Re: [PATCH rdma-next v3 3/4] RDMA/core: Introduce new GID table query API

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:03:56PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 07:50:14PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com>
> >
> > Introduce rdma_query_gid_table which enables querying all the GID tables
> > of a given device and copying the attributes of all valid GID entries to
> > a provided buffer.
> >
> > This API provides a faster way to query a GID table using single call and
> > will be used in libibverbs to improve current approach that requires
> > multiple calls to open, close and read multiple sysfs files for a single
> > GID table entry.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> >  drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c         | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  include/rdma/ib_cache.h                 |  3 +
> >  include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_ioctl_verbs.h |  8 +++
> >  3 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
> > index cf49ac0b0aa6..211b88d17bc7 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
> > @@ -1247,6 +1247,74 @@ rdma_get_gid_attr(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num, int index)
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(rdma_get_gid_attr);
> >
> > +/**
> > + * rdma_query_gid_table - Reads GID table entries of all the ports of a device up to max_entries.
> > + * @device: The device to query.
> > + * @entries: Entries where GID entries are returned.
> > + * @max_entries: Maximum number of entries that can be returned.
> > + * Entries array must be allocated to hold max_entries number of entries.
> > + * @num_entries: Updated to the number of entries that were successfully read.
> > + *
> > + * Returns number of entries on success or appropriate error code.
> > + */
> > +ssize_t rdma_query_gid_table(struct ib_device *device,
> > +			     struct ib_uverbs_gid_entry *entries,
> > +			     size_t max_entries)
> > +{
> > +	const struct ib_gid_attr *gid_attr;
> > +	ssize_t num_entries = 0, ret;
> > +	struct ib_gid_table *table;
> > +	unsigned int port_num, i;
> > +	struct net_device *ndev;
> > +	unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +	rdma_for_each_port(device, port_num) {
> > +		if (!rdma_ib_or_roce(device, port_num))
> > +			continue;
> > +
> > +		table = rdma_gid_table(device, port_num);
> > +		read_lock_irqsave(&table->rwlock, flags);
> > +		for (i = 0; i < table->sz; i++) {
> > +			if (!is_gid_entry_valid(table->data_vec[i]))
> > +				continue;
> > +			if (num_entries >= max_entries) {
> > +				ret = -EINVAL;
> > +				goto err;
> > +			}
> > +
> > +			gid_attr = &table->data_vec[i]->attr;
> > +
> > +			memcpy(&entries->gid, &gid_attr->gid,
> > +			       sizeof(gid_attr->gid));
> > +			entries->gid_index = gid_attr->index;
> > +			entries->port_num = gid_attr->port_num;
> > +			entries->gid_type = gid_attr->gid_type;
>
> > +			rcu_read_lock();
> > +			ndev = rdma_read_gid_attr_ndev_rcu(gid_attr);
>
> This can't call rdma_read_gid_attr_ndev_rcu(), that also obtains the
> rwlock. rwlock can't be nested.

Sorry for that.

>
> Why didn't lockdep explode on this?

I don't know.

>
> This whole thing can just be:
>
>     ndev = rcu_dereference_protected(gid_attr->ndev, lockdep_is_held(&table->rwlock))
>     if (ndev)
>          entries->netdev_ifindex = ndev->ifindex;
>
> Jason