From: "Rakesh Pillai" <pillair@codeaurora.org>
To: 'Johannes Berg' <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, evgreen@chromium.org,
dianders@chromium.org, kuba@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
kvalo@codeaurora.org
Subject: RE: [RFC 1/7] mac80211: Add check for napi handle before WARN_ON
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:56:18 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003201d6611e$c54a1c90$4fde55b0$@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0dbdef912f9d61521011f638200fd451a3530568.camel@sipsolutions.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 6:26 PM
> To: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@codeaurora.org>; ath10k@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> kvalo@codeaurora.org; davem@davemloft.net; kuba@kernel.org;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org; dianders@chromium.org; evgreen@chromium.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] mac80211: Add check for napi handle before
> WARN_ON
>
> On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 22:44 +0530, Rakesh Pillai wrote:
> > The function ieee80211_rx_napi can be now called
> > from a thread context as well, with napi context
> > being NULL.
> >
> > Hence add the napi context check before giving out
> > a warning for softirq count being 0.
> >
> > Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.3.1-01040-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@codeaurora.org>
> > ---
> > net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > index a88ab6f..1e703f1 100644
> > --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > @@ -4652,7 +4652,7 @@ void ieee80211_rx_napi(struct ieee80211_hw
> *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
> > struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
> > struct ieee80211_rx_status *status = IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb);
> >
> > - WARN_ON_ONCE(softirq_count() == 0);
> > + WARN_ON_ONCE(napi && softirq_count() == 0);
>
> FWIW, I'm pretty sure this is incorrect - we make assumptions on
> softirqs being disabled in mac80211 for serialization and in place of
> some locking, I believe.
>
I checked this, but let me double confirm.
But after this change, no packet is submitted from driver in a softirq context.
So ideally this should take care of serialization.
> johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-23 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-21 17:14 [RFC 0/7] Add support to process rx packets in thread Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 1/7] mac80211: Add check for napi handle before WARN_ON Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-22 12:56 ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-23 18:26 ` Rakesh Pillai [this message]
2020-07-23 20:06 ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-24 6:21 ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-26 16:19 ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-30 12:40 ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 2/7] ath10k: Add support to process rx packet in thread Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 21:53 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2020-07-22 12:27 ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-22 12:55 ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-22 13:00 ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-23 6:09 ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2021-03-22 23:57 ` Ben Greear
2021-03-23 1:20 ` Brian Norris
2021-03-23 3:01 ` Ben Greear
2021-03-23 7:45 ` Felix Fietkau
2021-03-25 9:45 ` Rakesh Pillai
2021-03-25 10:33 ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-23 18:25 ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-24 23:11 ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 3/7] ath10k: Add module param to enable rx thread Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 4/7] ath10k: Do not exhaust budget on process tx completion Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 5/7] ath10k: Handle the rx packet processing in thread Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 6/7] ath10k: Add deliver to stack from thread context Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 7/7] ath10k: Handle rx thread suspend and resume Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-23 23:06 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2020-07-24 6:19 ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:25 ` [RFC 0/7] Add support to process rx packets in thread Andrew Lunn
2020-07-21 18:05 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-23 18:21 ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-23 19:02 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-24 6:20 ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-24 22:28 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-22 9:12 ` David Laight
2020-07-25 8:16 ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-25 10:38 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2020-07-25 12:25 ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-25 14:08 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2020-07-25 14:57 ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-25 15:41 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2020-07-26 11:16 ` David Laight
2020-07-28 16:59 ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-29 1:34 ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-25 17:57 ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-26 1:22 ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-26 8:10 ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-26 8:32 ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-26 8:59 ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-22 16:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
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