On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:12:38PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin noticed that we could run the refill work after
> ndo_close, which can re-enable napi - we don't disable it until
> virtnet_remove. This is clearly wrong, so move the workqueue control
> to ndo_open and ndo_stop (aka. virtnet_open and virtnet_close).
>
> One subtle point: virtnet_probe() could simply fail if it couldn't
> allocate a receive buffer, but that's less polite in virtnet_open() so
> we schedule a refill as we do in the normal receive path if we run out
> of memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
Doh.
napi_disable does not prevent the following
napi_schedule, does it?
Can someone confirm that I am not seeing things please?
And this means this hack does not work:
try_fill_recv can still run in parallel with
napi, corrupting the vq.
I suspect we need to resurrect a patch that used a
dedicated flag to avoid this race.
Comments?
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -439,7 +439,13 @@ static int add_recvbuf_mergeable(struct
> return err;
> }
>
> -/* Returns false if we couldn't fill entirely (OOM). */
> +/*
> + * Returns false if we couldn't fill entirely (OOM).
> + *
> + * Normally run in the receive path, but can also be run from ndo_open
> + * before we're receiving packets, or from refill_work which is
> + * careful to disable receiving (using napi_disable).
> + */
> static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> int err;
> @@ -719,6 +725,10 @@ static int virtnet_open(struct net_devic
> {
> struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
>
> + /* Make sure we have some buffers: if oom use wq. */
> + if (!try_fill_recv(vi, GFP_KERNEL))
> + schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> +
> virtnet_napi_enable(vi);
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -772,6 +782,8 @@ static int virtnet_close(struct net_devi
> {
> struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
>
> + /* Make sure refill_work doesn't re-enable napi! */
> + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
> napi_disable(&vi->napi);
>
> return 0;
> @@ -1082,7 +1094,6 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_d
>
> unregister:
> unregister_netdev(dev);
> - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
> free_vqs:
> vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
> free_stats:
> @@ -1121,9 +1132,7 @@ static void __devexit virtnet_remove(str
> /* Stop all the virtqueues. */
> vdev->config->reset(vdev);
>
> -
> unregister_netdev(vi->dev);
> - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
>
> /* Free unused buffers in both send and recv, if any. */
> free_unused_bufs(vi);
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