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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Hyong Youb Kim (hyonkim)" <hyonkim@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vfio: fix interrupts race condition
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:19:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4647179.CTOrK8BQiK@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR11MB18392141DEEF5C77A761FAD0BFCC0@MWHPR11MB1839.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

14/07/2019 07:10, Hyong Youb Kim (hyonkim):
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 6:21 AM
> [...]
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vfio: fix interrupts race condition
> > 
> > 10/07/2019 14:33, David Marchand:
> > > Populating the eventfd in rte_intr_enable in each request to vfio
> > > triggers a reconfiguration of the interrupt handler on the kernel side.
> > > The problem is that rte_intr_enable is often used to re-enable masked
> > > interrupts from drivers interrupt handlers.
> > >
> > > This reconfiguration leaves a window during which a device could send
> > > an interrupt and then the kernel logs this (unsolicited from the kernel
> > > point of view) interrupt:
> > > [158764.159833] do_IRQ: 9.34 No irq handler for vector
> > >
> > > VFIO api makes it possible to set the fd at setup time.
> > > Make use of this and then we only need to ask for masking/unmasking
> > > legacy interrupts and we have nothing to do for MSI/MSIX.
> > >
> > > "rxtx" interrupts are left untouched but are most likely subject to the
> > > same issue.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 5c782b3928b8 ("vfio: interrupts")
> > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > >
> > > Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1654824
> > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> > > Tested-by: Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>
> > 
> > This is a real bug which should be fixed in this release.
> > As the patch is quite big and needs a strong validation,
> > I prefer merging it quickly to give a lot of time before
> > releasing 19.08-rc2.
> > The maintainers of all concerned PMDs are Cc.
> > Please make sure the interrupts are still working well with VFIO.
> > 
> > Applied, thanks
> > 
> 
> [Apologies in advance if email format gets messed up. Forced to use
> outlook for the first time..]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This commit breaks MSI-X + rxq interrupts. I think others are seeing
> the same error?
> 
> sudo ~/dpdk/examples/l3fwd-power/build/l3fwd-power \
> -c 0x1e -n 4 -w 0000:1a:00.0 --log-level=pmd,debug -- -p 0x1 -P --config "(0,0,2),(0,1,3),(0,2,4)"
> [...]
> EAL: Error enabling MSI-X interrupts for fd 35
> 
> A rough sequence of events goes like this. The above test is using 3
> rxqs (3 interrupts).
> 
> 1. During probe, pci_vfio_setup_interrupts() runs.
> This now does ioctl(VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS) for the 1st efd
> (intr_handle->fd).
> 
> ioctl does:
> - pci_enable_msix(1 vector) because this is the first time enabling
>   interrupts.
> - request_irq(vector 0)
> 
> 2. App configs
> The app sets port_conf.intr_conf.rxq=1, configs 3 rxqs, etc.
> 
> 3. rte_eth_dev_start()
> PMD calls:
> - rte_intr_efd_enable()
>   This creates 3 efds (intr_handle->nb_efd = 3).
> - rte_intr_enable() => vfio_enable_msix()
>   This does ioctl(VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS) for the 3 efds.
> 
> ioctl now needs to request_irq() for vectors 1, 2, 3 for the 3 new
> efds. It does not do another pci_enable_msix() as it has been done
> earlier. Before calling request_irq(), it sees that only 1 vector was
> enabled in earlier pci_enable_msix(), so it fails with EINVAL.
> 
> We would need pci_enable_msix(4 vectors) for this to work
> (intr_handle->fd + 3 efds).
> 
> Prior to this patch, VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS is done only in
> vfio_enable_msix(). So, ioctl ends up doing pci_enable_msix(4 vectors)
> and request_irq() for each of the 4 efds, which completes
> successfully.
> 
> Not an expert in this area.. Perhaps, defer enabling 1st efd
> (intr_handle->fd) until the first invocation of vfio_enable_msix(), so
> it knows the app wants to use 4 vectors in total?
> 
> Also, vfio_disable_msix() looks a bit wrong.
> 
>         irq_set.flags = VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_NONE | VFIO_IRQ_SET_ACTION_TRIGGER;
>         irq_set.index = VFIO_PCI_MSIX_IRQ_INDEX;
>         irq_set.start = RTE_INTR_VEC_RXTX_OFFSET;
>         irq_set.count = intr_handle->nb_efd;
> 
> This tells vfio-pci to simulate interrupts by triggering efds? To
> free_irq() specific efds, I think we need DATA_EVENTFD and set fd =
> -1.
> 
> flags = DATA_EVENTFD | ACTION_TRIGGER
> data = [fd(-1), fd(-1), ...]
> 
> I have not tested this part myself yet.

Thanks for your detailed report Hyong.
Would you be able to propose a fix?



  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-14 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1562071706-11009-1-git-send-email-david.marchand@redhat.com>
2019-07-10 12:33 ` [dpdk-stable] " David Marchand
2019-07-10 21:20   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-14  5:10     ` Hyong Youb Kim (hyonkim)
2019-07-14 11:19       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-07-15  5:35         ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-15  7:20           ` Hyong Youb Kim (hyonkim)

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