Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] Flush MSI-X table writes (rev 3)

[Eric W. Biederman]

Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This patch fixes a kernel bug which is triggered when using the
> irqbalance daemon with MSI-X hardware.
>
> Because both MSI-X interrupt messages and MSI-X table writes are posted,
> it's possible for them to cross while in-flight.  This results in
> interrupts being received long after the kernel thinks they're disabled,
> and in interrupts being sent to stale vectors after rebalancing.
>
> This patch performs a read flush after writes to the MSI-X table for
> mask and unmask operations.  Since the SMP affinity is set while
> the interrupt is masked, and since it's unmasked immediately after,
> no additional flushes are required in the various affinity setting
> routines.
>
> This patch has been validated with (unreleased) network hardware which
> uses MSI-X.
>
> Revised with input from Eric Biederman.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff -urpN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.21-rc5-clean/drivers/pci/msi.c
> linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/pci/msi.c
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5-clean/drivers/pci/msi.c 2007-03-28 10:05:24.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/pci/msi.c	2007-03-28 09:21:34.000000000 -0700
> @@ -68,6 +68,29 @@ static void msix_set_enable(struct pci_d
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static void msix_flush_writes(unsigned int irq)
> +{
> +	struct msi_desc *entry;
> +
> +	entry = get_irq_msi(irq);
> +	BUG_ON(!entry || !entry->dev);
> +	switch (entry->msi_attrib.type) {
> +	case PCI_CAP_ID_MSI:
> +		/* nothing to do */
> +		break;
> +	case PCI_CAP_ID_MSIX:
> +	{
> +		int offset = entry->msi_attrib.entry_nr * PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_SIZE +
> +			PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL_OFFSET;
> +		readl(entry->mask_base + offset);
> +		break;
> +	}
> +	default:
> +		BUG();
> +		break;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  static void msi_set_mask_bit(unsigned int irq, int flag)
>  {
>  	struct msi_desc *entry;
> @@ -186,11 +209,13 @@ void write_msi_msg(unsigned int irq, str
>  void mask_msi_irq(unsigned int irq)
>  {
>  	msi_set_mask_bit(irq, 1);
> +	msix_flush_writes(irq);
>  }
>  
>  void unmask_msi_irq(unsigned int irq)
>  {
>  	msi_set_mask_bit(irq, 0);
> +	msix_flush_writes(irq);
>  }
>  
>  static int msi_free_irq(struct pci_dev* dev, int irq);
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