Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754126Ab0DNIH7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:07:59 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32361 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751440Ab0DNIH4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:07:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC57896.9060707@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:11:02 +0800 From: Cong Wang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091001) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Vosburgh CC: Stephen Hemminger , Eric Dumazet , Neil Horman , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andy Gospodarek , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jeff Moyer , Matt Mackall , David Miller Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] [v3 Patch 2/3] bridge: make bridge support netpoll References: <20100408062234.4499.17042.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20100408062246.4499.5670.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20100408083710.2b61ee44@nehalam> <4BC2F7E2.7020309@redhat.com> <1271068737.16881.18.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20100412083842.26d71bda@nehalam> <4BC43214.6030009@redhat.com> <8304.1271177567@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <8304.1271177567@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3005 Lines: 73 Jay Vosburgh wrote: > Cong Wang wrote: > >> Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:38:57 +0200 >>> Eric Dumazet wrote: >>> >>>> Le lundi 12 avril 2010 à 18:37 +0800, Cong Wang a écrit : >>>>> Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>>>>> There is no protection on dev->priv_flags for SMP access. >>>>>> It would better bit value in dev->state if you are using it as control flag. >>>>>> >>>>>> Then you could use >>>>>> if (unlikely(test_and_clear_bit(__IN_NETPOLL, &skb->dev->state))) >>>>>> netpoll_send_skb(...) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Hmm, I think we can't use ->state here, it is not for this kind of purpose, >>>>> according to its comments. >>>>> >>>>> Also, I find other usages of IFF_XXX flags of ->priv_flags are also using >>>>> &, | to set or clear the flags. So there must be some other things preventing >>>>> the race... >>>> Yes, its RTNL that protects priv_flags changes, hopefully... >>>> >>> The patch was not protecting priv_flags with RTNL. >>> For example.. >>> >>> >>> @@ -308,7 +312,9 @@ static void netpoll_send_skb(struct netp >>> tries > 0; --tries) { >>> if (__netif_tx_trylock(txq)) { >>> if (!netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq)) { >>> + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_IN_NETPOLL; >>> status = ops->ndo_start_xmit(skb, dev); >>> + dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_IN_NETPOLL; >>> if (status == NETDEV_TX_OK) >>> txq_trans_update(txq); >> Hmm, but I checked the bonding case (IFF_BONDING), it doesn't >> hold rtnl_lock. Strange. > > I looked, and there are a couple of cases in bonding that don't > have RTNL for adjusting priv_flags (in bond_ab_arp_probe when no slaves > are up, and a couple of cases in 802.3ad). I think the solution there > is to move bonding away from priv_flags for some of this (e.g., convert > bonding to use a frame hook like bridge and macvlan, and greatly > simplify skb_bond_should_drop), but that's a separate topic. > > The majority of the cases, however, do hold RTNL. Bonding > generally doesn't have to acquire RTNL itself, since whatever called > into bonding is holding it already. For example, the slave add and > remove paths (bond_enslave, bond_release) are called either via sysfs or > ioctl, both of which acquire RTNL. All of the set and clear operations > for IFF_BONDING fall into this category; look at bonding_store_slaves > for an example. > > Bonding does acquire RTNL itself when performing failovers, > e.g., bond_mii_monitor holds RTNL prior to calling bond_miimon_commit, > which will change priv_flags. > Thanks a lot for your reply! You are right, I missed something. Hmm, for bonding, RTNL lock is necessary because there are sysfs interface and ioctl interface to change its configuration. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/