virtio/s390: deprecate old transport

There only ever have been two host implementations of the old
s390-virtio (pre-ccw) transport: the experimental kuli userspace,
and qemu. As qemu switched its default to ccw with 2.4 (with most
users having used ccw well before that) and removed the old transport
entirely in 2.6, s390-virtio probably hasn't been in active use for
quite some time and is therefore likely to bitrot.

Let's start the slow march towards removing the code by deprecating
it.

Note that this also deprecates the early virtio console code, which
has been causing trouble in the guest without being wired up in any
relevant hypervisor code.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 9e607bf2d640df1ba7aee69b2cccbc4fd5ff61cb..5a2907ee8c934d8269356bf1c450f9d2350ce687 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -871,4 +871,17 @@ config S390_GUEST
          Select this option if you want to run the kernel as a guest under
          the KVM hypervisor.
 
+config S390_GUEST_OLD_TRANSPORT
+       def_bool y
+       prompt "Guest support for old s390 virtio transport (DEPRECATED)"
+       depends on S390_GUEST
+       help
+         Enable this option to add support for the old s390-virtio
+         transport (i.e. virtio devices NOT based on virtio-ccw). This
+         type of virtio devices is only available on the experimental
+         kuli userspace or with old (< 2.6) qemu. If you are running
+         with a modern version of qemu (which supports virtio-ccw since
+         1.4 and uses it by default since version 2.4), you probably won't
+         need this.
+
 endmenu

diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile b/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile
index 241891a57caf8e97637d3e6c2ce6baecd021589a..df40692a9011ceb2cb2481af2eaa58a9ff92136e 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile
@@ -6,4 +6,8 @@
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 only)
 # as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_S390_GUEST) += kvm_virtio.o virtio_ccw.o
+s390-virtio-objs := virtio_ccw.o
+ifdef CONFIG_S390_GUEST_OLD_TRANSPORT
+s390-virtio-objs += kvm_virtio.o
+endif
+obj-$(CONFIG_S390_GUEST) += $(s390-virtio-objs)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c b/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
index b0a849f02df36a11282b680fe25b9839be5353d7..5e5c11f37b2420cbb406ff5591ad15fe615f5ed8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c
@@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ static int __init kvm_devices_init(void)
        if (test_devices_support(total_memory_size) < 0)
                return -ENODEV;
 
+       pr_warn("The s390-virtio transport is deprecated. Please switch to a modern host providing virtio-ccw.\n");
+
        rc = vmem_add_mapping(total_memory_size, PAGE_SIZE);
        if (rc)
                return rc;