RE: [PATCH v7] net/ice: fix ice dcf control thread crash

["Zhang, Qi Z" <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ye, MingjinX <mingjinx.ye@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 10:09 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Yang, Qiming <qiming.yang@intel.com>; stable@dpdk.org; Zhou, YidingX
> <yidingx.zhou@intel.com>; Ye, MingjinX <mingjinx.ye@intel.com>; Zhang,
> Ke1X <ke1x.zhang@intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v7] net/ice: fix ice dcf control thread crash
> 
> The control thread accesses the hardware resources after the resources were
> released, which results in a segment error.
> 
> The 'ice-reset' threads are detached, so thread resources cannot be
> reclaimed by `pthread_join` calls.
> 
> This commit synchronizes the number of "ice-reset" threads by adding a
> variable ("vsi_update_thread_num") to the "struct ice_dcf_hw" and
> performing an atomic operation on this variable. When releasing HW
> resources, we wait for the number of "ice-reset" threads to be reduced to 0
> before releasing the resources.
> 
> Fixes: c7e1a1a3bfeb ("net/ice: refactor DCF VLAN handling")
> Fixes: 3b3757bda3c3 ("net/ice: get VF hardware index in DCF")
> Fixes: 7564d5509611 ("net/ice: add DCF hardware initialization")
> Fixes: 0b02c9519432 ("net/ice: handle PF initialization by DCF")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ke Zhang <ke1x.zhang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye@intel.com>

Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks
Qi