From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B08C43218 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2019 04:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD39206A3 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2019 04:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=resnulli-us.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.i=@resnulli-us.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.b="R4PQQSOH" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726545AbfDZEiO (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:38:14 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f67.google.com ([209.85.221.67]:36991 "EHLO mail-wr1-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725854AbfDZEiN (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:38:13 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-f67.google.com with SMTP id r6so2472217wrm.4 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:38:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=resnulli-us.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=XSLRr44YLkdq2LsCyuTPnlTs2ingRxoTOaZ2gfvZiG0=; b=R4PQQSOHwETZ7GCEsmh+7LRaoO5KkGLckgv61Np9Za6guwvbQGbLWrOzN75zCEBglT 2l/XV7vApy5sm/Imh4WAvoqkFV6Fun4M7xvipTI7oUNSLgUrbrvz/dSDZIB1oQwnzvMp LRlX3GgnAgN+KWAfIOccDMNKJWsdkyyWRcZMkipQZqjsQDpnGZPBhcMa/fulJdwMDTL/ wM7IWgyxa/GiE+xPQw2b5tK3d7jBDLHb0xMVE1VuDsbhWIiF9uACxGIMZnp605gwQzH2 Z0Q9nW4cwTHYIWZmTfbQBOSbMO0I4hjFcRrRupAIvPyik4kAE8LIWVnCQtX8Q9wn0LSr xEzQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=XSLRr44YLkdq2LsCyuTPnlTs2ingRxoTOaZ2gfvZiG0=; b=CBZhAYC0s2+gGG6c2gJngYCFMYj1MH3kd1uQfnQ498NPnBWZUXRaKxnOYE8YIwPNX7 NYV50UEk0oTKwmdLRpacB0WDO/H8CyS1IevBqtSG0hCLelzOWcOuMJ5A8EXzFb2R9FJC hLseiiJmF9q1uGTp2O7Q1N0go2W0Ow240MUBcGhHE/RnElX7v1NncoMnTg0qCsX4QeG8 mpVV/9M55gL3b+/eV9xZH6flL/JT47vSSg1ZEhX0qV0CqNWP0DTLUuiEbTAkOjA1gM+4 eWcB8xNlLvte3WD9cqBL+5wWb8X6L4pSZC1DNVMhO6K3t7Ils38OcCuWOOmGoilAN0rp uK3g== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAU8d3zkYiQYQzfX8dAVWMRvZq3DLWG9GnZqthdoLT5Rgha3wKvq FoopqcTVeE8/Xo/4DPRFN6qNGQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwRwjAmAeCuimnHUd8Z3Dulka+KZMwxOwu52cFVE3MG0x/r9PNvpa7eWXsFcLgO47go5l1Bmg== X-Received: by 2002:adf:eb0c:: with SMTP id s12mr26911797wrn.229.1556253491394; Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jirka.pirko.cz. [84.16.102.26]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o1sm33295827wmh.47.2019.04.25.21.38.10 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 06:38:09 +0200 From: Jiri Pirko To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Moshe Shemesh , "David S. Miller" , Jiri Pirko , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] devlink: Execute devlink health recover as a work Message-ID: <20190426043809.GC2271@nanopsycho.orion> References: <1556189823-5368-1-git-send-email-moshe@mellanox.com> <20190425143847.417033ab@cakuba.netronome.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190425143847.417033ab@cakuba.netronome.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:38:47PM CEST, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com wrote: >On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:57:03 +0300, Moshe Shemesh wrote: >> Different reporters have different rules in the driver and are being >> created/destroyed during different stages of driver load/unload/running. >> So during execution of a reporter recover the flow can go through >> another reporter's destroy and create. Such flow leads to deadlock >> trying to lock a mutex already held if the flow was triggered by devlink >> recover command. >> To avoid such deadlock, we execute the recover flow from a workqueue. >> Once the recover work is done successfully the reporter health state and >> recover counter are being updated. > >Naive question, why not just run the doit unlocked? Why the async? Hmm, you have a point here. That would be probably doable.