Commit 690e29b91102 ("vfio-ccw: Refactor ccw irq handler") changed one of the checks for the IRQ notifier registration from saying "the host needs to recognize the only IRQ that exists" to saying "the host needs to recognize ANY IRQ that exists."
And this worked fine, because the subsequent change to support the CRW IRQ notifier doesn't get into this code when running on an older kernel, thanks to a guard by a capability region. The later addition of the REQ(uest) IRQ by commit b2f96f9e4f5f ("vfio-ccw: Connect the device request notifier") broke this assumption because there is no matching capability region. Thus, running new QEMU on an older kernel fails with: vfio: unexpected number of irqs 2 Let's adapt the message here so that there's a better clue of what IRQ is missing. Furthermore, let's make the REQ(uest) IRQ not fail when attempting to register it, to permit running vfio-ccw on a newer QEMU with an older kernel. Fixes: b2f96f9e4f5f ("vfio-ccw: Connect the device request notifier") Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <far...@linux.ibm.com> --- Notes: v1->v2: - Keep existing "invalid number of IRQs" message with adapted text [CH] - Move the "is this an error" test to the registration of the IRQ in question, rather than making it allowable for any IRQ mismatch [CH] - Drop Fixes tag for initial commit [EF] v1: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20210419184906.2847283-1-far...@linux.ibm.com/ hw/vfio/ccw.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/vfio/ccw.c b/hw/vfio/ccw.c index b2df708e4b..400bc07fe2 100644 --- a/hw/vfio/ccw.c +++ b/hw/vfio/ccw.c @@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ static void vfio_ccw_register_irq_notifier(VFIOCCWDevice *vcdev, } if (vdev->num_irqs < irq + 1) { - error_setg(errp, "vfio: unexpected number of irqs %u", - vdev->num_irqs); + error_setg(errp, "vfio: IRQ %u not available (number of irqs %u)", + irq, vdev->num_irqs); return; } @@ -696,13 +696,15 @@ static void vfio_ccw_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp) vfio_ccw_register_irq_notifier(vcdev, VFIO_CCW_REQ_IRQ_INDEX, &err); if (err) { - goto out_req_notifier_err; + /* + * Report this error, but do not make it a failing condition. + * Lack of this IRQ in the host does not prevent normal operation. + */ + error_report_err(err); } return; -out_req_notifier_err: - vfio_ccw_unregister_irq_notifier(vcdev, VFIO_CCW_CRW_IRQ_INDEX); out_crw_notifier_err: vfio_ccw_unregister_irq_notifier(vcdev, VFIO_CCW_IO_IRQ_INDEX); out_io_notifier_err: -- 2.25.1