If device is removal is initiated by two threads as below, mdev core
attempts to create a syfs remove file on stale device.
During this flow, below [1] call trace is observed.
cpu-0 cpu-1
----- -----
mdev_unregister_device()
device_for_each_child
mdev_device_remove_cb
mdev_device_remove
user_syscall
remove_store()
mdev_device_remove()
[..]
unregister device();
/* not found in list or
* active=false.
*/
sysfs_create_file()
..Call trace
Now that mdev core follows correct device removal sequence of the linux
bus model, remove shouldn't fail in normal cases. If it fails, there is
no point of creating a stale file or checking for specific error status.
kernel: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 9348 at fs/sysfs/file.c:327
sysfs_create_file_ns+0x7f/0x90
kernel: CPU: 2 PID: 9348 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted
5.1.0-rc6-vdevbus+ #6
kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-6028U-TR4+/X10DRU-i+, BIOS 2.0b
08/09/2016
kernel: RIP: 0010:sysfs_create_file_ns+0x7f/0x90
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: remove_store+0xdc/0x100 [mdev]
kernel: kernfs_fop_write+0x113/0x1a0
kernel: vfs_write+0xad/0x1b0
kernel: ksys_write+0x5a/0xe0
kernel: do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x210
kernel: entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
This patch addresses below two issues and prepares the code to address
3rd issue listed below.
1. mdev device is placed on the mdev bus before it is created in the
vendor driver. Once a device is placed on the mdev bus without creating
its supporting underlying vendor device, mdev driver's probe() gets
triggered. However there isn't a stable mdev available to work on.
create_store()
mdev_create_device()
device_register()
...
vfio_mdev_probe()
[...]
parent->ops->create()
vfio_ap_mdev_create()
mdev_set_drvdata(mdev, matrix_mdev);
/* Valid pointer set above */
Due to this way of initialization, mdev driver who wants to use the mdev,
doesn't have a valid mdev to work on.
2. Current creation sequence is,
parent->ops_create()
groups_register()
Remove sequence is,
parent->ops->remove()
groups_unregister()
However, remove sequence should be exact mirror of creation sequence.
Once this is achieved, all users of the mdev will be terminated first
before removing underlying vendor device.
(Follow standard linux driver model).
At that point vendor's remove() ops shouldn't fail because taking the
device off the bus should terminate any usage.
3. When remove operation fails, mdev sysfs removal attempts to add the
file back on already removed device. Following call trace [1] is observed.
[1] call trace:
kernel: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 9348 at fs/sysfs/file.c:327 sysfs_create_file_ns+0x7f/0x90
kernel: CPU: 2 PID: 9348 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.1.0-rc6-vdevbus+ #6
kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-6028U-TR4+/X10DRU-i+, BIOS 2.0b 08/09/2016
kernel: RIP: 0010:sysfs_create_file_ns+0x7f/0x90
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: remove_store+0xdc/0x100 [mdev]
kernel: kernfs_fop_write+0x113/0x1a0
kernel: vfs_write+0xad/0x1b0
kernel: ksys_write+0x5a/0xe0
kernel: do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x210
kernel: entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
Therefore, mdev core is improved in following ways.
1. Split the device registration/deregistration sequence so that some
things can be done between initialization of the device and hooking it
up to the bus respectively after deregistering it from the bus but
before giving up our final reference.
In particular, this means invoking the ->create() and ->remove()
callbacks in those new windows. This gives the vendor driver an
initialized mdev device to work with during creation.
At the same time, a bus driver who wish to bind to mdev driver also
gets initialized mdev device.
This follows standard Linux kernel bus and device model.
2. During remove flow, first remove the device from the bus. This
ensures that any bus specific devices are removed.
Once device is taken off the mdev bus, invoke remove() of mdev
from the vendor driver.
3. The driver core device model provides way to register and auto
unregister the device sysfs attribute groups at dev->groups.
Make use of dev->groups to let core create the groups and eliminate
code to avoid explicit groups creation and removal.
To ensure, that new sequence is solid, a below stack dump of a
process is taken who attempts to remove the device while device is in
use by vfio driver and user application.
This stack dump validates that vfio driver guards against such device
removal when device is in use.
cat /proc/21962/stack
[<0>] vfio_del_group_dev+0x216/0x3c0 [vfio]
[<0>] mdev_remove+0x21/0x40 [mdev]
[<0>] device_release_driver_internal+0xe8/0x1b0
[<0>] bus_remove_device+0xf9/0x170
[<0>] device_del+0x168/0x350
[<0>] mdev_device_remove_common+0x1d/0x50 [mdev]
[<0>] mdev_device_remove+0x8c/0xd0 [mdev]
[<0>] remove_store+0x71/0x90 [mdev]
[<0>] kernfs_fop_write+0x113/0x1a0
[<0>] vfs_write+0xad/0x1b0
[<0>] ksys_write+0x5a/0xe0
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x210
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
[<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff
This prepares the code to eliminate calling device_create_file() in
subsequent patch.
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
mdev_remove_sysfs_files() should follow exact mirror sequence of a
create, similar to what is followed in error unwinding path of
mdev_create_sysfs_files().
Fixes: 6a62c1dfb5 ("vfio/mdev: Re-order sysfs attribute creation")
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
There are new types and helpers that are supposed to be used in new code.
As a preparation to get rid of legacy types and API functions do
the conversion here.
Cc: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Set add_mdev_supported_type as static since it is only used within
mdev_sysfs.c. This fixes -Wmissing-prototypes gcc warning.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Cretaro <paolocretaro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
There exists a gap at the end of mdev_device_create() where the device
is visible to userspace, but we're not yet ready to handle removal, as
triggered through the 'remove' attribute. We handle this properly in
mdev_device_remove() with an -EAGAIN return, but we can marginally
reduce this gap by adding this attribute as a final step of our sysfs
setup.
Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Add an mdev_ prefix so we're not poluting the namespace so much.
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Jike Song <jike.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Reviewed by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Design for Mediated Device Driver:
Main purpose of this driver is to provide a common interface for mediated
device management that can be used by different drivers of different
devices.
This module provides a generic interface to create the device, add it to
mediated bus, add device to IOMMU group and then add it to vfio group.
Below is the high Level block diagram, with Nvidia, Intel and IBM devices
as example, since these are the devices which are going to actively use
this module as of now.
+---------------+
| |
| +-----------+ | mdev_register_driver() +--------------+
| | | +<------------------------+ __init() |
| | mdev | | | |
| | bus | +------------------------>+ |<-> VFIO user
| | driver | | probe()/remove() | vfio_mdev.ko | APIs
| | | | | |
| +-----------+ | +--------------+
| |
| MDEV CORE |
| MODULE |
| mdev.ko |
| +-----------+ | mdev_register_device() +--------------+
| | | +<------------------------+ |
| | | | | nvidia.ko |<-> physical
| | | +------------------------>+ | device
| | | | callback +--------------+
| | Physical | |
| | device | | mdev_register_device() +--------------+
| | interface | |<------------------------+ |
| | | | | i915.ko |<-> physical
| | | +------------------------>+ | device
| | | | callback +--------------+
| | | |
| | | | mdev_register_device() +--------------+
| | | +<------------------------+ |
| | | | | ccw_device.ko|<-> physical
| | | +------------------------>+ | device
| | | | callback +--------------+
| +-----------+ |
+---------------+
Core driver provides two types of registration interfaces:
1. Registration interface for mediated bus driver:
/**
* struct mdev_driver - Mediated device's driver
* @name: driver name
* @probe: called when new device created
* @remove:called when device removed
* @driver:device driver structure
*
**/
struct mdev_driver {
const char *name;
int (*probe) (struct device *dev);
void (*remove) (struct device *dev);
struct device_driver driver;
};
Mediated bus driver for mdev device should use this interface to register
and unregister with core driver respectively:
int mdev_register_driver(struct mdev_driver *drv, struct module *owner);
void mdev_unregister_driver(struct mdev_driver *drv);
Mediated bus driver is responsible to add/delete mediated devices to/from
VFIO group when devices are bound and unbound to the driver.
2. Physical device driver interface
This interface provides vendor driver the set APIs to manage physical
device related work in its driver. APIs are :
* dev_attr_groups: attributes of the parent device.
* mdev_attr_groups: attributes of the mediated device.
* supported_type_groups: attributes to define supported type. This is
mandatory field.
* create: to allocate basic resources in vendor driver for a mediated
device. This is mandatory to be provided by vendor driver.
* remove: to free resources in vendor driver when mediated device is
destroyed. This is mandatory to be provided by vendor driver.
* open: open callback of mediated device
* release: release callback of mediated device
* read : read emulation callback.
* write: write emulation callback.
* ioctl: ioctl callback.
* mmap: mmap emulation callback.
Drivers should use these interfaces to register and unregister device to
mdev core driver respectively:
extern int mdev_register_device(struct device *dev,
const struct parent_ops *ops);
extern void mdev_unregister_device(struct device *dev);
There are no locks to serialize above callbacks in mdev driver and
vfio_mdev driver. If required, vendor driver can have locks to serialize
above APIs in their driver.
Signed-off-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jike Song <jike.song@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
