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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2017-02-28 10:34:50 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-03-01 09:50:58 -0800
commit39e6c8208d7b6fb9d2047850fb3327db567b564b (patch)
tree3f0eb557e9d95e41ccfa5692dc513a7cd0590362 /net
parentb2d0fe35471d1a71471f99147ffb5986bd60e744 (diff)
downloadlinux-39e6c8208d7b6fb9d2047850fb3327db567b564b.tar.bz2
net: solve a NAPI race
While playing with mlx4 hardware timestamping of RX packets, I found that some packets were received by TCP stack with a ~200 ms delay... Since the timestamp was provided by the NIC, and my probe was added in tcp_v4_rcv() while in BH handler, I was confident it was not a sender issue, or a drop in the network. This would happen with a very low probability, but hurting RPC workloads. A NAPI driver normally arms the IRQ after the napi_complete_done(), after NAPI_STATE_SCHED is cleared, so that the hard irq handler can grab it. Problem is that if another point in the stack grabs NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit while IRQ are not disabled, we might have later an IRQ firing and finding this bit set, right before napi_complete_done() clears it. This can happen with busy polling users, or if gro_flush_timeout is used. But some other uses of napi_schedule() in drivers can cause this as well. thread 1 thread 2 (could be on same cpu, or not) // busy polling or napi_watchdog() napi_schedule(); ... napi->poll() device polling: read 2 packets from ring buffer Additional 3rd packet is available. device hard irq // does nothing because NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is owned by thread 1 napi_schedule(); napi_complete_done(napi, 2); rearm_irq(); Note that rearm_irq() will not force the device to send an additional IRQ for the packet it already signaled (3rd packet in my example) This patch adds a new NAPI_STATE_MISSED bit, that napi_schedule_prep() can set if it could not grab NAPI_STATE_SCHED Then napi_complete_done() properly reschedules the napi to make sure we do not miss something. Since we manipulate multiple bits at once, use cmpxchg() like in sk_busy_loop() to provide proper transactions. In v2, I changed napi_watchdog() to use a relaxed variant of napi_schedule_prep() : No need to set NAPI_STATE_MISSED from this point. In v3, I added more details in the changelog and clears NAPI_STATE_MISSED in busy_poll_stop() In v4, I added the ideas given by Alexander Duyck in v3 review Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c76
1 files changed, 72 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 304f2deae5f9..e63bf61b19be 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4884,6 +4884,39 @@ void __napi_schedule(struct napi_struct *n)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_schedule);
/**
+ * napi_schedule_prep - check if napi can be scheduled
+ * @n: napi context
+ *
+ * Test if NAPI routine is already running, and if not mark
+ * it as running. This is used as a condition variable
+ * insure only one NAPI poll instance runs. We also make
+ * sure there is no pending NAPI disable.
+ */
+bool napi_schedule_prep(struct napi_struct *n)
+{
+ unsigned long val, new;
+
+ do {
+ val = READ_ONCE(n->state);
+ if (unlikely(val & NAPIF_STATE_DISABLE))
+ return false;
+ new = val | NAPIF_STATE_SCHED;
+
+ /* Sets STATE_MISSED bit if STATE_SCHED was already set
+ * This was suggested by Alexander Duyck, as compiler
+ * emits better code than :
+ * if (val & NAPIF_STATE_SCHED)
+ * new |= NAPIF_STATE_MISSED;
+ */
+ new |= (val & NAPIF_STATE_SCHED) / NAPIF_STATE_SCHED *
+ NAPIF_STATE_MISSED;
+ } while (cmpxchg(&n->state, val, new) != val);
+
+ return !(val & NAPIF_STATE_SCHED);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_schedule_prep);
+
+/**
* __napi_schedule_irqoff - schedule for receive
* @n: entry to schedule
*
@@ -4897,7 +4930,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_schedule_irqoff);
bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_struct *n, int work_done)
{
- unsigned long flags;
+ unsigned long flags, val, new;
/*
* 1) Don't let napi dequeue from the cpu poll list
@@ -4927,7 +4960,27 @@ bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_struct *n, int work_done)
list_del_init(&n->poll_list);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_and_clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state));
+
+ do {
+ val = READ_ONCE(n->state);
+
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!(val & NAPIF_STATE_SCHED));
+
+ new = val & ~(NAPIF_STATE_MISSED | NAPIF_STATE_SCHED);
+
+ /* If STATE_MISSED was set, leave STATE_SCHED set,
+ * because we will call napi->poll() one more time.
+ * This C code was suggested by Alexander Duyck to help gcc.
+ */
+ new |= (val & NAPIF_STATE_MISSED) / NAPIF_STATE_MISSED *
+ NAPIF_STATE_SCHED;
+ } while (cmpxchg(&n->state, val, new) != val);
+
+ if (unlikely(val & NAPIF_STATE_MISSED)) {
+ __napi_schedule(n);
+ return false;
+ }
+
return true;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_complete_done);
@@ -4953,6 +5006,16 @@ static void busy_poll_stop(struct napi_struct *napi, void *have_poll_lock)
{
int rc;
+ /* Busy polling means there is a high chance device driver hard irq
+ * could not grab NAPI_STATE_SCHED, and that NAPI_STATE_MISSED was
+ * set in napi_schedule_prep().
+ * Since we are about to call napi->poll() once more, we can safely
+ * clear NAPI_STATE_MISSED.
+ *
+ * Note: x86 could use a single "lock and ..." instruction
+ * to perform these two clear_bit()
+ */
+ clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_MISSED, &napi->state);
clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL, &napi->state);
local_bh_disable();
@@ -5088,8 +5151,13 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart napi_watchdog(struct hrtimer *timer)
struct napi_struct *napi;
napi = container_of(timer, struct napi_struct, timer);
- if (napi->gro_list)
- napi_schedule_irqoff(napi);
+
+ /* Note : we use a relaxed variant of napi_schedule_prep() not setting
+ * NAPI_STATE_MISSED, since we do not react to a device IRQ.
+ */
+ if (napi->gro_list && !napi_disable_pending(napi) &&
+ !test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &napi->state))
+ __napi_schedule_irqoff(napi);
return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
}