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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] virtio_net: fix lockdep warning on 32 bit
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 03:25:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200507072525.355222-1-mst@redhat.com> (raw)

When we fill up a receive VQ, try_fill_recv currently tries to count
kicks using a 64 bit stats counter. Turns out, on a 32 bit kernel that
uses a seqcount. sequence counts are "lock" constructs where you need to
make sure that writers are serialized.

In turn, this means that we mustn't run two try_fill_recv concurrently.
Which of course we don't. We do run try_fill_recv sometimes from a
softirq napi context, and sometimes from a fully preemptible context,
but the later always runs with napi disabled.

However, when it comes to the seqcount, lockdep is trying to enforce the
rule that the same lock isn't accessed from preemptible and softirq
context - it doesn't know about napi being enabled/disabled. This causes
a false-positive warning:

WARNING: inconsistent lock state
...
inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage.

As a work around, shut down the warning by switching
to u64_stats_update_begin_irqsave - that works by disabling
interrupts on 32 bit only, is a NOP on 64 bit.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---

changes from v1:
	builds now. lightly tested

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 11f722460513..ce07f52d89e7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1243,9 +1243,11 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct receive_queue *rq,
 			break;
 	} while (rq->vq->num_free);
 	if (virtqueue_kick_prepare(rq->vq) && virtqueue_notify(rq->vq)) {
-		u64_stats_update_begin(&rq->stats.syncp);
+		unsigned long flags;
+
+		flags = u64_stats_update_begin_irqsave(&rq->stats.syncp);
 		rq->stats.kicks++;
-		u64_stats_update_end(&rq->stats.syncp);
+		u64_stats_update_end_irqrestore(&rq->stats.syncp, flags);
 	}
 
 	return !oom;
-- 
MST


             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-07  7:25 Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2020-05-07 14:58 ` David Miller

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