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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 19:13:39 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Nick Child <nnac123@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, haren@...ux.ibm.com, ricklind@...ibm.com,
danymadden@...ibm.com, tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com, bjking1@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 5/5] ibmvnic: Ensure login failure recovery is safe
from other resets
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 15:20:10 -0500 Nick Child wrote:
> + do {
> + reinit_init_done(adapter);
> + /* Clear any failovers we got in the previous
> + * pass since we are re-initializing the CRQ
> + */
> + adapter->failover_pending = false;
> + release_crq_queue(adapter);
> + /* If we don't sleep here then we risk an
> + * unnecessary failover event from the VIOS.
> + * This is a known VIOS issue caused by a vnic
> + * device freeing and registering a CRQ too
> + * quickly.
> + */
> + msleep(1500);
> + /* Avoid any resets, since we are currently
> + * resetting.
> + */
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->rwi_lock, flags);
> + flush_reset_queue(adapter);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->rwi_lock,
> + flags);
> +
> + rc = init_crq_queue(adapter);
> + if (rc) {
> + netdev_err(netdev, "login recovery: init CRQ failed %d\n",
> + rc);
> + return -EIO;
> + }
>
> - rc = ibmvnic_reset_init(adapter, false);
> - if (rc) {
> - netdev_err(netdev, "login recovery: Reset init failed %d\n",
> - rc);
> - return -EIO;
> - }
> + rc = ibmvnic_reset_init(adapter, false);
> + if (rc)
> + netdev_err(netdev, "login recovery: Reset init failed %d\n",
> + rc);
> + /* IBMVNIC_CRQ_INIT will return EAGAIN if it
> + * fails, since ibmvnic_reset_init will free
> + * irq's in failure, we won't be able to receive
> + * new CRQs so we need to keep trying. probe()
> + * handles this similarly.
> + */
> + } while (rc == -EAGAIN);
Isn't this potentially an infinite loop? Can we limit the max number of
iterations here or something already makes this loop safe?
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