On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:55:55AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eduardo Otubo [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 20 November 2017 10:41
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; Paul Durrant <[email protected]>; Wei
> > Liu <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> > [email protected]; Eduardo Otubo <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [PATCH] xen-netfront: remove warning when unloading module
> >
> > When unloading module xen_netfront from guest, dmesg would output
> > warning messages like below:
> >
> > [ 105.236836] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x903 still in use!
> > [ 105.236839] deferring g.e. 0x903 (pfn 0x35805)
> >
> > This problem relies on netfront and netback being out of sync. By the time
> > netfront revokes the g.e.'s netback didn't have enough time to free all of
> > them, hence displaying the warnings on dmesg.
> >
> > The trick here is to make netfront to wait until netback frees all the g.e.'s
> > and only then continue to cleanup for the module removal, and this is done
> > by
> > manipulating both device states.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> > index 8b8689c6d887..b948e2a1ce40 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> > @@ -2130,6 +2130,17 @@ static int xennet_remove(struct xenbus_device
> > *dev)
> >
> > dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", dev->nodename);
> >
> > + xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosing);
> > + while (xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) !=
> > XenbusStateClosing){
> > + cpu_relax();
> > + schedule();
> > + }
> > + xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosed);
> > + while (dev->xenbus_state != XenbusStateClosed){
> > + cpu_relax();
> > + schedule();
> > + }
> > +
>
> Waitiing for closing should be ok but waiting for closed is risky. As soon as a backend is in the closed state then a toolstack can completely remove the backend xenstore area, resulting a state of XenbusStateUnknown, which would cause your second loop to spin forever.
>
> Paul
Well, that's a scenario I didn't foresee. I'll come up with a solution in order
avoid this problem. Thanks for the review.
>
> > xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
> >
> > unregister_netdev(info->netdev);
> > --
> > 2.13.6
>
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Eduardo Otubo
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