Re: Regression: Failed boots bisected to 4cd13c21b207 "softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job"

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:49:06AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The smc91x driver does seem to have some trickiness around softirqs.
>>> I'm not familiar with net drivers, but I'll see if I can figure
>>> anything out there.
>>
>>
>> Oh this code looks ugly :(
>>
>> Do you have CONFIG_SMP=y or not ?
>
>
> Yeah CONFIG_SMP=y (and CONFIG_PREEMPT=y too, fwiw).
>
> I did try forcing it into the no-op locking (as though config SMP
> wasn't set), it didn't help (and it doesn't look like that would be
> safe with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y either).
>
> The bit in smc_hardware_send_pkt looks like skipping softirq
> invocation when there's already one running wouldn't give the same
> behaviour as before:
>
>         if (!smc_special_trylock(&lp->lock, flags)) {
>                 netif_stop_queue(dev);
>                 tasklet_schedule(&lp->tx_task);
>                 return;
>         }
>
> ... that said, I've no idea if that matters.
>
> Of course I also don't know if the network driver is even to blame :-(
>

I believe the problem is in SMC_WAIT_MMU_BUSY()

Could you try this patch ? (inlined and attached)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c
index 65077c77082a2f042117a0889c2b15099c58eae5..4ef653ae8564c6d2a5120cdaef12db1e1b218b39
100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c
@@ -229,19 +229,22 @@ static inline void PRINT_PKT(u_char *buf, int length) { }
  * if at all, but let's avoid deadlocking the system if the hardware
  * decides to go south.
  */
-#define SMC_WAIT_MMU_BUSY(lp) do {                                     \
-       if (unlikely(SMC_GET_MMU_CMD(lp) & MC_BUSY)) {          \
-               unsigned long timeout = jiffies + 2;                    \
-               while (SMC_GET_MMU_CMD(lp) & MC_BUSY) {         \
-                       if (time_after(jiffies, timeout)) {             \
-                               netdev_dbg(dev, "timeout %s line %d\n", \
-                                          __FILE__, __LINE__);         \
-                               break;                                  \
-                       }                                               \
-                       cpu_relax();                                    \
-               }                                                       \
-       }                                                               \
-} while (0)
+static void SMC_WAIT_MMU_BUSY(struct smc_local *lp)
+{
+       unsigned long timeout = jiffies + 2;
+       unsigned int count = 10000;
+
+       while (SMC_GET_MMU_CMD(lp) & MC_BUSY) {
+               count--;
+               if (!count || time_after(jiffies, timeout)) {
+                       netdev_dbg(lp->dev, "timeout %s line %d\n",
+                                  __FILE__, __LINE__);
+                       break;
+               }
+       /* TODO : investigate using cond_resched() from allowed contexts */
+       cpu_relax();
+       }
+}


 /*
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c
index 65077c77082a2f042117a0889c2b15099c58eae5..4ef653ae8564c6d2a5120cdaef12db1e1b218b39 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.c
@@ -229,19 +229,22 @@ static inline void PRINT_PKT(u_char *buf, int length) { }
  * if at all, but let's avoid deadlocking the system if the hardware
  * decides to go south.
  */
-#define SMC_WAIT_MMU_BUSY(lp) do {					\
-	if (unlikely(SMC_GET_MMU_CMD(lp) & MC_BUSY)) {		\
-		unsigned long timeout = jiffies + 2;			\
-		while (SMC_GET_MMU_CMD(lp) & MC_BUSY) {		\
-			if (time_after(jiffies, timeout)) {		\
-				netdev_dbg(dev, "timeout %s line %d\n",	\
-					   __FILE__, __LINE__);		\
-				break;					\
-			}						\
-			cpu_relax();					\
-		}							\
-	}								\
-} while (0)
+static void SMC_WAIT_MMU_BUSY(struct smc_local *lp)
+{
+	unsigned long timeout = jiffies + 2;
+	unsigned int count = 10000;
+
+	while (SMC_GET_MMU_CMD(lp) & MC_BUSY) {
+		count--;
+		if (!count || time_after(jiffies, timeout)) {
+			netdev_dbg(lp->dev, "timeout %s line %d\n",
+				   __FILE__, __LINE__);
+			break;
+		}
+	/* TODO : investigate using cond_resched() from allowed contexts */
+	cpu_relax();
+	}
+}
 
 
 /*