From: Vlad Zakharov <Vladislav.Zakharov@synopsys.com>
To: "edumazet@google.com" <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"eladkan@mellanox.com" <eladkan@mellanox.com>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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"Vladislav.Zakharov@synopsys.com"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ezchip: nps_enet: check if napi has been completed
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:16:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1490865403.32756.21.camel@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANn89iJ1+7CrF=hJj-_pLWV+EDXxhUZGOL+3je6zjE8dJDcr=A@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Eric,
On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 14:41 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:30 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Zakharov <vzakhar@synopsys.com>
> >
> >
> > Applied.
> >
> > Eric, if this is really required now, we have 148 broken drivers still.
>
> Piece of cake :/
>
> If we get more reports like that, we might implement a logic to
> prevent infinite loops.
>
> It is not clear to me what exactly happened to this driver, since
> testing napi_complete_done() was not mandatory.
I am not sure what is happening with other drivers, but in case of ezchip nps_enet driver after the following commit:
39e6c8208d7b6fb9d2047850fb3327db567b564b
if we got into NAPI_STATE_MISSED state the following happened:
in nps_enet_poll func we were calling napi_complete_done() (which reset MISSED state but left SCHED state) and after
that without any checks were enabling interrupts.
Then we obviously were getting into nps_enet_irq_hanlder() if irq was pending (it is very possbile state). If we look
inside this function we will see that it disables interrupts only in case napi_sched_prep() returns true. In its turn
napi_sched_prep() returns true only in case it changes state from non-SCHED to SCHED. But in our case as SCHED had been
already set it set MISSED state and then returned false. So at that point we had already been trapped: after exiting irq
hanlder we were getting into nps_enet_irq_hanlder() again and again as we couldn't rescind pending irq signal and
disable corresponding irq.
--
Best regards,
Vlad Zakharov <vzakhar@synopsys.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-30 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-29 10:41 [PATCH] ezchip: nps_enet: check if napi has been completed Vlad Zakharov
2017-03-29 14:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-03-29 21:30 ` David Miller
2017-03-29 21:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-03-30 9:16 ` Vlad Zakharov [this message]
2017-03-30 13:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-04-26 12:56 ` Vlad Zakharov
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