Re: [PATCH v2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-tmfifo: Fix a memory barrier issue

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Wed May 19 2021 - 09:19:51 EST


Hi,

On 5/8/21 2:30 AM, Liming Sun wrote:
> The virtio framework uses wmb() when updating avail->idx. It
> guarantees the write order, but not necessarily loading order
> for the code accessing the memory. This commit adds a load barrier
> after reading the avail->idx to make sure all the data in the
> descriptor is visible. It also adds a barrier when returning the
> packet to virtio framework to make sure read/writes are visible to
> the virtio code.
>
> Fixes: 1357dfd7261f ("platform/mellanox: Add TmFifo driver for Mellanox BlueField Soc")
> Signed-off-by: Liming Sun <limings@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you for your patch, I've applied this patch to my review-hans
branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=review-hans

I will also include this in the next pdx86-fixes pull-req for 5.13.

Note it will show up in my review-hans branch once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

Once I've run some tests on this branch the patches there will be
added to the platform-drivers-x86/for-next branch and eventually
will be included in the pdx86 pull-request to Linus for the next
merge-window.

Regards,

Hans


> ---
> v1->v2:
> Updates for Vadim's comments:
> - Add the 'Fixes' field in the commit message.
> v1: Initial version
> ---
> drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c
> index bbc4e71..38800e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c
> @@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ static irqreturn_t mlxbf_tmfifo_irq_handler(int irq, void *arg)
> if (vring->next_avail == virtio16_to_cpu(vdev, vr->avail->idx))
> return NULL;
>
> + /* Make sure 'avail->idx' is visible already. */
> + virtio_rmb(false);
> +
> idx = vring->next_avail % vr->num;
> head = virtio16_to_cpu(vdev, vr->avail->ring[idx]);
> if (WARN_ON(head >= vr->num))
> @@ -322,7 +325,7 @@ static void mlxbf_tmfifo_release_desc(struct mlxbf_tmfifo_vring *vring,
> * done or not. Add a memory barrier here to make sure the update above
> * completes before updating the idx.
> */
> - mb();
> + virtio_mb(false);
> vr->used->idx = cpu_to_virtio16(vdev, vr_idx + 1);
> }
>
> @@ -733,6 +736,12 @@ static bool mlxbf_tmfifo_rxtx_one_desc(struct mlxbf_tmfifo_vring *vring,
> desc = NULL;
> fifo->vring[is_rx] = NULL;
>
> + /*
> + * Make sure the load/store are in order before
> + * returning back to virtio.
> + */
> + virtio_mb(false);
> +
> /* Notify upper layer that packet is done. */
> spin_lock_irqsave(&fifo->spin_lock[is_rx], flags);
> vring_interrupt(0, vring->vq);
>