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Commit 01396a37 authored by Harald Freudenberger's avatar Harald Freudenberger Committed by Martin Schwidefsky
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s390/zcrypt: revisit ap device remove procedure



Working with the vfio-ap driver let to some revisit of the way
how an ap (queue) device is removed from the driver.
With the current implementation all the cleanup was done before
the driver even got notified about the removal. Now the ap
queue removal is done in 3 steps:
1) A preparation step, all ap messages within the queue
   are flushed and so the driver does 'receive' them.
   Also a new state AP_STATE_REMOVE assigned to the queue
   makes sure there are no new messages queued in.
2) Now the driver's remove function is invoked and the
   driver should do the job of cleaning up it's internal
   administration lists or whatever. After 2) is done
   it is guaranteed, that the driver is not invoked any
   more. On the other hand the driver has to make sure
   that the APQN is not accessed any more after step 2
   is complete.
3) Now the ap bus code does the job of total cleanup of the
   APQN. A reset with zero is triggered and the state of
   the queue goes to AP_STATE_UNBOUND.
   After step 3) is complete, the ap queue has no pending
   messages and the APQN is cleared and so there are no
   requests and replies lingering around in the firmware
   queue for this APQN. Also the interrupts are disabled.

After these remove steps the ap queue device may be assigned
to another driver.

Stress testing this remove/probe procedure showed a problem with the
correct module reference counting. The actual receive of an reply in
the driver is done asynchronous with completions. So with a driver
change on an ap queue the message flush triggers completions but the
threads waiting for the completions may run at a time where the queue
already has the new driver assigned. So the module_put() at receive
time needs to be done on the driver module which queued the ap
message. This change is also part of this patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHarald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIngo Franzki <ifranzki@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
parent cd479ecc
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