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Date:      Wed, 28 Dec 2016 19:25:22 +0100
From:      Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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:  <CA%2B_eA9jqPHD9zmBqurYtwefgK=ZG51=9bU%2B7ovZtmJK=ze1tnA@mail.gmail.com>
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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?

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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>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> --
>> >>>>>> Vincenzo Maffione
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>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> Vincenzo Maffione
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> -----------------------------------------+-------------------------------
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Vincenzo Maffione
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> John Baldwin



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