From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"dmaengine@vger.kernel.org" <dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] dmaengine: Store module owner in dma_device struct
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:42:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ae58ea7-5cab-23f9-512f-bec30410ff6f@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gnvQsAen0DUW3o4Kv1WPW28Q00+mxBowUN8yMy6Kmgvw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/22/19 2:01 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 12:56 PM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2019-11-22 1:50 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:53 AM Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/21/19 10:20 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>>>> On 14-11-19, 10:03, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2019-11-13 9:55 p.m., Vinod Koul wrote:
>>>>>>>> But that's the problem. We can't expect our users to be "nice" and not
>>>>>>>> unbind when the driver is in use. Killing the kernel if the user
>>>>>>>> unexpectedly unbinds is not acceptable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And that is why we review the code and ensure this does not happen and
>>>>>>> behaviour is as expected
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, but the current code can kill the kernel when the driver is unbound.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I suspect this is less of an issue for most devices as they wouldn't
>>>>>>>>>> normally be unbound while in use (for example there's really no reason
>>>>>>>>>> to ever unbind IOAT seeing it's built into the system). Though, the fact
>>>>>>>>>> is, the user could unbind these devices at anytime and we don't want to
>>>>>>>>>> panic if they do.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There are many drivers which do modules so yes I am expecting unbind and
>>>>>>>>> even a bind following that to work
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Except they will panic if they unbind while in use, so that's a
>>>>>>>> questionable definition of "work".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> dmaengine core has module reference so while they are being used they
>>>>>>> won't be removed (unless I complete misread the driver core behaviour)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, as I mentioned in my other email, holding a module reference does
>>>>>> not prevent the driver from being unbound. Any driver can be unbound by
>>>>>> the user at any time without the module being removed.
>>>>>
>>>>> That sounds okay then.
>>>>
>>>> I'm actually glad Logan is putting some work in addressing this. I also
>>>> ran into the same issue as well dealing with unbinds on my new driver.
>>>
>>> This was an original mistake of the dmaengine implementation that
>>> Vinod inherited. Module pinning is distinct from preventing device
>>> unbind which ultimately can't be prevented. Longer term I think we
>>> need to audit dmaengine consumers to make sure they are prepared for
>>> the driver to be removed similar to how other request based drivers
>>> can gracefully return an error status when the device goes away rather
>>> than crashing.
>>
>> Yes, but that will be a big project because there are a lot of drivers.
>
> Oh yes, in fact I think it's something that can only reasonably be
> considered for new consumers.
>
>> But I think the dmaengine common code needs to support removal properly,
>> which essentially means changing how all the drivers allocate and free
>> their structures, among other things.
>>
>> The one saving grace is that most of the drivers are for SOCs which
>> can't be physically removed and there's really no use-case for the user
>> to call unbind.
>
> Yes, the SOC case is not so much my concern as the generic offload use
> cases, especially if those offloads are in a similar hotplug domain as
> a cpu.
>
It becomes a bigger issue when "channels" can be reconfigured and can
come and go in a hot plug fashion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-22 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-22 21:46 [PATCH 0/5] PLX Switch DMA Engine Driver Logan Gunthorpe
2019-10-22 21:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] dmaengine: Store module owner in dma_device struct Logan Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 17:18 ` Vinod Koul
2019-11-11 16:50 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-11-12 5:56 ` Vinod Koul
2019-11-12 16:45 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-11-14 4:55 ` Vinod Koul
2019-11-14 17:03 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-11-22 5:20 ` Vinod Koul
2019-11-22 16:53 ` Dave Jiang
2019-11-22 20:50 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-22 20:56 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-11-22 21:01 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-22 21:42 ` Dave Jiang [this message]
2019-12-10 9:53 ` Vinod Koul
2019-12-10 17:39 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-10-22 21:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] dmaengine: Call module_put() after device_free_chan_resources() Logan Gunthorpe
2019-10-22 21:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] dmaengine: plx-dma: Introduce PLX DMA engine PCI driver skeleton Logan Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 17:35 ` Vinod Koul
2019-11-11 17:50 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-11-12 6:09 ` Vinod Koul
2019-11-12 17:22 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-10-22 21:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] dmaengine: plx-dma: Implement hardware initialization and cleanup Logan Gunthorpe
2019-10-22 21:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] dmaengine: plx-dma: Implement descriptor submission Logan Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 17:40 ` Vinod Koul
2019-11-11 18:11 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-12-16 19:01 [PATCH 0/5] Support hot-unbind in IOAT Logan Gunthorpe
2019-12-16 19:01 ` [PATCH 1/5] dmaengine: Store module owner in dma_device struct Logan Gunthorpe
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