Re: [PATCH net] ixgbe: fix double clean of tx descriptors with xdp

[Alexander Duyck]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 8:18 AM Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tx code doesn't clear the descriptor status after cleaning.
> So, if the budget is larger than number of used elems in a ring, some
> descriptors will be accounted twice and xsk_umem_complete_tx will move
> prod_tail far beyond the prod_head breaking the comletion queue ring.
>
> Fix that by limiting the number of descriptors to clean by the number
> of used descriptors in the tx ring.
>
> Fixes: 8221c5eba8c1 ("ixgbe: add AF_XDP zero-copy Tx support")
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not sure this is the best way to go. My preference would be to
have something in the ring that would prevent us from racing which I
don't think this really addresses. I am pretty sure this code is safe
on x86 but I would be worried about weak ordered systems such as
PowerPC.

It might make sense to look at adding the eop_desc logic like we have
in the regular path with a proper barrier before we write it and after
we read it. So for example we could hold of on writing the bytecount
value until the end of an iteration and call smp_wmb before we write
it. Then on the cleanup we could read it and if it is non-zero we take
an smp_rmb before proceeding further to process the Tx descriptor and
clearing the value. Otherwise this code is going to just keep popping
up with issues.

> ---
>
> Not tested yet because of lack of available hardware.
> So, testing is very welcome.
>
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h      | 10 ++++++++++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 12 +-----------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c  |  6 ++++--
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
> index 39e73ad60352..0befcef46e80 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
> @@ -512,6 +512,16 @@ static inline u16 ixgbe_desc_unused(struct ixgbe_ring *ring)
>         return ((ntc > ntu) ? 0 : ring->count) + ntc - ntu - 1;
>  }
>
> +static inline u64 ixgbe_desc_used(struct ixgbe_ring *ring)
> +{
> +       unsigned int head, tail;
> +
> +       head = ring->next_to_clean;
> +       tail = ring->next_to_use;
> +
> +       return ((head <= tail) ? tail : tail + ring->count) - head;
> +}
> +
>  #define IXGBE_RX_DESC(R, i)        \
>         (&(((union ixgbe_adv_rx_desc *)((R)->desc))[i]))
>  #define IXGBE_TX_DESC(R, i)        \
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> index 7882148abb43..d417237857d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> @@ -1012,21 +1012,11 @@ static u64 ixgbe_get_tx_completed(struct ixgbe_ring *ring)
>         return ring->stats.packets;
>  }
>
> -static u64 ixgbe_get_tx_pending(struct ixgbe_ring *ring)
> -{
> -       unsigned int head, tail;
> -
> -       head = ring->next_to_clean;
> -       tail = ring->next_to_use;
> -
> -       return ((head <= tail) ? tail : tail + ring->count) - head;
> -}
> -
>  static inline bool ixgbe_check_tx_hang(struct ixgbe_ring *tx_ring)
>  {
>         u32 tx_done = ixgbe_get_tx_completed(tx_ring);
>         u32 tx_done_old = tx_ring->tx_stats.tx_done_old;
> -       u32 tx_pending = ixgbe_get_tx_pending(tx_ring);
> +       u32 tx_pending = ixgbe_desc_used(tx_ring);
>
>         clear_check_for_tx_hang(tx_ring);
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c
> index 6b609553329f..7702efed356a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c
> @@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ bool ixgbe_clean_xdp_tx_irq(struct ixgbe_q_vector *q_vector,
>         u32 i = tx_ring->next_to_clean, xsk_frames = 0;
>         unsigned int budget = q_vector->tx.work_limit;
>         struct xdp_umem *umem = tx_ring->xsk_umem;
> +       u32 used_descs = ixgbe_desc_used(tx_ring);
>         union ixgbe_adv_tx_desc *tx_desc;
>         struct ixgbe_tx_buffer *tx_bi;
>         bool xmit_done;
> @@ -645,7 +646,7 @@ bool ixgbe_clean_xdp_tx_irq(struct ixgbe_q_vector *q_vector,
>         tx_desc = IXGBE_TX_DESC(tx_ring, i);
>         i -= tx_ring->count;
>
> -       do {
> +       while (likely(budget && used_descs)) {
>                 if (!(tx_desc->wb.status & cpu_to_le32(IXGBE_TXD_STAT_DD)))
>                         break;
>
> @@ -673,7 +674,8 @@ bool ixgbe_clean_xdp_tx_irq(struct ixgbe_q_vector *q_vector,
>
>                 /* update budget accounting */
>                 budget--;
> -       } while (likely(budget));
> +               used_descs--;
> +       }
>
>         i += tx_ring->count;
>         tx_ring->next_to_clean = i;
> --
> 2.17.1
>