virtio: introduce grab/release_ioeventfd to fix vhost

Following the recent refactoring of virtio notifiers [1], more specifically
the patch ed08a2a0b ("virtio: use virtio_bus_set_host_notifier to
start/stop ioeventfd") that uses virtio_bus_set_host_notifier [2]
by default, core virtio code requires 'ioeventfd_started' to be set
to true/false when the host notifiers are configured.

When vhost is stopped and started, however, there is a stop followed by
another start. Since ioeventfd_started was never set to true, the 'stop'
operation triggered by virtio_bus_set_host_notifier() will not result
in a call to virtio_pci_ioeventfd_assign(assign=false). This leaves
the memory regions with stale notifiers and results on the next start
triggering the following assertion:

  kvm_mem_ioeventfd_add: error adding ioeventfd: File exists
  Aborted

This patch reintroduces (hopefully in a cleaner way) the concept
that was present with ioeventfd_disabled before the refactoring.
When ioeventfd_grabbed>0, ioeventfd_started tracks whether ioeventfd
should be enabled or not, but ioeventfd is actually not started at
all until vhost releases the host notifiers.

[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg07748.html
[2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg07760.html

Reported-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Fixes: ed08a2a0b ("virtio: use virtio_bus_set_host_notifier to start/stop ioeventfd")
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Tested-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h
index fdf7fdab81..8a51e2c564 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h
@@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ struct VirtioBusState {
      * Set if ioeventfd has been started.
      */
     bool ioeventfd_started;
+
+    /*
+     * Set if ioeventfd has been grabbed by vhost.  When ioeventfd
+     * is grabbed by vhost, we track its started/stopped state (which
+     * depends in turn on the virtio status register), but do not
+     * register a handler for the ioeventfd.  When ioeventfd is
+     * released, if ioeventfd_started is true we finally register
+     * the handler so that QEMU's device model can use ioeventfd.
+     */
+    int ioeventfd_grabbed;
 };
 
 void virtio_bus_device_plugged(VirtIODevice *vdev, Error **errp);
@@ -131,6 +141,10 @@ bool virtio_bus_ioeventfd_enabled(VirtioBusState *bus);
 int virtio_bus_start_ioeventfd(VirtioBusState *bus);
 /* Stop the ioeventfd. */
 void virtio_bus_stop_ioeventfd(VirtioBusState *bus);
+/* Tell the bus that vhost is grabbing the ioeventfd. */
+int virtio_bus_grab_ioeventfd(VirtioBusState *bus);
+/* bus that vhost is not using the ioeventfd anymore. */
+void virtio_bus_release_ioeventfd(VirtioBusState *bus);
 /* Switch from/to the generic ioeventfd handler */
 int virtio_bus_set_host_notifier(VirtioBusState *bus, int n, bool assign);