Re: [PATCH net-next] devlink: Require devlink lock during device reload

Leon Romanovsky
2021-11-09T14:12:45Z

On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 03:31:26PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 21:58:36 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > > nfp will benefit from the simplified locking as well, and so will bnxt,
> > > > > although I'm not sure the maintainers will opt for using devlink framework
> > > > > due to the downstream requirements.
> > > >
> > > > Exactly why devlink should be fixed first.
> > >
> > > If by "fixed first" you mean it needs 5 locks to be added and to remove
> > > any guarantees on sub-object lifetime then no thanks.
> >
> > How do you plan to fix pernet_ops_rwsem lock? By exposing devlink state
> > to the drivers? By providing unlocked version of unregister_netdevice_notifier?
> >
> > This simple scenario has deadlocks:
> > sudo ip netns add n1
> > sudo devlink dev reload pci/0000:00:09.0 netns n1
> > sudo ip netns del n1
>
> Okay - I'm not sure why you're asking me this. This is not related to
> devlink locking as far as I can tell. Neither are you fixing this
> problem in your own RFC.

I asked you because you clearly showed to me that things that makes
sense for me, doesn't make sense for you and vice versa.

I don't want to do work that will be thrown away.

>
> You'd need to tell me more about what the notifier is used for (I see
> RoCE in the call trace). I don't understand why you need to re-register
> a global (i.e. not per netns) notifier when devlink is switching name
> spaces.

RDMA subsystem supports two net namespace aware scenarios.

We need global netdev_notifier for shared mode. This is legacy mode where
we listen to all namespaces. We must support this mode otherwise we break
whole RDMA world.

See commit below:
de641d74fb00 ("Revert "RDMA/mlx5: Fix devlink deadlock on net namespace deletion"")

Thanks