Re: [PATCH v2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-tmfifo: Fix a memory barrier issue

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 5/8/21 2:30 AM, Liming Sun wrote:
> The virtio framework uses wmb() when updating avail->idx. It
> guarantees the write order, but not necessarily loading order
> for the code accessing the memory. This commit adds a load barrier
> after reading the avail->idx to make sure all the data in the
> descriptor is visible. It also adds a barrier when returning the
> packet to virtio framework to make sure read/writes are visible to
> the virtio code.
> 
> Fixes: 1357dfd7261f ("platform/mellanox: Add TmFifo driver for Mellanox BlueField Soc")
> Signed-off-by: Liming Sun <limings@nvidia.com>

I'm not familiar enough with this / the virtio code to be able to
judge if this makes sense (I assume it does).

Can I get an Ack or Reviewed-by from one of the other Mellanox
folks please?

Regards,

Hans



> ---
> v1->v2:
>   Updates for Vadim's comments:
>   - Add the 'Fixes' field in the commit message.
> v1: Initial version
> ---
>  drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c
> index bbc4e71..38800e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c
> @@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ static irqreturn_t mlxbf_tmfifo_irq_handler(int irq, void *arg)
>  	if (vring->next_avail == virtio16_to_cpu(vdev, vr->avail->idx))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> +	/* Make sure 'avail->idx' is visible already. */
> +	virtio_rmb(false);
> +
>  	idx = vring->next_avail % vr->num;
>  	head = virtio16_to_cpu(vdev, vr->avail->ring[idx]);
>  	if (WARN_ON(head >= vr->num))
> @@ -322,7 +325,7 @@ static void mlxbf_tmfifo_release_desc(struct mlxbf_tmfifo_vring *vring,
>  	 * done or not. Add a memory barrier here to make sure the update above
>  	 * completes before updating the idx.
>  	 */
> -	mb();
> +	virtio_mb(false);
>  	vr->used->idx = cpu_to_virtio16(vdev, vr_idx + 1);
>  }
>  
> @@ -733,6 +736,12 @@ static bool mlxbf_tmfifo_rxtx_one_desc(struct mlxbf_tmfifo_vring *vring,
>  		desc = NULL;
>  		fifo->vring[is_rx] = NULL;
>  
> +		/*
> +		 * Make sure the load/store are in order before
> +		 * returning back to virtio.
> +		 */
> +		virtio_mb(false);
> +
>  		/* Notify upper layer that packet is done. */
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&fifo->spin_lock[is_rx], flags);
>  		vring_interrupt(0, vring->vq);
>