RE: [Xen-devel] Xen-unstable Linux 3.14-rc3 and 3.13 Network troubles "bisected"

Paul Durrant
2014-03-26T18:42:31Z

> From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Paul Durrant
> Sent: 26 March 2014 18:16
> To: Sander Eikelenboom
> Cc: Wei Liu; annie li; Zoltan Kiss; xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Ian Campbell; linux-
> kernel; netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Xen-unstable Linux 3.14-rc3 and 3.13 Network
> troubles "bisected"
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sander Eikelenboom [mailto:linux@eikelenboom.it]
> > Sent: 26 March 2014 18:08
> > To: Paul Durrant
> > Cc: Wei Liu; annie li; Zoltan Kiss; xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Ian Campbell;
> linux-
> > kernel; netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen-unstable Linux 3.14-rc3 and 3.13 Network
> > troubles "bisected"
> >
> >
> > Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 6:46:06 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > > Re-send shortened version...
> >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Sander Eikelenboom [mailto:linux@eikelenboom.it]
> > >> Sent: 26 March 2014 16:54
> > >> To: Paul Durrant
> > >> Cc: Wei Liu; annie li; Zoltan Kiss; xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Ian Campbell;
> > linux-
> > >> kernel; netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > >> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen-unstable Linux 3.14-rc3 and 3.13 Network
> > >> troubles "bisected"
> > >>
> > > [snip]
> > >> >>
> > >> >> - When processing an SKB we end up in "xenvif_gop_frag_copy"
> while
> > >> prod
> > >> >> == cons ... but we still have bytes and size left ..
> > >> >> - start_new_rx_buffer() has returned true ..
> > >> >> - so we end up in get_next_rx_buffer
> > >> >> - this does a RING_GET_REQUEST and ups cons ..
> > >> >> - and we end up with a bad grant reference.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Sometimes we are saved by the bell .. since additional slots have
> > become
> > >> >> free (you see cons become > prod in "get_next_rx_buffer" but
> shortly
> > >> after
> > >> >> that prod is increased ..
> > >> >> just in time to not cause a overrun).
> > >> >>
> > >>
> > >> > Ah, but hang on... There's a BUG_ON meta_slots_used >
> > >> max_slots_needed, so if we are overflowing the worst-case calculation
> > then
> > >> why is that BUG_ON not firing?
> > >>
> > >> You mean:
> > >> sco = (struct skb_cb_overlay *)skb->cb;
> > >> sco->meta_slots_used = xenvif_gop_skb(skb, &npo);
> > >> BUG_ON(sco->meta_slots_used > max_slots_needed);
> > >>
> > >> in "get_next_rx_buffer" ?
> > >>
> >
> > > That code excerpt is from net_rx_action(),isn't it?
> >
> > Yes
> >
> > >> I don't know .. at least now it doesn't crash dom0 and therefore not my
> > >> complete machine and since tcp is recovering from a failed packet :-)
> > >>
> >
> > > Well, if the code calculating max_slots_needed were underestimating
> then
> > the BUG_ON() should fire. If it is not firing in your case then this suggests
> > your problem lies elsewhere, or that meta_slots_used is not equal to the
> > number of ring slots consumed.
> >
> > It's seem to be the last ..
> >
> > [ 1157.188908] vif vif-7-0 vif7.0: ?!? xenvif_gop_skb Me here 5 npo-
> > >meta_prod:40 old_meta_prod:36 vif->rx.sring->req_prod:2105867 vif-
> > >rx.req_cons:2105868 meta->gso_type:1 meta->gso_size:1448 nr_frags:1
> > req->gref:657 req->id:7 estimated_slots_needed:4 j(data):1
> > reserved_slots_left:-1 used in funcstart: 0 + 1 .. used_dataloop:1 ..
> > used_fragloop:3
> > [ 1157.244975] vif vif-7-0 vif7.0: ?!? xenvif_rx_action me here 2 .. vif-
> > >rx.sring->req_prod:2105867 vif->rx.req_cons:2105868 sco-
> > >meta_slots_used:4 max_upped_gso:1 skb_is_gso(skb):1
> > max_slots_needed:4 j:6 is_gso:1 nr_frags:1 firstpart:1 secondpart:2
> > reserved_slots_left:-1
> >
> > net_rx_action() calculated we would need 4 slots .. and sco-
> > >meta_slots_used == 4 when we return so it doesn't trigger you BUG_ON
> ..
> >
> > The 4 slots we calculated are:
> > 1 slot for the data part: DIV_ROUND_UP(offset_in_page(skb->data) +
> > skb_headlen(skb), PAGE_SIZE)
> > 2 slots for the single frag in this SKB from: DIV_ROUND_UP(size,
> PAGE_SIZE)
> > 1 slot since GSO
> >
> > In the debug code i annotated all cons++, and the code uses 1 slot to
> process
> > the data from the SKB as expected but uses 3 slots in the frag chopping
> loop.

So, we must have done something like fill an existing slot, fill the next, but then had some left over requiring a third. Could you try the following additional patch?

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback
index 58e5eb4..dfd8cea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenvif *vif)
for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
unsigned int size;
size = skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]);
- max_slots_needed += DIV_ROUND_UP(size, PAGE_SIZE);
+ max_slots_needed += (size / PAGE_SIZE) + 2;
}
if (skb_is_gso(skb) &&
(skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_TCPV4 ||

Paul

> > And when it reaches the state were cons > prod it is always in
> > "get_next_rx_buffer".
> >
> > >> But probably because "npo->copy_prod++" seems to be used for the
> > frags ..
> > >> and it isn't added to npo->meta_prod ?
> > >>
> >
> > > meta_slots_used is calculated as the value of meta_prod at return (from
> > xenvif_gop_skb()) minus the value on entry ,
> > > and if you look back up the code then you can see that meta_prod is
> > incremented every time RING_GET_REQUEST() is evaluated.
> > > So, we must be consuming a slot without evaluating
> RING_GET_REQUEST()
> > and I think that's exactly what's happening...
> > > Right at the bottom of xenvif_gop_frag_copy() req_cons is simply
> > incremented in the case of a GSO. So the BUG_ON() is indeed off by one.
> >
> > That is probably only done on first iteration / frag ?
>
> Yes, the extra slot is accounted for right after the head frag is processed.
>
> Paul
>
> > Because i don't see my warn there trigger .. but it could be that's because
> at
> > that moment we still have cons <= prod.
> >
> >
> > > Paul
> >
> >
>
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