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Roland Dreier 9c58b7ddd7 target: Simplify fabric sense data length handling
Every fabric driver has to supply a se_tfo->set_fabric_sense_len()
method, just so iSCSI can return an offset of 2.  However, every fabric
driver is already allocating a sense buffer and passing it into the
target core, either via transport_init_se_cmd() or target_submit_cmd().

So instead of having iSCSI pass the start of its sense buffer into the
core and then later tell the core to skip the first 2 bytes, it seems
easier for iSCSI just to do the offset of 2 when it passes the sense
buffer into the core.  Then we can drop the se_tfo->set_fabric_sense_len()
everywhere, and just add a couple of lines of code to iSCSI to set the
sense data length to the beginning of the buffer right before it sends
it over the network.

(nab: Remove .set_fabric_sense_len usage from tcm_qla2xxx_npiv_ops +
      change transport_get_sense_buffer to follow v3.6-rc6 code w/o
      ->set_fabric_sense_len usage)

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-09-17 17:12:58 -07:00
Roland Dreier 2ed772b7b9 target: Remove unused target_core_fabric_ops.get_fabric_sense_len method
There are no callers of se_tfo->get_fabric_sense_len(), so we should
stop having every fabric driver implement it.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-09-17 16:15:47 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 6de7145ca3 tcm_vhost: Fix vhost_scsi_target structure alignment
Here TRANSPORT_IQN_LEN is 224, which is a multiple of 4.
Since vhost_tpgt is 2 bytes and abi_version is 4, the total size would
be 230.  But gcc needs struct size be aligned to first field size, which
is 4 bytes, so it pads the structure by extra 2 bytes to the total of
232.

This padding is very undesirable in an ABI:
- it can not be initialized easily
- it can not be checked easily
- it can leak information between kernel and userspace

Simplest solution is probably just to make the padding
explicit.

(v2: Add check for zero'ed backend->reserved field for VHOST_SCSI_SET_ENDPOINT
     and VHOST_SCSI_CLEAR_ENDPOINT ops as requested by MST)

Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-08-20 14:52:11 -07:00
Nicholas Bellinger 5b7517f814 tcm_vhost: Change vhost_scsi_target->vhost_wwpn to char *
This patch changes the vhost_scsi_target->vhost_wwpn[] type used
by VHOST_SCSI_* ioctls to 'char *' as requested by Blue Swirl in
order to match the latest QEMU vhost-scsi RFC-v3 userspace code.

Queuing this up into target-pending/master for a -rc3 PULL.

Reported-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-08-16 19:03:13 -07:00
Nicholas Bellinger 101998f6fc tcm_vhost: Post-merge review changes requested by MST
This patch contains the post RFC-v5 (post-merge) changes, this includes:

- Add locking comment
- Move vhost_scsi_complete_cmd ahead of TFO callbacks in order to
  drop forward declarations
- Drop extra '!= NULL' usage in vhost_scsi_complete_cmd_work()
- Change vhost_scsi_*_handle_kick() to use pr_debug
- Fix possible race in vhost_scsi_set_endpoint() for vs->vs_tpg checking
  + assignment.
- Convert tv_tpg->tpg_vhost_count + ->tv_tpg_port_count from atomic_t ->
  int, and make sure reference is protected by ->tv_tpg_mutex.
- Drop unnecessary vhost_scsi->vhost_ref_cnt
- Add 'err:' label for exception path in vhost_scsi_clear_endpoint()
- Add enum for VQ numbers, add usage in vhost_scsi_open()
- Add vhost_scsi_flush() + vhost_scsi_flush_vq() following
  drivers/vhost/net.c
- Add smp_wmb() + vhost_scsi_flush() call during vhost_scsi_set_features()
- Drop unnecessary copy_from_user() usage with GET_ABI_VERSION ioctl
- Add missing vhost_scsi_compat_ioctl() caller for vhost_scsi_fops
- Fix function parameter definition first line to follow existing
  vhost code style
- Change 'vHost' usage -> 'vhost' in handful of locations
- Change -EPERM -> -EBUSY usage for two failures in tcm_vhost_drop_nexus()
- Add comment for tcm_vhost_workqueue in tcm_vhost_init()
- Make GET_ABI_VERSION return 'int' + add comment in tcm_vhost.h

Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-08-16 17:33:40 -07:00
Fengguang Wu f0e0e9bba5 tcm_vhost: Fix incorrect IS_ERR() usage in vhost_scsi_map_iov_to_sgl
Fix up a new coccinelle warnings reported by Fengguang Wu + Intel
0-DAY kernel build testing backend:

drivers/vhost/tcm_vhost.c:537:23-29: ERROR: allocation function on line
533 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure

vim +537 drivers/vhost/tcm_vhost.c
   534          if (!sg)
   535                  return -ENOMEM;
   536          pr_debug("%s sg %p sgl_count %u is_err %ld\n", __func__,
 > 537                 sg, sgl_count, IS_ERR(sg));
   538          sg_init_table(sg, sgl_count);
   539
   540          tv_cmd->tvc_sgl = sg;

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-08-16 17:33:28 -07:00
Nicholas Bellinger 057cbf49a1 tcm_vhost: Initial merge for vhost level target fabric driver
This patch adds the initial code for tcm_vhost, a Vhost level TCM
fabric driver for virtio SCSI initiators into KVM guest.

This code is currently up and running on v3.5-rc2 host+guest
from target-pending/for-next-merge.

Using tcm_vhost requires Zhi's -> Stefan -> nab's qemu vhost-scsi tree here:

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/nab/qemu-kvm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/vhost-scsi

--

Changelog v4 -> v5:

  Expose ABI version via VHOST_SCSI_GET_ABI_VERSION + use Rev 0 as
  starting point for v3.6-rc code (Stefan + ALiguori + nab)
  Convert vhost_scsi_handle_vq() to vq_err() (nab + MST)
  Minor style fixes from checkpatch (nab)

Changelog v3 -> v4:

  Rename vhost_vring_target -> vhost_scsi_target (mst + nab)
  Use TRANSPORT_IQN_LEN in vhost_scsi_target->vhost_wwpn[] def (nab)
  Move back to drivers/vhost/, and just use drivers/vhost/Kconfig.tcm (mst)
  Move TCM_VHOST related ioctl defines from include/linux/vhost.h ->
  drivers/vhost/tcm_vhost.h as requested by MST (nab)
  Move Kbuild.tcm include from drivers/staging -> drivers/vhost/, and
  just use 'if STAGING' around 'source drivers/vhost/Kbuild.tcm'

Changelog v2 -> v3:

  Unlock on error in tcm_vhost_drop_nexus() (DanC)
  Fix strlen() doesn't count the terminator (DanC)
  Call kfree() on an error path (DanC)
  Convert tcm_vhost_write_pending to use target_execute_cmd (hch + nab)
  Fix another strlen() off by one in tcm_vhost_make_tport (DanC)
  Add option under drivers/staging/Kconfig, and move to drivers/vhost/tcm/
  as requested by MST (nab)

Changelog v1 -> v2:

  Fix tv_cmd completion -> release SGL memory leak (nab)
  Fix sparse warnings for static variable usage ((Fengguang Wu)
  Fix sparse warnings for min() typing + printk format specs (Fengguang Wu)
  Convert to cmwq submission for I/O dispatch (nab + hch)

Changelog v0 -> v1:

  Merge into single source + header file, and move to drivers/vhost/

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-07-29 13:49:10 -07:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 163049aefd vhost: make vhost work queue visible
The vhost work queue allows processing to be done in vhost worker thread
context, which uses the owner process mm.  Access to the vring and guest
memory is typically only possible from vhost worker context so it is
useful to allow work to be queued directly by users.

Currently vhost_net only uses the poll wrappers which do not expose the
work queue functions.  However, for tcm_vhost (vhost_scsi) it will be
necessary to queue custom work.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-07-22 01:22:23 +03:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 0dd05a3b60 vhost: Separate vhost-net features from vhost features
In order for other vhost devices to use the VHOST_FEATURES bits the
vhost-net specific bits need to be moved to their own VHOST_NET_FEATURES
constant.

(Asias: Update drivers/vhost/test.c to use VHOST_NET_FEATURES)

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-07-22 01:21:53 +03:00
Jens Freimann d7ffde35e3 vhost: use USER_DS in vhost_worker thread
On some architectures address spaces are set up in a way that this is
not necessary to work properly but on some others (like s390) it is.
Make sure we operate on the user address space to allow copy_xxx_user()
from the vhost_worker() thread by setting it explicitly before calling
use_mm() and revert it after unuse_mm().

Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfrei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-26 21:10:56 -07:00
David S. Miller 028940342a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-05-16 22:17:37 -04:00
Basil Gor c53cff5e42 vhost-net: fix handle_rx buffer size
Take vlan header length into account, when vlan id is stored as
vlan_tci. Otherwise tagged packets coming from macvtap will be
truncated.

Signed-off-by: Basil Gor <basil.gor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-11 18:16:57 -04:00
Jason Wang c70aa540c7 vhost: zerocopy: poll vq in zerocopy callback
We add used and signal guest in worker thread but did not poll the virtqueue
during the zero copy callback. This may lead the missing of adding and
signalling during zerocopy. Solve this by polling the virtqueue and let it
wakeup the worker during callback.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 18:22:25 +03:00
Jason Wang c8fb217af5 vhost_net: zerocopy: adding and signalling immediately when fully copied
When a packet were fully copied in zerocopy, we don't wait for the DMA done to
mark the done flag, so after the packet were passed to lower device, we need to
add used and signal guest immediately.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 18:22:24 +03:00
Jason Wang dbf34207c6 vhost_net: re-poll only on EAGAIN or ENOBUFS
Currently, we restart tx polling unconditionally when sendmsg()
fails. This would cause unnecessary wakeups of vhost wokers and waste
cpu utlization when evil userspace(guest driver) is able to hit EFAULT or
EINVAL.

The polling is only needed when the socket send buffer were exceeded or not
enough memory. So fix this by restarting polling only when sendmsg() returns
EAGAIN/ENOBUFS.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 18:22:24 +03:00
Jason Wang c460f05739 vhost_net: zerocopy: fix possible NULL pointer dereference of vq->bufs
When we want to disable vhost_net backend while there's a tx work, a possible
NULL pointer defernece may happen we we try to deference the vq->bufs after
vhost_net_set_backend() assign a NULL to it.

As suggested by Michael, fix this by checking the vq->bufs instead of
vhost_sock_zcopy().

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 18:22:22 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 7e29629543 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix namespace init and cleanup in phonet to fix some oopses, from
    Eric W. Biederman.

 2) Missing kfree_skb() in AF_KEY, from Julia Lawall.

 3) Refcount leak and source address handling fix in l2tp from James
    Chapman.

 4) Memory leak fix in CAIF from Tomasz Gregorek.

 5) When routes are cloned from ipv6 addrconf routes, we don't process
    expirations properly.  Fix from Gao Feng.

 6) Fix panic on DMA errors in atl1 driver, from Tony Zelenoff.

 7) Only enable interrupts in 8139cp driver after we've registered the
    IRQ handler.  From Jason Wang.

 8) Fix too many reads of KS_CIDER register in ks8851 during probe,
    fixing crashes on spurious interrupts.  From Matt Renzelmann.

 9) Missing include in ath5k driver and missing iounmap on probe
    failure, from Jonathan Bither.

10) Fix RX packet handling in smsc911x driver, from Will Deacon.

11) Fix ixgbe WoL on fiber by leaving the laser on during shutdown.

12) ks8851 needs MAX_RECV_FRAMES increased otherwise the internal MAC
    buffers are easily overflown.  Fix from Davide Cimingahi.

13) Fix memory leaks in peak_usb CAN driver, from Jesper Juhl.

14) gred packet scheduler can dump in WRED more when doing a netlink
    dump.  Fix from David Ward.

15) Fix MTU in USB smsc75xx driver, from Stephane Fillod.

16) Dummy device needs ->ndo_uninit handler to properly handle
    ->ndo_init failures.  From Hiroaki SHIMODA.

17) Fix TX fragmentation in ath9k driver, from Sujith Manoharan.

18) Missing RTNL lock in ixgbe PM resume, from Benjamin Poirier.

19) Missing iounmap in farsync WAN driver, from Julia Lawall.

20) With LRO/GRO, tcp_grow_window() is easily tricked into not growing
    the receive window properly, and this hurts performance.  Fix from
    Eric Dumazet.

21) Network namespace init failure can leak net_generic data, fix from
    Julian Anastasov.

22) Fix skb_over_panic due to mis-accounting in TCP for partially ACK'd
    SKBs.  From Eric Dumazet.

23) New IDs for qmi_wwan driver, from Bjørn Mork.

24) Fix races in ax25_exit(), from Eric W. Biederman.

25) IPV6 TCP doesn't handle TCP_MAXSEG socket option properly, copy over
    logic from the IPV4 side.  From Neal Cardwell.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (59 commits)
  tcp: fix TCP_MAXSEG for established IPv6 passive sockets
  drivers/net: Do not free an IRQ if its request failed
  drop_monitor: allow more events per second
  ks8851: Fix request_irq/free_irq mismatch
  net/hyperv: Adding cancellation to ensure rndis filter is closed
  ks8851: Fix mutex deadlock in ks8851_net_stop()
  net ax25: Reorder ax25_exit to remove races.
  icplus: fix interrupt for IC+ 101A/G and 1001LF
  net: qmi_wwan: support Sierra Wireless MC77xx devices in QMI mode
  bnx2x: off by one in bnx2x_ets_e3b0_sp_pri_to_cos_set()
  ksz884x: don't copy too much in netdev_set_mac_address()
  tcp: fix retransmit of partially acked frames
  netns: do not leak net_generic data on failed init
  net/sock.h: fix sk_peek_off kernel-doc warning
  tcp: fix tcp_grow_window() for large incoming frames
  drivers/net/wan/farsync.c: add missing iounmap
  davinci_mdio: Fix MDIO timeout check
  ipv6: clean up rt6_clean_expires
  ipv6: fix rt6_update_expires
  arcnet: rimi: Fix device name in debug output
  ...
2012-04-22 21:02:57 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin ca8f4fb21d skbuff: struct ubuf_info callback type safety
The skb struct ubuf_info callback gets passed struct ubuf_info
itself, not the arg value as the field name and the function signature
seem to imply. Rename the arg field to ctx to match usage,
add documentation and change the callback argument type
to make usage clear and to have compiler check correctness.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-13 13:09:19 -04:00
Zhi Yong Wu 5e7045b010 tools/virtio: fix up vhost/test module build
commit ea5d404655
broke build for the vhost test module used
by tools/virtio. Fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-12 10:35:42 +03:00
David S. Miller f1e84eb3bb Merge branch 'vhost-net' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost 2012-03-23 14:46:48 -04:00
Cong Wang c6daa7ffa8 vhost: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20 21:48:21 +08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin ea5d404655 vhost: fix release path lockdep checks
We shouldn't hold any locks on release path. Pass a flag to
vhost_dev_cleanup to use the lockdep info correctly.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
2012-02-28 09:13:22 +02:00
Nadav Har'El d550dda192 vhost: don't forget to schedule()
This is a tiny, but important, patch to vhost.

Vhost's worker thread only called schedule() when it had no work to do, and
it wanted to go to sleep. But if there's always work to do, e.g., the guest
is running a network-intensive program like netperf with small message sizes,
schedule() was *never* called. This had several negative implications (on
non-preemptive kernels):

 1. Passing time was not properly accounted to the "vhost" process (ps and
    top would wrongly show it using zero CPU time).

 2. Sometimes error messages about RCU timeouts would be printed, if the
    core running the vhost thread didn't schedule() for a very long time.

 3. Worst of all, a vhost thread would "hog" the core. If several vhost
    threads need to share the same core, typically one would get most of the
    CPU time (and its associated guest most of the performance), while the
    others hardly get any work done.

The trivial solution is to add

	if (need_resched())
		schedule();

After doing every piece of work. This will not do the heavy schedule() all
the time, just when the timer interrupt decided a reschedule is warranted
(so need_resched returns true).

Thanks to Abel Gordon for this patch.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-02-28 09:13:19 +02:00
stephen hemminger 7c7c7f01cc vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)
By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly
call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel.
It does require assigning a permanent minor number for depmod to work.

Also:
  - use C99 style initialization.
  - add missing entry in documentation for loop-control

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-13 10:12:23 -08:00
Arun Sharma 60063497a9 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
Shirley Ma 9e380825ab vhost: handle wrap around in # of bufs math
The meth for calculating the # of outstanding buffers gives
incorrect results when vq->upend_idx wraps around zero.
Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-21 10:48:27 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin c047e5f317 vhost-net: update used ring on backend change
On backend change, we flushed out outstanding skbs
but forgot to update the used ring, so that
done entries were left in the ubuf_info ring.
As a result we lose heads or complete incorrect ones,
crashing the guest or leaking memory.
Fix by updating the used ring.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-21 10:23:31 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin b834226b04 vhost: optimize interrupt enable/disable
As we now only update used ring after enabling
the backend, we can write flags with __put_user:
as that's done on data path, it matters.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-19 17:17:28 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 75fd9edc10 vhost: fix zcopy reference counting
Fix get/put refcount imbalance with zero copy,
which caused qemu to hang forever on guest driver unload.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-19 13:28:34 +03:00
Jason Wang 2723feaa8e vhost: set log when updating used flags or avail event
We need to log writes when updating used flags and avail event
fields.  Otherwise the guest may see a stale value after migration and
miss notifying the host.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-19 13:28:34 +03:00
Jason Wang f59281dafb vhost: init used ring after backend was set
Move the used ring initialization after backend was set. This
makes it possible to disable the backend and tweak the used ring,
then restart. This will also make it possible to log the used ring
write correctly.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-19 13:28:34 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin bab632d69e vhost: vhost TX zero-copy support
>From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>

This adds experimental zero copy support in vhost-net,
disabled by default. To enable, set
experimental_zcopytx module option to 1.

This patch maintains the outstanding userspace buffers in the
sequence it is delivered to vhost. The outstanding userspace buffers
will be marked as done once the lower device buffers DMA has finished.
This is monitored through last reference of kfree_skb callback. Two
buffer indices are used for this purpose.

The vhost-net device passes the userspace buffers info to lower device
skb through message control. DMA done status check and guest
notification are handled by handle_tx: in the worst case is all buffers
in the vq are in pending/done status, so we need to notify guest to
release DMA done buffers first before we get any new buffers from the
vq.

One known problem is that if the guest stops submitting
buffers, buffers might never get used until some
further action, e.g. device reset. This does not
seem to affect linux guests.

Signed-off-by: Shirley <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-18 10:42:32 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 8ea8cf89e1 vhost: support event index
Support the new event index feature. When acked,
utilize it to reduce the # of interrupts sent to the guest.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-30 11:14:15 +09:30
Rob Landley 6151658751 Correct occurrences of
- Documentation/kvm/ to Documentation/virtual/kvm
- Documentation/uml/ to Documentation/virtual/uml
- Documentation/lguest/ to Documentation/virtual/lguest
throughout the kernel source tree.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2011-05-06 09:27:55 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin de4d768a42 vhost-net: remove unlocked use of receive_queue
Use of skb_queue_empty(&sock->sk->sk_receive_queue)
without taking the sk_receive_queue.lock is unsafe
or useless. Take it out.

Reported-by:  Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-03-13 23:08:19 +02:00
Jason Wang 783e398854 vhost: lock receive queue, not the socket
vhost takes a sock lock to try and prevent
the skb from being pulled from the receive queue
after skb_peek.  However this is not the right lock to use for that,
sk_receive_queue.lock is. Fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-03-13 23:08:04 +02:00
Jason Wang 94249369e9 vhost-net: Unify the code of mergeable and big buffer handling
Codes duplication were found between the handling of mergeable and big
buffers, so this patch tries to unify them. This could be easily done
by adding a quota to the get_rx_bufs() which is used to limit the
number of buffers it returns (for mergeable buffer, the quota is
simply UIO_MAXIOV, for big buffers, the quota is just 1), and then the
previous handle_rx_mergeable() could be resued also for big buffers.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-03-13 17:00:10 +02:00
Jason Wang cfbdab9513 vhost-net: check the support of mergeable buffer outside the receive loop
No need to check the support of mergeable buffer inside the recevie
loop as the whole handle_rx()_xx is in the read critical region.  So
this patch move it ahead of the receiving loop.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-03-13 16:57:30 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin fcc042a280 vhost: copy_from_user -> __copy_from_user
copy_from_user is pretty high on perf top profile,
replacing it with __copy_from_user helps.
It's also safe because we do access_ok checks during setup.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-03-08 18:03:05 +02:00
Krishna Kumar d47effe1be vhost: Cleanup vhost.c and net.c
Minor cleanup of vhost.c and net.c to match coding style.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-03-08 18:02:47 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 5e18247b02 vhost: rcu annotation fixup
When built with rcu checks enabled, vhost triggers
bogus warnings as vhost features are read without
dev->mutex sometimes, and private pointer is read
with our kind of rcu where work serves as a
read side critical section.

Fixing it properly is not trivial.
Disable the warnings by stubbing out the checks for now.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-02-01 16:48:46 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 0174b0c30a vhost: fix signed/unsigned comparison
To detect that a sequence number is done, we are doing math on unsigned
integers so the result is unsigned too. Not what was intended for the <=
comparison. The result is user stuck forever in flush call.
Convert to int to fix this.

Further, get rid of ({}) to make code clearer.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-01-10 10:03:39 +02:00
David S. Miller 9fe146aef4 Merge branch 'vhost-net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost 2010-12-14 11:33:23 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 71ccc212e5 vhost test module
This adds a test module for vhost infrastructure.
Intentionally not tied to kbuild to prevent people
from installing and loading it accidentally.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 16:00:21 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 28831ee60b vhost: better variable name in logging
We really store a page offset in write_address,
so rename it write_page to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 16:00:10 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 3bf9be40ff vhost: correctly set bits of dirty pages
Fix two bugs in dirty page logging:
When counting pages we should increase address by 1 instead of
VHOST_PAGE_SIZE. Make log_write() correctly process requests
that cross pages with write_address not starting at page boundary.

Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 15:39:17 +02:00
Jason Wang a290aec88a vhost: fix typos in comment
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 15:39:15 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin bf5e0bd27f vhost: remove unused include
vhost.c does not need to know about sockets,
don't include sock.h

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 15:39:13 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 11cd1a8b8c vhost/net: fix rcu check usage
Incorrect rcu check was used as rcu isn't done
under mutex here. Force check to 1 for now,
to stop it from complaining.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-11-25 11:29:16 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 8b7347aab6 vhost: get/put_user -> __get/__put_user
We do access_ok checks on all ring values on an ioctl,
so we don't need to redo them on each access.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-11-04 13:22:12 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin dfe5ac5b18 vhost: copy_to_user -> __copy_to_user
We do access_ok checks at setup time, so we don't need to
redo them on each access.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-11-04 13:22:11 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 64e1c80748 vhost-net: batch use/unuse mm
Move use/unuse mm to vhost.c which makes it possible to batch these
operations.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-11-04 13:22:11 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 533a19b4b8 vhost: put mm after thread stop
makes it possible to batch use/unuse mm

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-11-04 13:22:10 +02:00
Julia Lawall 3fcedec752 drivers/vhost/vhost.c: delete double assignment
Delete successive assignments to the same location.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression i;
@@

*i = ...;
 i = ...;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-10-26 20:39:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 5f05647dd8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits)
  bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL.
  vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid.
  tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip
  tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match
  cxgb3: function namespace cleanup
  tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target
  tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core
  be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w
  tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled
  tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer
  tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function
  tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions
  tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module
  l2tp: small cleanup
  nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header
  can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames
  can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set
  can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic
  9p: client code cleanup
  rds: make local functions/variables static
  ...

Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David
2010-10-23 11:47:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 092e0e7e52 Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl
* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  vfs: make no_llseek the default
  vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
  llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
  libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
  mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
  lirc: make chardev nonseekable
  viotape: use noop_llseek
  raw: use explicit llseek file operations
  ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
  spufs: use llseek in all file operations
  arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
  lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  drm: use noop_llseek
2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
David S. Miller 2198a10b50 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/core/dev.c
2010-10-21 08:43:05 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 6038f373a3 llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
//   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
   *off = E
|
   *off += E
|
   func(..., off, ...)
|
   E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
  *off = E
|
  *off += E
|
  func(..., off, ...)
|
  E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
 ...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
 .read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
Dan Carpenter 6d97e55f71 vhost: fix return code for log_access_ok()
access_ok() returns 1 if it's OK otherwise it should return 0.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-10-12 14:32:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 556ef63255 Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into core/rcu
Merge reason: Update from -rc3 to -rc7.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-07 09:43:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d4f8f217b8 Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu 2010-10-07 09:43:11 +02:00
Jason Wang e0e9b40647 vhost: max s/g to match qemu
Qemu supports up to UIO_MAXIOV s/g so we have to match that because guest
drivers may rely on this.

Allocate indirect and log arrays dynamically to avoid using too much contigious
memory and make the length of hdr array to match the header length since each
iovec entry has a least one byte.

Test with copying large files w/ and w/o migration in both linux and windows
guests.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-10-05 13:33:43 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 5786aee8bf vhost: fix log ctx signalling
The log eventfd signalling got put in dead code.
We didn't notice because qemu currently does polling
instead of eventfd select.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-09-22 16:21:33 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin ee05d6939e vhost-net: fix range checking in mrg bufs case
In mergeable buffer case, we use headcount, log_num
and seg as indexes in same-size arrays, and
we know that headcount <= seg and
log_num equals either 0 or seg.

Therefore, the right thing to do is range-check seg,
not headcount as we do now: these will be different
if guest chains s/g descriptors (this does not
happen now, but we can not trust the guest).

Long term, we should add BUG_ON checks to verify
two other indexes are what we think they should be.

Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-09-14 15:22:41 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 615cc2211c vhost: error handling fix
vhost should set worker to NULL on cgroups attach failure,
so that we won't try to destroy the worker again on close.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-09-06 09:49:39 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 87d6a412bd vhost: fix attach to cgroups regression
Since 2.6.36-rc1, non-root users of vhost-net fail to attach
if they are in any cgroups.

The reason is that when qemu uses vhost, vhost wants to attach
its thread to all cgroups that qemu has.  But we got the API backwards,
so a non-priveledged process (Qemu) tried to control
the priveledged one (vhost), which fails.

Fix this by switching to the new cgroup_attach_task_all,
and running it from the vhost thread.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-09-06 09:49:31 +03:00
Eric Dumazet 78b620ce9e vhost: stop worker only if created
Its currently illegal to call kthread_stop(NULL)

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-01 14:26:13 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 28457ee69c vhost: add __rcu annotations
Also add rcu_dereference_protected() for code paths where locks are held.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
2010-08-21 16:27:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6ba74014c1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1443 commits)
  phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support
  igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init
  e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579
  hso: Add new product ID
  can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device
  l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace
  can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling
  Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue"
  net: cleanup inclusion
  phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support
  u32: negative offset fix
  net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev"
  igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X
  ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0
  e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case
  e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation
  ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice
  net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams
  cxgb4: update driver version
  cxgb4: add new PCI IDs
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration
   infrastructure changes
 - drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support
   and cleaning up the IDs
 - drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req
   conflict (registration change vs marking it static)
2010-08-04 11:47:58 -07:00
David Stevens 8dd014adfe vhost-net: mergeable buffers support
This adds support for mergeable buffers in vhost-net: this is needed
for older guests without indirect buffer support, as well
as for zero copy with some devices.

Includes changes by Michael S. Tsirkin to make the
patch as low risk as possible (i.e., close to no changes
when feature is disabled).

Signed-off-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 15:45:36 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 9e3d195720 vhost: apply cgroup to vhost workers
Apply the cgroup of the owner task to the created vhost worker.

Based on patches from Sridhar Samudrala's and Tejun Heo.
Later we'll need to also apply cpumask and probably priority
of the owner process.

Discussion on the best way to do this is still ongoing.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-28 15:45:18 +03:00
Tejun Heo c23f3445e6 vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread
Replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread.  Other than callback
argument change from struct work_struct * to struct vhost_work *,
there's no visible change to vhost_poll_*() interface.

This conversion is to make each vhost use a dedicated kthread so that
resource control via cgroup can be applied.

Partially based on Sridhar Samudrala's patch.

* Updated to use sub structure vhost_work instead of directly using
  vhost_poll at Michael's suggestion.

* Added flusher wake_up() optimization at Michael's suggestion.

Changes by MST:
* Converted atomics/barrier use to a spinlock.
* Create thread on SET_OWNER
* Fix flushing

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@gmail.com>
2010-07-28 15:44:53 +03:00
David S. Miller 4c3e5edf2f vhost net: Fix warning.
Reported by Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-21 21:09:23 -07:00
David S. Miller 11fe883936 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/vhost/net.c
	net/bridge/br_device.c

Fix merge conflict in drivers/vhost/net.c with guidance from
Stephen Rothwell.

Revert the effects of net-2.6 commit 573201f36f
since net-next-2.6 has fixes that make bridge netpoll work properly thus
we don't need it disabled.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-20 18:25:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 516bd66415 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits)
  bridge: Partially disable netpoll support
  tcp: fix crash in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue
  IPv6: fix CoA check in RH2 input handler (mip6_rthdr_input())
  ibmveth: lost IRQ while closing/opening device leads to service loss
  rt2x00: Fix lockdep warning in rt2x00lib_probe_dev()
  vhost: avoid pr_err on condition guest can trigger
  ipmr: Don't leak memory if fib lookup fails.
  vhost-net: avoid flush under lock
  net: fix problem in reading sock TX queue
  net/core: neighbour update Oops
  net: skb_tx_hash() fix relative to skb_orphan_try()
  rfs: call sock_rps_record_flow() in tcp_splice_read()
  xfrm: do not assume that template resolving always returns xfrms
  hostap_pci: set dev->base_addr during probe
  axnet_cs: use spin_lock_irqsave in ax_interrupt
  dsa: Fix Kconfig dependencies.
  act_nat: not all of the ICMP packets need an IP header payload
  r8169: incorrect identifier for a 8168dp
  Phonet: fix skb leak in pipe endpoint accept()
  Bluetooth: Update sec_level/auth_type for already existing connections
  ...
2010-07-20 16:26:42 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 95c0ec6a97 vhost: avoid pr_err on condition guest can trigger
Guest can trigger packet truncation by posting
a very short buffer and disabling buffer merging.
Convert pr_err to pr_debug to avoid log from filling
up when this happens.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-16 12:18:17 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 1680e9063e vhost-net: avoid flush under lock
We flush under vq mutex when changing backends.
This creates a deadlock as workqueue being flushed
needs this lock as well.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612421

Drop the vq mutex before flush: we have the device mutex
which is sufficient to prevent another ioctl from touching
the vq.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-15 15:26:12 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 2aa72f6121 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (35 commits)
  NET: SB1250: Initialize .owner
  vxge: show startup message with KERN_INFO
  ll_temac: Fix missing iounmaps
  bridge: Clear IPCB before possible entry into IP stack
  bridge br_multicast: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
  net: Fix definition of netif_vdbg() when VERBOSE_DEBUG is defined
  net/ne: fix memory leak in ne_drv_probe()
  xfrm: fix xfrm by MARK logic
  virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx
  virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever
  s2io: resolve statistics issues
  linux/net.h: fix kernel-doc warnings
  net: decreasing real_num_tx_queues needs to flush qdisc
  sched: qdisc_reset_all_tx is calling qdisc_reset without qdisc_lock
  qlge: fix a eeh handler to not add a pending timer
  qlge: Replacing add_timer() to mod_timer()
  usbnet: Set parent device early for netdev_printk()
  net: Revert "rndis_host: Poll status channel before control channel"
  netfilter: ip6t_REJECT: fix a dst leak in ipv6 REJECT
  drivers: bluetooth: bluecard_cs.c: Fixed include error, changed to linux/io.h
  ...
2010-07-07 19:56:00 -07:00
David S. Miller 597e608a84 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-07-07 15:59:38 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 7b3384fc30 vhost: add unlikely annotations to error path
patch 'break out of polling loop on error' caused
a minor performance regression on my machine: recover
that performance by adding a bunch of unlikely annotations
in the error handling.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-01 19:25:40 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin d5675bd204 vhost: break out of polling loop on error
When ring parsing fails, we currently handle this
as ring empty condition. This means that we enable
kicks and recheck ring empty: if this not empty,
we re-start polling which of course will fail again.

Instead, let's return a negative error code and stop polling.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-06-27 11:52:25 +03:00
Alan Cox 79907d89c3 misc: Fix allocation 'borrowed' by vhost_net
10, 233 is allocated officially to /dev/kmview which is shipping in
Ubuntu and Debian distributions.  vhost_net seem to have borrowed it
without making a proper request and this causes regressions in the other
distributions.

vhost_net can use a dynamic minor so use that instead.  Also update the
file with a comment to try and avoid future misunderstandings.

cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@lanana.org>
[ We should have caught this before 2.6.34 got released.  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-09 08:50:31 -07:00
David S. Miller 0dea7c12fc Merge branch 'vhost-net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost 2010-06-02 08:26:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 72da3bc0cb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (22 commits)
  netlink: bug fix: wrong size was calculated for vfinfo list blob
  netlink: bug fix: don't overrun skbs on vf_port dump
  xt_tee: use skb_dst_drop()
  netdev/fec: fix ifconfig eth0 down hang issue
  cnic: Fix context memory init. on 5709.
  drivers/net: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference
  drivers/net/hamradio: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference
  be2net: Patch removes redundant while statement in loop.
  ipv6: Add GSO support on forwarding path
  net: fix __neigh_event_send()
  vhost: fix the memory leak which will happen when memory_access_ok fails
  vhost-net: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly
  vhost: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly
  vhost: Fix host panic if ioctl called with wrong index
  net: fix lock_sock_bh/unlock_sock_bh
  net/iucv: Add missing spin_unlock
  net: ll_temac: fix checksum offload logic
  net: ll_temac: fix interrupt bug when interrupt 0 is used
  sctp: dubious bitfields in sctp_transport
  ipmr: off by one in __ipmr_fill_mroute()
  ...
2010-05-28 10:18:40 -07:00
Takuya Yoshikawa a02c37891a vhost: fix the memory leak which will happen when memory_access_ok fails
We need to free newmem when vhost_set_memory() fails to complete.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27 13:55:17 +03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa d3553a5249 vhost-net: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly
copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes that could not be copied.

So we need to check if it is not zero, and in that case, we should return
the error number -EFAULT rather than directly return the return value from
copy_to/from_user().

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27 13:55:13 +03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa 7ad9c9d270 vhost: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly
copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes that could not be copied.

So we need to check if it is not zero, and in that case, we should return
the error number -EFAULT rather than directly return the return value from
copy_to/from_user().

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27 13:54:59 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin f8322fbe04 vhost: whitespace fix
Fix up whitespace in vq_memory_access_ok.

Reported-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27 12:28:03 +03:00
Jeff Dike dd1f4078f0 vhost-net: minor cleanup
Delete a label and goto from vhost_net_set_backend
Inverting a test allows a label and goto to be eliminated.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27 12:25:37 +03:00
Tobias Klauser 373a83a699 vhost: Storage class should be before const qualifier
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:

The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning
of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent
feature.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27 12:23:49 +03:00
Krishna Kumar 0f3d9a1746 vhost: Fix host panic if ioctl called with wrong index
Missed a boundary value check in vhost_set_vring. The host panics if
idx == nvqs is used in ioctl commands in vhost_virtqueue_init.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27 12:19:02 +03:00
Alexey Dobriyan 4be929be34 kernel-wide: replace USHORT_MAX, SHORT_MAX and SHORT_MIN with USHRT_MAX, SHRT_MAX and SHRT_MIN
- C99 knows about USHRT_MAX/SHRT_MAX/SHRT_MIN, not
  USHORT_MAX/SHORT_MAX/SHORT_MIN.

- Make SHRT_MIN of type s16, not int, for consistency.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/dma/timb_dma.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix security/keys/keyring.c]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
David S. Miller 6811d58fc1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	include/linux/if_link.h
2010-05-16 22:26:58 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 0d4993563b vhost: fix barrier pairing
According to memory-barriers.txt, an smp memory barrier in guest
should always be paired with an smp memory barrier in host,
and I quote "a lack of appropriate pairing is almost certainly an
error". In case of vhost, failure to flush out used index
update before looking at the interrupt disable flag
could result in missed interrupts, resulting in
networking hang under stress.

This might happen when flags read bypasses used index write.
So we see interrupts disabled and do not interrupt, at the
same time guest writes flags value to enable interrupt,
reads an old used index value, thinks that
used ring is empty and waits for interrupt.

Note: the barrier we pair with here is in
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c, function
vring_enable_cb.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
2010-05-12 18:04:04 +03:00
David S. Miller fea0691526 Merge branch 'vhost' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost 2010-04-14 22:52:46 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig a8d3782f9e vhost: fix sparse warnings
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-04-14 11:52:08 +03:00
David S. Miller 4a1032faac Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-04-11 02:44:30 -07:00
Jeff Dike 179b284e2f vhost-net: fix vq_memory_access_ok error checking
vq_memory_access_ok needs to check whether mem == NULL

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-04-07 17:04:45 +03:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 535297a6ae vhost: fix error handling in vring ioctls
Stanse found a locking problem in vhost_set_vring:
several returns from VHOST_SET_VRING_KICK, VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL,
VHOST_SET_VRING_ERR with the vq->mutex held.
Fix these up.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-03-17 23:07:35 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 0e25557212 vhost: fix interrupt mitigation with raw sockets
A thinko in code means we never trigger interrupt
mitigation. Fix this.

Reported-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Unai Uribarri <unai.uribarri@optenet.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-03-17 16:44:20 +02:00
Jeff Dike 1dace8c801 vhost: fix error path in vhost_net_set_backend
An error could cause vhost_net_set_backend to exit without unlocking
vq->mutex. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-03-07 13:28:53 +02:00
Sridhar Samudrala 39286fa41a vhost-net: restart tx poll on sk_sndbuf full
guest to remote communication with vhost net sometimes stops until
guest driver is restarted. This happens when we get guest kick precisely
when the backend send queue is full, as a result handle_tx() returns without
polling backend. This patch fixes this by restarting tx poll on this condition.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <toml@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-28 19:50:33 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin d6db3f5c11 vhost: fix get_user_pages_fast error handling
get_user_pages_fast returns number of pages on success, negative value
on failure, but never 0. Fix vhost code to match this logic.

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-02-28 19:42:36 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 73a99f0830 vhost: initialize log eventfd context pointer
vq log eventfd context pointer needs to be initialized, otherwise
operation may fail or oops if log is enabled but log eventfd not set by
userspace.  When log_ctx for device is created, it is copied to the vq.
This reset was missing.

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-02-28 19:42:35 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 86e9424d72 vhost: logging thinko fix
vhost was dong some complex math to get
offset to log at, and got it wrong by a couple of bytes,
while in fact it's simple: get address where we write,
subtract start of buffer, add log base.

Do it this way.

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-02-28 19:42:35 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann 501c774cb1 net/macvtap: add vhost support
This adds support for passing a macvtap file descriptor into
vhost-net, much like we already do for tun/tap.

Most of the new code is taken from the respective patch
in the tun driver and may get consolidated in the future.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18 14:08:38 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 5659338c88 vhost-net: switch to smp barriers
vhost-net only uses memory barriers to control SMP effects
(communication with userspace potentially running on a different CPU),
so it should use SMP barriers and not mandatory barriers for memory
access ordering, as suggested by Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-14 22:42:53 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 17660f8124 vhost: fix TUN=m VHOST_NET=y
drivers/built-in.o: In function `get_tun_socket':
    net.c:(.text+0x15436e): undefined reference to `tun_get_socket'

If tun is a module, vhost must be a module, too.
If tun is built-in or disabled, vhost can be built-in.

Note: TUN || !TUN might look a bit strange until you realize
that boolean logic rules do not apply for tristate variables.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-21 01:28:45 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 3a4d5c94e9 vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
  migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15 01:43:29 -08:00