On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:21 PM Liu, Changpeng <changpeng....@intel.com> wrote:
>
> DPDK already provides pre_msg_handle and post_msg_handle to let vhost-backend 
> to process
> the differences for different virtio devices.  And it's not good idea to 
> start all the virtio queues in SeaBIOS,
> we tried that long time ago.  I suggest you to submit a SPDK issue so that we 
> can take a look too.
>
Thanks, I think just changing spdk may not solve this problem.
OK, I have submit a issue here: https://github.com/spdk/spdk/issues/2228

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Li Feng <fen...@smartx.com>
> > Sent: Friday, November 5, 2021 11:18 AM
> > To: Liu, Changpeng <changpeng....@intel.com>
> > Cc: Xia, Chenbo <chenbo....@intel.com>; dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Maxime
> > Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vhost: call destroy_device always in
> > vhost_destroy_device_notify
> >
> > Add Liu Changpeng.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:49 PM Li Feng <fen...@smartx.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Feng Li
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:28 PM Maxime Coquelin
> > > <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 10/14/21 14:12, Li Feng wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:01 PM Maxime Coquelin
> > > > > <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Hi Li,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> The commit message is not compliant with the contributors guidelines:
> > > > >> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/patches.html#commit-
> > messages-subject-line
> > > > > OK, I got it.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> On 9/3/21 10:02, Li Feng wrote:
> > > > >>> Vhost-user client must send the mem table, kick fd, call fd on all
> > > > >>> virtqueues, then the device will be VIRTIO_DEV_RUNNING.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> If the vhost-user communication is initialized partly, e.g.
> > > > >>> - When initializing the vhost-user, try to restart the vhost-user
> > > > >>>       backend;
> > > > >>> - Seabios only initialized the vhost-scsi req vq.
> > > > >>> The device is not with flags VIRTIO_DEV_RUNNING..
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Root Cause:
> > > > >>> The vhost session has been created, and added the scsi/blk requestq
> > > > >>> poller into reactor, but when destroying the device, the requestq 
> > > > >>> is not
> > > > >>> unregistered.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Reproduce the crash on spdk vhost-user backend:
> > > > >>> 1. Create a VM;
> > > > >>> 2. Mount a ISO to a VM, start the VM, don't install the OS;
> > > > >>> 3. Restart the spdk_tgt;
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Another discusstion is in seabiso:
> > > > >>> https://patchew.org/Seabios/20210831122339.2591585-1-
> > fen...@smartx.com/
> > > > >>
> > > > >> This is a fix, so you need to add the Fixes tag and cc stable.
> > > > > Acked.
> > > > >
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> Signed-off-by: Li Feng <fen...@smartx.com>
> > > > >>> ---
> > > > >>> v2:
> > > > >>> Fix the commit msg typo: vas -> virtqueues.
> > > > >>> --
> > > > >>>    lib/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +-
> > > > >>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost.c b/lib/vhost/vhost.c
> > > > >>> index 355ff37651..191ba82c41 100644
> > > > >>> --- a/lib/vhost/vhost.c
> > > > >>> +++ b/lib/vhost/vhost.c
> > > > >>> @@ -710,8 +710,8 @@ vhost_destroy_device_notify(struct virtio_net
> > *dev)
> > > > >>>                if (vdpa_dev)
> > > > >>>                        vdpa_dev->ops->dev_close(dev->vid);
> > > > >>>                dev->flags &= ~VIRTIO_DEV_RUNNING;
> > > > >>> -             dev->notify_ops->destroy_device(dev->vid);
> > > > >>>        }
> > > > >>> +     dev->notify_ops->destroy_device(dev->vid);
> > > > >>
> > > > >> .destroy_device() is the counter-part of .new_device().
> > > > >> VIRTIO_DEV_RUNNING is set only when .new_device() has been called
> > with
> > > > >> success, and cleared when .destroy_device() is called.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> So I disagree with the fix, we want to keep the correlation between
> > > > >> VIRTIO_DEV_RUNNING and .new_device()/.destroy_device(). Doing
> > otherwise
> > > > >> could lead to regressions with other applications than yours.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> What is not clear from the commit message or the discussion you link 
> > > > >> is
> > > > >> where does it crash exactly. Is it in SPDK, in DPDK?
> > > > >
> > > > > The crash is in SPDK, the poller is still running in the reactor,
> > > > > however, the device is freed.
> > > > >
> > > > > I really don't have a good method to handle this partly initialized 
> > > > > virt queues.
> > > > > This is another patch I prepared to fix this issue:
> > > > >
> > > > >  From 63142ec60088d08b27b9657640b82e837557b5d4 Mon Sep 17
> > 00:00:00 2001
> > > > > From: Li Feng <fen...@smartx.com>
> > > > > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:51:44 +0800
> > > > > Subject: [PATCH] vhost: fix vhost session crash
> > > > >
> > > > > If any vq is inited well, treat the dev is RUNNING status.
> > > > >
> > > > > Root Cause:
> > > > > The session has been created, and added the requestq poller into
> > > > > reactor, but when destroying the device, the requestq is not
> > > > > unregistered.
> > > > > The seabios only initialized the req vq(idx = 2), ignore the controlq
> > > > > and eventq vq.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reproduce:
> > > > > 1. Create a VM;
> > > > > 2. Mount a ISO to a VM, start the VM, don't install the OS;
> > > > > 3. Restart the zbs-chunkd;
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Li Feng <fen...@smartx.com>
> > > > > Change-Id: I21292e58b0b08237b5d105359095ec6a31907752
> > > > > ---
> > > > >   lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 6 ++++--
> > > > >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c 
> > > > > b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> > > > > index f211ec8..a80e9f4 100644
> > > > > --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> > > > > +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> > > > > @@ -1394,9 +1394,11 @@ virtio_is_ready(struct virtio_net *dev)
> > > > >    "kickfd: %d callfd: %d enabled: %d\n",
> > > > >    dev->ifname, vq, i, vq->desc, vq->avail,
> > > > >    vq->used, vq->kickfd, vq->callfd, vq->enabled);
> > > > > - if (!vq_is_ready(dev, vq))
> > > > > - return 0;
> > > > > + if (vq_is_ready(dev, vq))
> > > > > + break;
> > > > >    }
> > > > > + if (i == nr_vring)
> > > > > + return 0;
> > > > >
> > > > >    /* If supported, ensure the frontend is really done with config */
> > > > >    if (dev->protocol_features & (1ULL <<
> > VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_STATUS))
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Above patch will also cause regression, as networking backends work
> > > > with queue pairs.
> > > >
> > > > So your issue is that SPDK is processing vrings while DPDK considers the
> > > > device as not running. Instead of working around that issue, maybe what
> > > > you should do is to introduce a new API and mechanism to help DPDK
> > > > determine whether it should consider the device ready based on the
> > > > backend type. IIUC, in your Vhost-scsi case, it should be as soon as VQ
> > > > 2 is ready?
> > >
> > > Yes, VQ 2 is ready, the vhost-iscsi device should be ready.
> > > I had this idea months ago, if it's acceptable, I will try to do it.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >

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