From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>,
Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Expose monitor data only when monitor pages are used
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:26:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190319092609.GB21652@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190319040401.GA3050@ubu-Virtual-Machine>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:04:01AM -0400, Kimberly Brown wrote:
> There are two methods for signaling the host: the monitor page mechanism
> and hypercalls. The monitor page mechanism is used by performance
> critical channels (storage, networking, etc.) because it provides
> improved throughput. However, latency is increased. Monitor pages are
> allocated to these channels.
>
> Monitor pages are not allocated to channels that do not use the monitor
> page mechanism. Therefore, these channels do not have a valid monitor id
> or valid monitor page data. In these cases, some of the "_show"
> functions return incorrect data. They return an invalid monitor id and
> data that is beyond the bounds of the hv_monitor_page array fields.
>
> The "channel->offermsg.monitor_allocated" value can be used to determine
> whether monitor pages have been allocated to a channel.
>
> Add "is_visible()" callback functions for the device-level and
> channel-level attribute groups. These functions will hide the monitor
> sysfs files when the monitor mechanism is not used.
>
> Remove ".default_attributes" from "vmbus_chan_attrs" and create a
> channel-level attribute group. These changes allow the new
> "is_visible()" callback function to be applied to the channel-level
> attributes.
>
> Call "sysfs_create_group()" in "vmbus_add_channel_kobj()" to create the
> channel's sysfs files. Add a new function,
> “vmbus_remove_channel_attr_group()”, and call it in "free_channel()" to
> remove the channel's sysfs files when the channel is closed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>
Nice work, thanks for all of the changes you have made to this over
time.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-19 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-08 9:57 [PATCH 0/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs functions that display monitor id and page data Kimberly Brown
2019-02-08 9:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Change server monitor_pages index to 0 Kimberly Brown
2019-02-08 22:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-08 10:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Display nothing in sysfs if monitor_allocated not set Kimberly Brown
2019-02-08 22:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-11 7:01 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-11 18:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-14 6:11 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-14 19:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-19 5:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs functions that display monitor id and page data Kimberly Brown
2019-02-19 5:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Change server monitor_pages index to 0 Kimberly Brown
2019-02-20 14:35 ` Michael Kelley
[not found] ` <cover.1550554279.git.kimbrownkd@gmail.com>
2019-02-19 5:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Return -EINVAL if monitor_allocated not set Kimberly Brown
2019-02-20 16:11 ` Michael Kelley
2019-02-26 5:35 ` [PATCH v3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Expose monitor data when channel uses monitor pages Kimberly Brown
2019-02-26 8:18 ` Greg KH
2019-03-01 19:18 ` [PATCH v4] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Expose monitor data only when monitor pages are used Kimberly Brown
2019-03-02 18:39 ` Michael Kelley
2019-03-03 21:40 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-03 8:05 ` Greg KH
2019-03-03 21:11 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-04 7:38 ` Greg KH
2019-03-08 22:46 ` [PATCH v5] " Kimberly Brown
2019-03-09 7:21 ` Greg KH
2019-03-12 0:04 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-19 4:04 ` [PATCH v6] " Kimberly Brown
2019-03-19 9:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-03-20 20:18 ` Michael Kelley
2019-03-21 3:57 ` Sasha Levin
2019-03-21 15:55 ` Michael Kelley
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