >> As we need to change stats code to do byteswaps for virtio 1.0, it seems easy > > >> to fix by prepending a 6 byte reserved field. I also had to change config > > >> structure field types from __le32 to __u32 to match other devices. This means > > >> we need a couple of __force tags for legacy path but that seems minor. > > > > > > Rusty, what are your thoughts here? > > > How about merging this for 4.1? > > > > I disagree with making any changes, other than allowing it to be used > > with VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1. > > > > However it doesn't seem to bother anyone else, so I've applied it for > > 4.1. > > I'm still not really convinced about the stats change either, FWIW. > Still time to reconsider? > > And should we perhaps wait with merging until > the spec change allowing version 1 has been accepted? That's not how we did this historically: we require all parts (spec,qemu,linux) to be available, but don't create specific order between them. In particular, I'd strongly prefer not waiting until 4.2, that would interfere with putting virtio 1 out to use in the field. Since both Rusty and Cornelia are against virtio_balloon_stat_modern, I accept this as the majority decision. And switching over to __virtio tags found a bug, so I'm convinced now. ---> virtio_balloon: drop virtio_balloon_stat_modern Looks like we are better off sticking with the misaligned stat struct, to reduce the amount of virtio 1 specific code in balloon. So let's do it. Add a detailed comment to reduce the chance people copy this bad example. This also fixes a bug on BE architectures: tag should use cpu_to_le16, not cpu_to_le32. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin ---- diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h index f81b220..164e0c2 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h @@ -52,15 +52,31 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config { #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT 5 /* Total amount of memory */ #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR 6 +/* + * Memory statistics structure. + * Driver fills an array of these structures and passes to device. + * + * NOTE: fields are laid out in a way that would make compiler add padding + * between and after fields, so we have to use compiler-specific attributes to + * pack it, to disable this padding. This also often causes compiler to + * generate suboptimal code. + * + * We maintain this for backwards compatibility, but don't follow this example. + * + * Do something like the below instead: + * struct virtio_balloon_stat { + * __virtio16 tag; + * __u8 reserved[6]; + * __virtio64 val; + * }; + * + * In other words, add explicit reserved fields to align field and + * structure boundaries at field size, avoiding compiler padding + * without the packed attribute. + */ struct virtio_balloon_stat { - __u16 tag; - __u64 val; + __virtio16 tag; + __virtio64 val; } __attribute__((packed)); -struct virtio_balloon_stat_modern { - __le16 tag; - __u8 reserved[6]; - __le64 val; -}; - #endif /* _LINUX_VIRTIO_BALLOON_H */ diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c index 0583720..9db546e 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -77,10 +77,7 @@ struct virtio_balloon { /* Memory statistics */ int need_stats_update; - union { - struct virtio_balloon_stat_modern stats[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR]; - struct virtio_balloon_stat legacy_stats[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR]; - }; + struct virtio_balloon_stat stats[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR]; /* To register callback in oom notifier call chain */ struct notifier_block nb; @@ -93,10 +90,7 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = { static void stats_sg_init(struct virtio_balloon *vb, struct scatterlist *sg) { - if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) - sg_init_one(sg, vb->stats, sizeof(vb->stats)); - else - sg_init_one(sg, vb->legacy_stats, sizeof(vb->legacy_stats)); + sg_init_one(sg, vb->stats, sizeof(vb->stats)); } static u32 page_to_balloon_pfn(struct page *page) @@ -225,13 +219,8 @@ static inline void update_stat(struct virtio_balloon *vb, int idx, u16 tag, u64 val) { BUG_ON(idx >= VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR); - if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) { - vb->stats[idx].tag = cpu_to_le32(tag); - vb->stats[idx].val = cpu_to_le64(val); - } else { - vb->legacy_stats[idx].tag = tag; - vb->legacy_stats[idx].val = val; - } + vb->stats[idx].tag = cpu_to_virtio16(vb->vdev, tag); + vb->stats[idx].val = cpu_to_virtio64(vb->vdev, val); } #define pages_to_bytes(x) ((u64)(x) << PAGE_SHIFT) -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/