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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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	Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@marvell.com>,
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	"linyunsheng@huawei.com" <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net v2] octeontx2-pf: Fix page pool cache index corruption.
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 12:15:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230907101527.45YwOJcG@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR1801MB19187A03AF45B0E23B534B6BD3EEA@MWHPR1801MB1918.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>

On 2023-09-07 08:15:58 [+0000], Ratheesh Kannoth wrote:
> > From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> > Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net v2] octeontx2-pf: Fix page pool cache index
> > corruption.
> > >  	cq->refill_task_sched = false;
> > > +
> > > +	local_bh_disable();
> > > +	napi_schedule(wrk->napi);
> > > +	local_bh_enable();
> > 
> > This is a nitpick since I haven't look how it works exactly: Is it possible that the
> > wrk->napi pointer gets overwritten by
> > otx2_napi_handler() since you cleared cq->refill_task_sched() earlier?
> I don’t see any issue here.  As NAPI and workqueue execution is serialized (as interrupt is disabled when 
> Workqueue is scheduled).  I don’t think we can move "refill_task_sched = false" after local_bh_enable(). 
> But we can move refill_task_sched = false as below . but I don’t see a need. 

Right, there might be no issue I was just asking. I don't know how the
cq <-> NAPI mapping is working. If you say that there is no race/issue,
okay ;)

>  +
>  +	local_bh_disable();
>  +	napi_schedule(wrk->napi);
>   +	cq->refill_task_sched = false;
>  +	local_bh_enable();

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-07 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-07  1:47 [PATCH net v2] octeontx2-pf: Fix page pool cache index corruption Ratheesh Kannoth
2023-09-07  7:09 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2023-09-07  8:15   ` [EXT] " Ratheesh Kannoth
2023-09-07 10:15     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2023-09-07 15:08 ` Simon Horman
2023-09-08  2:51   ` [EXT] " Ratheesh Kannoth

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