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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>2010-12-06 09:05:50 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-12-09 20:33:46 -0800
commitfb4fa76a1fa59340154c42d998d700e1f8bf21e0 (patch)
treec9d66f1bd9468708ad5a241aa818c075f93f071f /drivers/net/bonding
parent4e085e76cbe558b79b54cbab772f61185879bc64 (diff)
net: Convert netpoll blocking api in bonding driver to be a counter
A while back I made some changes to enable netpoll in the bonding driver. Among them was a per-cpu flag that indicated we were in a path that held locks which could cause the netpoll path to block in during tx, and as such the tx path should queue the frame for later use. This appears to have given rise to a regression. If one of those paths on which we hold the per-cpu flag yields the cpu, its possible for us to come back on a different cpu, leading to us clearing a different flag than we set. This results in odd netpoll drops, and BUG backtraces appearing in the log, as we check to make sure that we only clear set bits, and only set clear bits. I had though briefly about changing the offending paths so that they wouldn't sleep, but looking at my origional work more closely, it doesn't appear that a per-cpu flag is warranted. We alrady gate the checking of this flag on IFF_IN_NETPOLL, so we don't hit this in the normal tx case anyway. And practically speaking, the normal use case for netpoll is to only have one client anyway, so we're not going to erroneously queue netpoll frames when its actually safe to do so. As such, lets just convert that per-cpu flag to an atomic counter. It fixes the rescheduling bugs, is equivalent from a performance perspective and actually eliminates some code in the process. Tested by the reporter and myself, successfully Reported-by: Liang Zheng <lzheng@redhat.com> CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bonding')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c17
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h12
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 2fee00a4c9ef..d0ea760ce419 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(resend_igmp, "Number of IGMP membership reports to send on link
/*----------------------------- Global variables ----------------------------*/
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
-cpumask_var_t netpoll_block_tx;
+atomic_t netpoll_block_tx = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
#endif
static const char * const version =
@@ -5299,13 +5299,6 @@ static int __init bonding_init(void)
if (res)
goto out;
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
- if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&netpoll_block_tx, GFP_KERNEL)) {
- res = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }
-#endif
-
res = register_pernet_subsys(&bond_net_ops);
if (res)
goto out;
@@ -5334,9 +5327,6 @@ err:
rtnl_link_unregister(&bond_link_ops);
err_link:
unregister_pernet_subsys(&bond_net_ops);
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
- free_cpumask_var(netpoll_block_tx);
-#endif
goto out;
}
@@ -5353,7 +5343,10 @@ static void __exit bonding_exit(void)
unregister_pernet_subsys(&bond_net_ops);
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
- free_cpumask_var(netpoll_block_tx);
+ /*
+ * Make sure we don't have an imbalance on our netpoll blocking
+ */
+ WARN_ON(atomic_read(&netpoll_block_tx));
#endif
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
index 4eedb12df6ca..c2f081352a03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
@@ -119,26 +119,22 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
-extern cpumask_var_t netpoll_block_tx;
+extern atomic_t netpoll_block_tx;
static inline void block_netpoll_tx(void)
{
- preempt_disable();
- BUG_ON(cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(),
- netpoll_block_tx));
+ atomic_inc(&netpoll_block_tx);
}
static inline void unblock_netpoll_tx(void)
{
- BUG_ON(!cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(),
- netpoll_block_tx));
- preempt_enable();
+ atomic_dec(&netpoll_block_tx);
}
static inline int is_netpoll_tx_blocked(struct net_device *dev)
{
if (unlikely(dev->priv_flags & IFF_IN_NETPOLL))
- return cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), netpoll_block_tx);
+ return atomic_read(&netpoll_block_tx);
return 0;
}
#else