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Message-ID: <KL1P15301MB0006F7C015D8D113FC2ACD1DBFDA0@KL1P15301MB0006.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
Date:   Mon, 5 Mar 2018 05:11:35 +0000
From:   Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
To:     "Michael Kelley (EOSG)" <Michael.H.Kelley@...rosoft.com>,
        "bhelgaas@...gle.com" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org" 
        <driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        "olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
        "apw@...onical.com" <apw@...onical.com>,
        "jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "vkuznets@...hat.com" <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "marcelo.cerri@...onical.com" <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>,
        Jack Morgenstein <jackm@...lanox.com>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/3] PCI: hv: serialize the present/eject work items

> From: Michael Kelley (EOSG)
> Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2018 08:10
> > From: linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org <linux-kernel-
> owner@...r.kernel.org> On Behalf Of Dexuan Cui
> > Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 4:21 PM
> > When we hot-remove the device, we first receive a PCI_EJECT message and
> > then receive a PCI_BUS_RELATIONS message with bus_rel->device_count ==
> 0.
> >
> > The first message is offloaded to hv_eject_device_work(), and the second
> > is offloaded to pci_devices_present_work(). Both the paths can be running
> > list_del(&hpdev->list_entry), causing general protection fault, because
> > system_wq can run them concurrently.
> >
> > The patch eliminates the race condition.
> 
> With this patch, the enum_sem field in struct hv_pcibus_device
> is no longer needed.  The semaphore serializes execution in
> hv_pci_devices_present_work(), and that serialization is now done
> with the ordered workqueue.  Also, the last paragraph of the top level
> comment for hv_pci_devices_present_work() should be updated to
> reflect the new ordering assumptions.

Thanks! I'll make an extra patch for this.

> Separately, an unrelated bug:  At the top of hv_eject_device_work(),
> the first test may do a put_pcichild() and return.  This exit path also
> needs to do put_hvpcibus() to balance the ref counts, or do a goto
> the last two lines at the bottom of the function.

When we're in hv_eject_device_work(), IMO hpdev->state must be 
hv_pcichild_ejecting, so I'm going to make a patch like this:

@@ -1867,10 +1867,7 @@ static void hv_eject_device_work(struct work_struct *work)

        hpdev = container_of(work, struct hv_pci_dev, wrk);

-       if (hpdev->state != hv_pcichild_ejecting) {
-               put_pcichild(hpdev, hv_pcidev_ref_pnp);
-               return;
-       }
+       WARN_ON(hpdev->state != hv_pcichild_ejecting);

        /*
         * Ejection can come before or after the PCI bus has been set up, so
 
> > @@ -1770,7 +1772,7 @@ static void hv_pci_devices_present(struct
> hv_pcibus_device *hbus,
> >  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hbus->device_list_lock, flags);
> >
> >  	get_hvpcibus(hbus);
> > -	schedule_work(&dr_wrk->wrk);
> > +	queue_work(hbus->wq, &dr_wrk->wrk);
> 
> This invocation of get_hvpcibus() and queue_work() could be made
> conditional on whether the preceding list_add_tail() transitioned
> the list from empty to non-empty.  If the list was already non-empty,
> a previously queued invocation of hv_pci_devices_present_work()
> will find the new entry and process it.   But this is an
> optimization in a non-perf sensitive code path, so may not be
> worth it.

Exactly. I'll add the the optimization.

> > @@ -1848,7 +1850,7 @@ static void hv_pci_eject_device(struct hv_pci_dev
> *hpdev)
> >  	get_pcichild(hpdev, hv_pcidev_ref_pnp);
> >  	INIT_WORK(&hpdev->wrk, hv_eject_device_work);
> >  	get_hvpcibus(hpdev->hbus);
> > -	schedule_work(&hpdev->wrk);
> > +	queue_work(hpdev->hbus->wq, &hpdev->wrk);
> >  }
> >
> >  /**
> > @@ -2463,11 +2465,17 @@ static int hv_pci_probe(struct hv_device *hdev,
> >  	spin_lock_init(&hbus->retarget_msi_interrupt_lock);
> >  	sema_init(&hbus->enum_sem, 1);
> >  	init_completion(&hbus->remove_event);
> > +	hbus->wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("hv_pci_%x", 0,
> > +					   hbus->sysdata.domain);
> > +	if (!hbus->wq) {
> > +		ret = -ENOMEM;
> > +		goto free_bus;
> > +	}
> >
> >  	ret = vmbus_open(hdev->channel, pci_ring_size, pci_ring_size, NULL, 0,
> >  			 hv_pci_onchannelcallback, hbus);
> >  	if (ret)
> > -		goto free_bus;
> > +		goto destroy_wq;
> >
> >  	hv_set_drvdata(hdev, hbus);
> >
> > @@ -2536,6 +2544,9 @@ static int hv_pci_probe(struct hv_device *hdev,
> >  	hv_free_config_window(hbus);
> >  close:
> >  	vmbus_close(hdev->channel);
> > +destroy_wq:
> > +	drain_workqueue(hbus->wq);
> 
> The drain_workqueue() call isn't necessary.  destroy_workqueue() calls
> drain_workqueue() and there better not be anything in the workqueue
> anyway since all the ref counts are zero.

OK. Will remove it.

> > +	destroy_workqueue(hbus->wq);
> >  free_bus:
> >  	free_page((unsigned long)hbus);
> >  	return ret;
> > @@ -2615,6 +2626,8 @@ static int hv_pci_remove(struct hv_device *hdev)
> >  	irq_domain_free_fwnode(hbus->sysdata.fwnode);
> >  	put_hvpcibus(hbus);
> >  	wait_for_completion(&hbus->remove_event);
> > +	drain_workqueue(hbus->wq);
> 
> Same here -- drain_workqueue() isn't needed.  The workqueue
> must be empty anyway since the remove_event has completed
> and the ref counts will all be zero.

Will remove it.

> > +	destroy_workqueue(hbus->wq);

I'm going to post a v2 patchset tomorrow.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan

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