net/mlx4_core: Fix deadlock when switching between polling and event fw commands
authorJack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:39:42 +0000 (14:39 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 01:52:43 +0000 (21:52 -0400)
When switching from polling-based fw commands to event-based fw
commands, there is a race condition which could cause a fw command
in another task to hang: that task will keep waiting for the polling
sempahore, but may never be able to acquire it. This is due to
mlx4_cmd_use_events, which "down"s the sempahore back to 0.

During driver initialization, this is not a problem, since no other
tasks which invoke FW commands are active.

However, there is a problem if the driver switches to polling mode
and then back to event mode during normal operation.

The "test_interrupts" feature does exactly that.
Running "ethtool -t <eth device> offline" causes the PF driver to
temporarily switch to polling mode, and then back to event mode.
(Note that for VF drivers, such switching is not performed).

Fix this by adding a read-write semaphore for protection when
switching between modes.

Fixes: 225c7b1feef1 ("IB/mlx4: Add a driver Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters")
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h

index f04a423..a58d96c 100644 (file)
@@ -785,17 +785,23 @@ int __mlx4_cmd(struct mlx4_dev *dev, u64 in_param, u64 *out_param,
                return mlx4_cmd_reset_flow(dev, op, op_modifier, -EIO);
 
        if (!mlx4_is_mfunc(dev) || (native && mlx4_is_master(dev))) {
+               int ret;
+
                if (dev->persist->state & MLX4_DEVICE_STATE_INTERNAL_ERROR)
                        return mlx4_internal_err_ret_value(dev, op,
                                                          op_modifier);
+               down_read(&mlx4_priv(dev)->cmd.switch_sem);
                if (mlx4_priv(dev)->cmd.use_events)
-                       return mlx4_cmd_wait(dev, in_param, out_param,
-                                            out_is_imm, in_modifier,
-                                            op_modifier, op, timeout);
+                       ret = mlx4_cmd_wait(dev, in_param, out_param,
+                                           out_is_imm, in_modifier,
+                                           op_modifier, op, timeout);
                else
-                       return mlx4_cmd_poll(dev, in_param, out_param,
-                                            out_is_imm, in_modifier,
-                                            op_modifier, op, timeout);
+                       ret = mlx4_cmd_poll(dev, in_param, out_param,
+                                           out_is_imm, in_modifier,
+                                           op_modifier, op, timeout);
+
+               up_read(&mlx4_priv(dev)->cmd.switch_sem);
+               return ret;
        }
        return mlx4_slave_cmd(dev, in_param, out_param, out_is_imm,
                              in_modifier, op_modifier, op, timeout);
@@ -2454,6 +2460,7 @@ int mlx4_cmd_init(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
        int flags = 0;
 
        if (!priv->cmd.initialized) {
+               init_rwsem(&priv->cmd.switch_sem);
                mutex_init(&priv->cmd.slave_cmd_mutex);
                sema_init(&priv->cmd.poll_sem, 1);
                priv->cmd.use_events = 0;
@@ -2583,6 +2590,7 @@ int mlx4_cmd_use_events(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
        if (!priv->cmd.context)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
+       down_write(&priv->cmd.switch_sem);
        for (i = 0; i < priv->cmd.max_cmds; ++i) {
                priv->cmd.context[i].token = i;
                priv->cmd.context[i].next  = i + 1;
@@ -2606,6 +2614,7 @@ int mlx4_cmd_use_events(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
 
        down(&priv->cmd.poll_sem);
        priv->cmd.use_events = 1;
+       up_write(&priv->cmd.switch_sem);
 
        return err;
 }
@@ -2618,6 +2627,7 @@ void mlx4_cmd_use_polling(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
        struct mlx4_priv *priv = mlx4_priv(dev);
        int i;
 
+       down_write(&priv->cmd.switch_sem);
        priv->cmd.use_events = 0;
 
        for (i = 0; i < priv->cmd.max_cmds; ++i)
@@ -2626,6 +2636,7 @@ void mlx4_cmd_use_polling(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
        kfree(priv->cmd.context);
 
        up(&priv->cmd.poll_sem);
+       up_write(&priv->cmd.switch_sem);
 }
 
 struct mlx4_cmd_mailbox *mlx4_alloc_cmd_mailbox(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
index c9d7fc5..c128ba3 100644 (file)
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <net/devlink.h>
+#include <linux/rwsem.h>
 
 #include <linux/mlx4/device.h>
 #include <linux/mlx4/driver.h>
@@ -627,6 +628,7 @@ struct mlx4_cmd {
        struct mutex            slave_cmd_mutex;
        struct semaphore        poll_sem;
        struct semaphore        event_sem;
+       struct rw_semaphore     switch_sem;
        int                     max_cmds;
        spinlock_t              context_lock;
        int                     free_head;