From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] virtio_net: Stop doing DMA from the stack Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:08:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20151028090754-mutt-send-email-mst__6971.14997678927$1446016125$gmane$org@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: linux-s390 , Joerg Roedel , KVM , benh@kernel.crashing.org, Sebastian Ott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Christian Borntraeger , Paolo Bonzini , Andy Lutomirski , dwmw2@infradead.org, Christoph Hellwig , Martin Schwidefsky List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:38:58PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > From: Andy Lutomirski > > Once virtio starts using the DMA API, we won't be able to safely DMA > from the stack. virtio-net does a couple of config DMA requests > from small stack buffers -- switch to using dynamically-allocated > memory. > > This should have no effect on any performance-critical code paths. > > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" > Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org > Reviewed-by: Joerg Roedel > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Same issues as v2 (I only saw v3 now). I've proposed an alternative patch. > --- > > Hi Michael and DaveM- > > This is a prerequisite for the virtio DMA fixing project. It works > as a standalone patch, though. Would it make sense to apply it to > an appropriate networking tree now? > > (This is unchanged from v2.) > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- > 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c > index d8838dedb7a4..4f10f8a58811 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c > @@ -976,31 +976,43 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd, > struct scatterlist *out) > { > struct scatterlist *sgs[4], hdr, stat; > - struct virtio_net_ctrl_hdr ctrl; > - virtio_net_ctrl_ack status = ~0; > + > + struct { > + struct virtio_net_ctrl_hdr ctrl; > + virtio_net_ctrl_ack status; > + } *buf; > + > unsigned out_num = 0, tmp; > + bool ret; > > /* Caller should know better */ > BUG_ON(!virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ)); > > - ctrl.class = class; > - ctrl.cmd = cmd; > + buf = kmalloc(sizeof(*buf), GFP_ATOMIC); > + if (!buf) > + return false; > + buf->status = ~0; > + > + buf->ctrl.class = class; > + buf->ctrl.cmd = cmd; > /* Add header */ > - sg_init_one(&hdr, &ctrl, sizeof(ctrl)); > + sg_init_one(&hdr, &buf->ctrl, sizeof(buf->ctrl)); > sgs[out_num++] = &hdr; > > if (out) > sgs[out_num++] = out; > > /* Add return status. */ > - sg_init_one(&stat, &status, sizeof(status)); > + sg_init_one(&stat, &buf->status, sizeof(buf->status)); > sgs[out_num] = &stat; > > BUG_ON(out_num + 1 > ARRAY_SIZE(sgs)); > virtqueue_add_sgs(vi->cvq, sgs, out_num, 1, vi, GFP_ATOMIC); > > - if (unlikely(!virtqueue_kick(vi->cvq))) > - return status == VIRTIO_NET_OK; > + if (unlikely(!virtqueue_kick(vi->cvq))) { > + ret = (buf->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK); > + goto out; > + } > > /* Spin for a response, the kick causes an ioport write, trapping > * into the hypervisor, so the request should be handled immediately. > @@ -1009,7 +1021,11 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd, > !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq)) > cpu_relax(); > > - return status == VIRTIO_NET_OK; > + ret = (buf->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK); > + > +out: > + kfree(buf); > + return ret; > } > > static int virtnet_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p) > @@ -1151,7 +1167,7 @@ static void virtnet_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *dev) > { > struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev); > struct scatterlist sg[2]; > - u8 promisc, allmulti; > + u8 *cmdbyte; > struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac *mac_data; > struct netdev_hw_addr *ha; > int uc_count; > @@ -1163,22 +1179,25 @@ static void virtnet_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *dev) > if (!virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX)) > return; > > - promisc = ((dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC) != 0); > - allmulti = ((dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) != 0); > + cmdbyte = kmalloc(sizeof(*cmdbyte), GFP_ATOMIC); > + if (!cmdbyte) > + return; > > - sg_init_one(sg, &promisc, sizeof(promisc)); > + sg_init_one(sg, cmdbyte, sizeof(*cmdbyte)); > > + *cmdbyte = ((dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC) != 0); > if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX, > VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_PROMISC, sg)) > dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Failed to %sable promisc mode.\n", > - promisc ? "en" : "dis"); > - > - sg_init_one(sg, &allmulti, sizeof(allmulti)); > + *cmdbyte ? "en" : "dis"); > > + *cmdbyte = ((dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) != 0); > if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX, > VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RX_ALLMULTI, sg)) > dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Failed to %sable allmulti mode.\n", > - allmulti ? "en" : "dis"); > + *cmdbyte ? "en" : "dis"); > + > + kfree(cmdbyte); > > uc_count = netdev_uc_count(dev); > mc_count = netdev_mc_count(dev); > -- > 2.4.3