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From: Alexander Gordeev <a.gordeev.box@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Michael Chen <micchen@altera.com>,
	dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dmaengine: avalon: Intel Avalon-MM DMA Interface for PCIe
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:51:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191010085144.GA14197@AlexGordeev-DPT-VI0092> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191009185323.GG13286@kadam>

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:53:23PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > +	u32 *rd_flags = hw->dma_desc_table_rd.cpu_addr->flags;
> > > > +	u32 *wr_flags = hw->dma_desc_table_wr.cpu_addr->flags;
> > > > +	struct avalon_dma_desc *desc;
> > > > +	struct virt_dma_desc *vdesc;
> > > > +	bool rd_done;
> > > > +	bool wr_done;
> > > > +
> > > > +	spin_lock(lock);
> > > > +
> > > > +	rd_done = (hw->h2d_last_id < 0);
> > > > +	wr_done = (hw->d2h_last_id < 0);
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (rd_done && wr_done) {
> > > > +		spin_unlock(lock);
> > > > +		return IRQ_NONE;
> > > > +	}
> > > > +
> > > > +	do {
> > > > +		if (!rd_done && rd_flags[hw->h2d_last_id])
> > > > +			rd_done = true;
> > > > +
> > > > +		if (!wr_done && wr_flags[hw->d2h_last_id])
> > > > +			wr_done = true;
> > > > +	} while (!rd_done || !wr_done);
> > > 
> > > This loop is very strange.  It feels like the last_id indexes needs
> > > to atomic or protected from racing somehow so we don't do an out of
> > > bounds read.

[...]

> You're missing my point.  When we set
> hw->d2h_last_id = 1;
[1]
> ...
> hw->d2h_last_id = 2;
[2]

> There is a tiny moment where ->d2h_last_id is transitioning from 1 to 2
> where its value is unknown.  We're in a busy loop here so we have a
> decent chance of hitting that 1/1000,000th of a second.  If we happen to
> hit it at exactly the right time then we're reading from a random
> address and it will cause an oops.
> 
> We have to use atomic_t types or something to handle race conditions.

Err.. I am still missing the point :( In your example I do see a chance
for a reader to read out 1 at point in time [2] - because of SMP race.
But what could it be other than 1 or 2?

Anyways, all code paths dealing with h2d_last_id and d2h_last_id indexes
are protected with a spinlock.

> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-09 10:12 [PATCH v2 0/2] dmaengine: avalon: Support Avalon-MM DMA Interface for PCIe Alexander Gordeev
2019-10-09 10:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] dmaengine: avalon: Intel " Alexander Gordeev
2019-10-09 12:14   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-09 14:58     ` Alexander Gordeev
2019-10-09 18:53       ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-10  8:51         ` Alexander Gordeev [this message]
2019-10-10 11:30           ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-15 11:24             ` Alexander Gordeev
2019-10-15 11:41               ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-15 12:27                 ` Alexander Gordeev
2019-10-15 13:19               ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-15 14:31                 ` Alexander Gordeev
2019-10-15 14:47                   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-09 13:07   ` Greg KH
2019-10-15 10:33   ` Vinod Koul
2019-10-15 13:11     ` Alexander Gordeev
2019-10-09 10:12 ` [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] dmaengine: avalon: Intel Avalon-MM DMA Interface for PCIe test Alexander Gordeev
2019-10-09 13:08   ` Greg KH
2019-10-09 13:46   ` Dan Carpenter

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