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Vadim Lomovtsev says: ==================== nic: thunderx: fix communication races between VF & PF The ThunderX CN88XX NIC Virtual Function driver uses mailbox interface to communicate to physical function driver. Each of VF has it's own pair of mailbox registers to read from and write to. The mailbox registers has no protection from possible races, so it has to be implemented at software side. After long term testing by loop of 'ip link set <ifname> up/down' command it was found that there are two possible scenarios when race condition appears: 1. VF receives link change message from PF and VF send RX mode configuration message to PF in the same time from separate thread. 2. PF receives RX mode configuration from VF and in the same time, in separate thread PF detects link status change and sends appropriate message to particular VF. Both cases leads to mailbox data to be rewritten, NIC VF messaging control data to be updated incorrectly and communication sequence gets broken. This patch series is to address race condition with VF & PF communication. Changes: v1 -> v2 - 0000: correct typo in cover letter subject: 'betwen' -> 'between'; - move link state polling request task from pf to vf instead of cheking status of mailbox irq; v2 -> v3 - 0003: change return type of nicvf_send_cfg_done() function from int to void; - 0007: update subject and remove unused variable 'netdev' from nicvf_link_status_check_task() function; ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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