Patch "nvme-rdma: remove race conditions from IB signalling" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    nvme-rdma: remove race conditions from IB signalling

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     nvme-rdma-remove-race-conditions-from-ib-signalling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5e599d73c1c1816af07f94ddba879499aa39b43c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marta Rybczynska <mrybczyn@kalray.eu>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:27:21 +0200
Subject: nvme-rdma: remove race conditions from IB signalling

From: Marta Rybczynska <mrybczyn@kalray.eu>

commit 5e599d73c1c1816af07f94ddba879499aa39b43c upstream.

This patch improves the way the RDMA IB signalling is done by using atomic
operations for the signalling variable. This avoids race conditions on
sig_count.

The signalling interval changes slightly and is now the largest power of
two not larger than queue depth / 2.

ilog() usage idea by Bart Van Assche.

Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <marta.rybczynska@kalray.eu>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ enum nvme_rdma_queue_flags {
 
 struct nvme_rdma_queue {
 	struct nvme_rdma_qe	*rsp_ring;
-	u8			sig_count;
+	atomic_t		sig_count;
 	int			queue_size;
 	size_t			cmnd_capsule_len;
 	struct nvme_rdma_ctrl	*ctrl;
@@ -555,6 +555,7 @@ static int nvme_rdma_init_queue(struct n
 		queue->cmnd_capsule_len = sizeof(struct nvme_command);
 
 	queue->queue_size = queue_size;
+	atomic_set(&queue->sig_count, 0);
 
 	queue->cm_id = rdma_create_id(&init_net, nvme_rdma_cm_handler, queue,
 			RDMA_PS_TCP, IB_QPT_RC);
@@ -1011,17 +1012,16 @@ static void nvme_rdma_send_done(struct i
 		nvme_rdma_wr_error(cq, wc, "SEND");
 }
 
-static inline int nvme_rdma_queue_sig_limit(struct nvme_rdma_queue *queue)
+/*
+ * We want to signal completion at least every queue depth/2.  This returns the
+ * largest power of two that is not above half of (queue size + 1) to optimize
+ * (avoid divisions).
+ */
+static inline bool nvme_rdma_queue_sig_limit(struct nvme_rdma_queue *queue)
 {
-	int sig_limit;
+	int limit = 1 << ilog2((queue->queue_size + 1) / 2);
 
-	/*
-	 * We signal completion every queue depth/2 and also handle the
-	 * degenerated case of a  device with queue_depth=1, where we
-	 * would need to signal every message.
-	 */
-	sig_limit = max(queue->queue_size / 2, 1);
-	return (++queue->sig_count % sig_limit) == 0;
+	return (atomic_inc_return(&queue->sig_count) & (limit - 1)) == 0;
 }
 
 static int nvme_rdma_post_send(struct nvme_rdma_queue *queue,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mrybczyn@kalray.eu are

queue-4.9/nvme-rdma-remove-race-conditions-from-ib-signalling.patch