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The LoPAR spec provides no way for the guest kernel to report failure of hotplug/hotunplug events. This wouldn't be bad if those operations were granted to always succeed, but that's far for the reality. What ends up happening is that, in the case of a failed hotunplug, regardless of whether it was a QEMU error or a guest misbehavior, the pSeries machine is retaining the unplug state of the device in the running guest. This state is cleanup in machine reset, where it is assumed that this state represents a device that is pending unplug, and the device is hotunpluged from the board. Until the reset occurs, any hotunplug operation of the same device is forbid because there is a pending unplug state. This behavior has at least one undesirable side effect. A long standing pending unplug state is, more often than not, the result of a hotunplug error. The user had to dealt with it, since retrying to unplug the device is noy allowed, and then in the machine reset we're removing the device from the guest. This means that we're failing the user twice - failed to hotunplug when asked, then hotunplugged without notice. Solutions to this problem range between trying to predict when the hotunplug will fail and forbid the operation from the QEMU layer, from opening up the IRQ queue to allow for multiple hotunplug attempts, from telling the users to 'reboot the machine if something goes wrong'. The first solution is flawed because we can't fully predict guest behavior from QEMU, the second solution is a trial and error remediation that counts on a hope that the unplug will eventually succeed, and the third is ... well. This patch introduces a crude, but effective solution to hotunplug errors in the pSeries machine. For each unplug done, we'll timeout after some time. If a certain amount of time passes, we'll cleanup the hotunplug state from the machine. During the timeout period, any unplug operations in the same device will still be blocked. After that, we'll assume that the guest failed the operation, and allow the user to try again. If the timeout is too short we'll prevent legitimate hotunplug situations to occur, so we'll need to overestimate the regular time an unplug operation takes to succeed to account that. The true solution for the hotunplug errors in the pSeries machines is a PAPR change to allow for the guest to warn the platform about it. For now, the work done in this timeout design can be used for the new PAPR 'abort hcall' in the future, given that for both cases we'll need code to cleanup the existing unplug states of the DRCs. At this moment we're adding the basic wiring of the timer into the DRC. Next patch will use the timer to timeout failed CPU hotunplugs. Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20210222194531.62717-4-danielhb413@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> |
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