According to the virtio specification, a memory barrier should be used before incrementing the idx field in the "available" ring. So far, we did not do this in the s390-ccw bios yet, but recently Peter Maydell saw problems with the s390-ccw bios when running the qtests on an aarch64 host (the bios panic'ed with the message: "SCSI cannot report LUNs: response VS RESP=09"), which could maybe be related to the missing memory barriers. Thus let's add those barriers now. Since we've only seen the problem on TCG so far, a "bcr 14,0" should be sufficient here to trigger the tcg_gen_mb() in the TCG translate code.
(Note: The virtio spec also talks about using a memory barrier *after* incrementing the idx field, but if I understood correctly this is only required when using notification suppression - which we don't use in the s390-ccw bios here) Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> --- pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio-net.c | 1 + pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.c | 1 + pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio-net.c b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio-net.c index 2fcb0a58c5..25598a7a97 100644 --- a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio-net.c +++ b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio-net.c @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ int recv(int fd, void *buf, int maxlen, int flags) /* Mark buffer as available to the host again */ rxvq->avail->ring[rxvq->avail->idx % rxvq->num] = id; + virtio_mb(); rxvq->avail->idx = rxvq->avail->idx + 1; vring_notify(rxvq); diff --git a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.c b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.c index ab49840db8..fb9687f9b3 100644 --- a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.c +++ b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.c @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ void vring_send_buf(VRing *vr, void *p, int len, int flags) /* Chains only have a single ID */ if (!(flags & VRING_DESC_F_NEXT)) { + virtio_mb(); vr->avail->idx++; } } diff --git a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.h b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.h index 19fceb6495..6ac65482a9 100644 --- a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.h +++ b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/virtio.h @@ -271,6 +271,8 @@ struct VirtioCmd { }; typedef struct VirtioCmd VirtioCmd; +#define virtio_mb() asm volatile("bcr 14,0" : : : "memory") + bool vring_notify(VRing *vr); int drain_irqs(SubChannelId schid); void vring_send_buf(VRing *vr, void *p, int len, int flags); -- 2.27.0