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Date:      Wed, 28 Dec 2016 10:06:41 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        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>, Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: cxgbe's native netmap support broken since r307394
Message-ID:  <2698793.0b4KyHrqck@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2BhQ2%2BjBJXs2gGQaiJVEkFQx=qiecQ=P637epvtex9XcnXzBEQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20161217222812.GA4979@ox> <CAJ-VmomTTPfr85E1CqbYZ2dj1R7ZPkTFP03Z-AAd_u=5GjNb4g@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BhQ2%2BjBJXs2gGQaiJVEkFQx=qiecQ=P637epvtex9XcnXzBEQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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
> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>>> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list
> >>>>>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
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> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Vincenzo Maffione
> >>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list
> >>>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Vincenzo Maffione
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> -----------------------------------------+-------------------------------
> >>>  Prof. Luigi RIZZO, rizzo@iet.unipi.it  . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione
> >>>  http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/        . Universita` di Pisa
> >>>  TEL      +39-050-2217533               . via Diotisalvi 2
> >>>  Mobile   +39-338-6809875               . 56122 PISA (Italy)
> >>> -----------------------------------------+-------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Vincenzo Maffione
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
John Baldwin



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