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>
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