Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix for KSZ DSA switch shutdown

Saravana Kannan
2021-09-10T01:32:56Z

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 9:00 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +Saravana,
>
> On 9/9/2021 8:47 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 03:19:52PM +0200, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
> >>> Do you see similar things on your 5.10 kernel?
> >>
> >> For the master device is see
> >>
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 9 14:10 /sys/class/net/eth0/device/consumer:spi:spi3.0 -> ../../../virtual/devlink/platform:fd580000.ethernet--spi:spi3.0
> >
> > So this is the worst of the worst, we have a device link but it doesn't help.
> >
> > Where the device link helps is here:
> >
> > __device_release_driver
> > while (device_links_busy(dev))
> > device_links_unbind_consumers(dev);
> >
> > but during dev_shutdown, device_links_unbind_consumers does not get called
> > (actually I am not even sure whether it should).
> >
> > I've reproduced your issue by making this very simple change:
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
> > index 60d94e0a07d6..ec00f34cac47 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
> > @@ -1372,6 +1372,7 @@ static struct pci_driver enetc_pf_driver = {
> > .id_table = enetc_pf_id_table,
> > .probe = enetc_pf_probe,
> > .remove = enetc_pf_remove,
> > + .shutdown = enetc_pf_remove,
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_IOV
> > .sriov_configure = enetc_sriov_configure,
> > #endif
> >
> > on my DSA master driver. This is what the genet driver has "special".
> >
> > I was led into grave error by Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst,
> > which I've based my patch on, where it clearly says that device links
> > are supposed to help with shutdown ordering (how?!).
>
> I was also under the impression that device links were supposed to help
> with shutdown ordering, because it does matter a lot. One thing that I
> had to work before (and seems like it came back recently) is the
> shutdown ordering between gpio_keys.c and the GPIO controller. If you
> suspend the GPIO controller first, gpio_keys.c never gets a chance to
> keep the GPIO pin configured for a wake-up interrupt, therefore no
> wake-up event happens on key presses, whoops.

This is more of a Rafael question. Adding him. I haven't looked too
closely at device links and shutdown.

-Saravana

>
> >
> > So the question is, why did my DSA trees get torn down on shutdown?
> > Basically the short answer is that my SPI controller driver does
> > implement .shutdown, and calls the same code path as the .remove code,
> > which calls spi_unregister_controller which removes all SPI children..
> >
> > When I added this device link, one of the main objectives was to not
> > modify all DSA drivers. I was certain based on the documentation that
> > device links would help, now I'm not so sure anymore.
> >
> > So what happens is that the DSA master attempts to unregister its net
> > device on .shutdown, but DSA does not implement .shutdown, so it just
> > sits there holding a reference (supposedly via dev_hold, but where from?!)
> > to the master, which makes netdev_wait_allrefs to wait and wait.
>
> It's not coming from of_find_net_device_by_node() that's for sure and
> with OF we don't go through the code path calling
> dsa_dev_to_net_device() which does call dev_hold() and then shortly
> thereafter the caller calls dev_put() anyway.
>
> >
> > I need more time for the denial phase to pass, and to understand what
> > can actually be done. I will also be away from the keyboard for the next
> > few days, so it might take a while. Your patches obviously offer a
> > solution only for KSZ switches, we need something more general. If I
> > understand your solution, it works not by virtue of there being any
> > shutdown ordering guarantee at all, but simply due to the fact that
> > DSA's .shutdown hook gets called eventually, and the reference to the
> > master gets freed eventually, which unblocks the unregister_netdevice
> > call from the master. I don't yet understand why DSA holds a long-term
> > reference to the master, that's one thing I need to figure out.
> >
>
> Agreed.
> --
> Florian