3.2.50-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
commit cbdadbbf0c790f79350a8f36029208944c5487d0 upstream.
virtio net called virtqueue_enable_cq on RX path after napi_complete, so
with NAPI_STATE_SCHED clear - outside the implicit napi lock.
This violates the requirement to synchronize virtqueue_enable_cq wrt
virtqueue_add_buf. In particular, used event can move backwards,
causing us to lose interrupts.
In a debug build, this can trigger panic within START_USE.
Jason Wang reports that he can trigger the races artificially,
by adding udelay() in virtqueue_enable_cb() after virtio_mb().
However, we must call napi_complete to clear NAPI_STATE_SCHED before
polling the virtqueue for used buffers, otherwise napi_schedule_prep in
a callback will fail, causing us to lose RX events.
To fix, call virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare with NAPI_STATE_SCHED
set (under napi lock), later call virtqueue_poll with
NAPI_STATE_SCHED clear (outside the lock).
Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
[wg: Backported to 3.2]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Gloger <wm...@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
diff -upr linux-3.2.49/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
linux-3.2.49wg/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
--- linux-3.2.49/drivers/net/virtio_net.c 2012-01-05 00:55:44.000000000
+0100
+++ linux-3.2.49wg/drivers/net/virtio_net.c 2013-07-27 13:57:33.000000000
+0200
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static int virtnet_poll(struct napi_stru
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = container_of(napi, struct virtnet_info, napi);
void *buf;
- unsigned int len, received = 0;
+ unsigned int r, len, received = 0;
again:
while (received < budget &&
@@ -525,8 +525,9 @@ again:
/* Out of packets? */
if (received < budget) {
+ r = virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(vi->rvq);
napi_complete(napi);
- if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb(vi->rvq)) &&
+ if (unlikely(virtqueue_poll(vi->rvq, r)) &&
napi_schedule_prep(napi)) {
virtqueue_disable_cb(vi->rvq);
__napi_schedule(napi);
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