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Date:      Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:06:22 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, Giuseppe Lettieri <g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org>, Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cxgbe's native netmap support broken since r307394
Message-ID:  <9729046.di4hkLAXiP@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2B_eA9jqPHD9zmBqurYtwefgK=ZG51=9bU%2B7ovZtmJK=ze1tnA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20161217222812.GA4979@ox> <2698793.0b4KyHrqck@ralph.baldwin.cx> <CA%2B_eA9jqPHD9zmBqurYtwefgK=ZG51=9bU%2B7ovZtmJK=ze1tnA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 07:25:22 PM Vincenzo Maffione wrote:
> Hi,
>   The "worker_lock" is taken by nm_os_kthread_wakeup_worker(), which
> in turn is called by nm_pt_host_notify(). The latter function is a
> callback that may be called by a driver interrupt service routine;
> more precisely this happens when the driver calls netmap_tx_irq() or
> netmap_rx_irq(). As far as I know in FreeBSD it is not possible to
> lock a MTX_DEF mtx inside an ISR. Am I wrong on this?

It depends.  Most interrupt handlers run in ithreads and can use MTX_DEF.
Only interrupt handlers that run from a filter are restricted to using
MTX_SPIN.  Looking at all the calls to netmap_[tr]x_irq() in the tree,
they are all done from contexts that are safe to use MTX_DEF (and in
general they have to be as the equivalent code for the non-netmap case
is calling routines like if_input or m_freem that can't be invoked from
a filter either).

> 
> Cheers,
>   Vincenzo
> 
> 2016-12-28 19:06 GMT+01:00 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>:
> > Why are you using MTX_SPIN?  Changing the lock type to MTX_DEF would seem to
> > be a smaller patch and probably more correct for FreeBSD.
> >
> > On Thursday, December 22, 2016 05:29:41 PM Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> >> sure go ahead and thank you!
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > ok, does anyone mind if I commit it as-is?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -a
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 21 December 2016 at 13:37, Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hi Luigi,
> >> >>   I attached a minimal change containing two fixes:
> >> >>
> >> >> - change IFNET_WLOCK into IFNET_RLOCK, to fix the cxgbe issue related
> >> >> to this thread
> >> >> - use the proper locking functions for the "worker_lock", unrelated
> >> >> but needed to avoid the O.S. to trap because of a mismatch between
> >> >> MTX_SPIN and MTX_DEF.
> >> >>
> >> >> Cheers,
> >> >>   Vincenzo
> >> >>
> >> >> 2016-12-21 20:30 GMT+01:00 Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>:
> >> >>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Vincenzo Maffione
> >> >>> <v.maffione@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>> Hi,
> >> >>>>   There is no commit related to that in the FreeBSD svn or git.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> The fix has been published to the github netmap repository here
> >> >>>> (branch master): https://github.com/luigirizzo/netmap
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> What we should do is to import all the recent updates from the github
> >> >>>> into HEAD. I can prepare a patch for HEAD, if you wish. Just let me
> >> >>>> know.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I just checked and the diff between FreeBSD head and netmap head
> >> >>> in github is almost 3k lines due to a lot of recent refactoring.
> >> >>> So, if there is an easy way to extract just the locking change that would
> >> >>> be preferable as an interim solution.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> cheers
> >> >>> luigi
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Cheers,
> >> >>>>   Vincenzo
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> 2016-12-20 21:45 GMT+01:00 Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>:
> >> >>>>> hi,
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> What's the commit? We should get it into -HEAD asap.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> -adrian
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> On 20 December 2016 at 01:25, Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>>>> Ok, applied to the netmap github repo.
> >> >>>>>> This fix will be published when Luigi does the next commit on FreeBSD.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Cheers,
> >> >>>>>>   Vincenzo
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> 2016-12-19 20:05 GMT+01:00 Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org>:
> >> >>>>>>> IFNET_RLOCK will work, thanks.
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> Navdeep
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>>> Hi Navdeep,
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>   Indeed, we have reviewed the code, and we think it is ok to
> >> >>>>>>>> implement nm_os_ifnet_lock() with IFNET_RLOCK(), instead of using
> >> >>>>>>>> IFNET_WLOCK().
> >> >>>>>>>> Since IFNET_RLOCK() results into sx_slock(), this should fix the issue.
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> On FreeBSD, this locking is needed to protect a flag read by nm_iszombie().
> >> >>>>>>>> However, on Linux the same lock is also needed to protect the call to
> >> >>>>>>>> the nm_hw_register() callback, so we prefer to have an "unified"
> >> >>>>>>>> locking scheme, i.e. always calling nm_hw_register under the lock.
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> Does this make sense to you? Would it be easy for you to make a quick
> >> >>>>>>>> test by replacing IFNET_WLOCK with IFNET_RLOCK?
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> Thanks,
> >> >>>>>>>>   Vincenzo
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> 2016-12-17 23:28 GMT+01:00 Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org>:
> >> >>>>>>>>> Luigi, Vincenzo,
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> The last major update to netmap (r307394 and followups) broke cxgbe's
> >> >>>>>>>>> native netmap support.  The problem is that netmap_hw_reg now holds an
> >> >>>>>>>>> rw_lock around the driver's netmap_on/off routines.  It has always been
> >> >>>>>>>>> safe for the driver to sleep during these operations but now it panics
> >> >>>>>>>>> instead.
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> Why is IFNET_WLOCK needed here?  It seems like a regression to disallow
> >> >>>>>>>>> sleep on the control path.
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> Regards,
> >> >>>>>>>>> Navdeep
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> begin_synchronized_op with the following non-sleepable locks held:
> >> >>>>>>>>> exclusive rw ifnet_rw (ifnet_rw) r = 0 (0xffffffff8271d680) locked @
> >> >>>>>>>>> /root/ws/head/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_freebsd.c:95
> >> >>>>>>>>> stack backtrace:
> >> >>>>>>>>> #0 0xffffffff810837a5 at witness_debugger+0xe5
> >> >>>>>>>>> #1 0xffffffff81084d88 at witness_warn+0x3b8
> >> >>>>>>>>> #2 0xffffffff83ef2bcc at begin_synchronized_op+0x6c
> >> >>>>>>>>> #3 0xffffffff83f14beb at cxgbe_netmap_reg+0x5b
> >> >>>>>>>>> #4 0xffffffff809846f1 at netmap_hw_reg+0x81
> >> >>>>>>>>> #5 0xffffffff809806de at netmap_do_regif+0x19e
> >> >>>>>>>>> #6 0xffffffff8098121d at netmap_ioctl+0x7ad
> >> >>>>>>>>> #7 0xffffffff8098682f at freebsd_netmap_ioctl+0x5f
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> --
> >> >>>>>>>> Vincenzo Maffione
> >> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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> >> >>>>>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
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> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> --
> >> >>>>>> Vincenzo Maffione
> >> >>>>>> _______________________________________________
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> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> --
> >> >>>> Vincenzo Maffione
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> -----------------------------------------+-------------------------------
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> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Vincenzo Maffione
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > John Baldwin
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
John Baldwin



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