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From: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
To: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>,
	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
	Dyasly Sergey <s.dyasly@samsung.com>,
	Heetae Ahn <heetae82.ahn@samsung.com>,
	Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix segfault on bad descriptor address.
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:01:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57511D3B.1000300@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGSMBPN_ER2RcVHPTdWJu5xQ4zi=Q2vEQRAf-NJ1kTh9=q3TGg@mail.gmail.com>

On 02.06.2016 19:22, Rich Lane wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com <mailto:i.maximets@samsung.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi, Rich.
>     Thank you for testing and analysing.
> 
>     On 01.06.2016 01:06, Rich Lane wrote:
>     > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:50 AM, Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com <mailto:i.maximets@samsung.com> <mailto:i.maximets@samsung.com <mailto:i.maximets@samsung.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     In current implementation guest application can reinitialize vrings
>     >     by executing start after stop. In the same time host application
>     >     can still poll virtqueue while device stopped in guest and it will
>     >     crash with segmentation fault while vring reinitialization because
>     >     of dereferencing of bad descriptor addresses.
>     >
>     >
>     > I see a performance regression with this patch at large packet sizes (> 768 bytes). rte_vhost_enqueue_burst is consuming 10% more cycles. Strangely, there's actually a ~1% performance improvement at small packet sizes.
>     >
>     > The regression happens with GCC 4.8.4 and 5.3.0, but not 6.1.1.
>     >
>     > AFAICT this is just the compiler generating bad code. One difference is that it's storing the offset on the stack instead of in a register. A workaround is to move the !desc_addr check outside the unlikely macros.
>     >
>     >     --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c
>     >     +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c
>     >     @@ -147,10 +147,10 @@ copy_mbuf_to_desc(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
>     >             struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf virtio_hdr = {{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, 0};
>     >
>     >             desc = &vq->desc[desc_idx];
>     >     -       if (unlikely(desc->len < vq->vhost_hlen))
>     >     +       desc_addr = gpa_to_vva(dev, desc->addr);
>     >     +       if (unlikely(desc->len < vq->vhost_hlen || !desc_addr))
>     >
>     >
>     >  Workaround: change to "if (unlikely(desc->len < vq->vhost_hlen) || !desc_addr)".
>     >
>     >                     return -1;
>     >
>     >
>     >     -       desc_addr = gpa_to_vva(dev, desc->addr);
>     >             rte_prefetch0((void *)(uintptr_t)desc_addr);
>     >
>     >             virtio_enqueue_offload(m, &virtio_hdr.hdr);
>     >     @@ -184,6 +184,9 @@ copy_mbuf_to_desc(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
>     >
>     >                             desc = &vq->desc[desc->next];
>     >                             desc_addr   = gpa_to_vva(dev, desc->addr);
>     >     +                       if (unlikely(!desc_addr))
>     >
>     >
>     > Workaround: change to "if (!desc_addr)".
>     >
>     >
>     >     +                               return -1;
>     >     +
>     >                             desc_offset = 0;
>     >                             desc_avail  = desc->len;
>     >                     }
>     >
> 
>     What about other places? Is there same issues or it's only inside copy_mbuf_to_desc() ?
> 
> 
> Only copy_mbuf_to_desc has the issue.

Ok.
Actually, I can't reproduce this performance issue using gcc 4.8.5 from RHEL 7.2.
I'm not sure if I should post v2 with above fixes. May be them could be applied
while pushing patch to repository? 

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-03  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-20 12:50 Ilya Maximets
2016-05-23 10:57 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-23 11:04   ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-30 11:05     ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-30 14:25       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-31  9:12         ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-30 12:00 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-30 12:24   ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-31  6:53     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-31  9:10       ` Ilya Maximets
2016-05-31 22:06 ` Rich Lane
2016-06-02 10:46   ` Ilya Maximets
2016-06-02 16:22     ` Rich Lane
2016-06-03  6:01       ` Ilya Maximets [this message]
2016-07-01  7:35 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-06 11:19   ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-06 12:24     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-08 11:48       ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-10 13:17         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-11  8:38           ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-11  9:50             ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-11 11:05               ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-11 11:47                 ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-12  2:43                   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-12  5:53                     ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-13  7:34                       ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-13  8:47                         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-13 15:54                           ` Rich Lane
2016-07-14  1:42                             ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-14  4:38                               ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-14  8:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15  6:17   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-15  7:23     ` Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15  8:40       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-15 11:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] " Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15 11:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] vhost: fix using of bad return value on mergeable enqueue Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15 11:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] vhost: do sanity check for ring descriptor address Ilya Maximets
2016-07-15 12:14   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] vhost: fix segfault on bad " Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-15 19:37     ` Thomas Monjalon

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