litmus-rt.git/drivers/net/xen-netback, branch test

xen-netback: fix a BUG() during initialization

2015-07-10T16:49:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 12b322ac85208de564ecf23aa754d796a91de21f ]

Commit edafc132baac ("xen-netback: making the bandwidth limiter runtime settable")
introduced the capability to change the bandwidth rate limit at runtime.
But it also introduced a possible crashing bug.

If netback receives two XenbusStateConnected without getting the
hotplug-status watch firing in between, then it will try to register the
watches for the rate limiter again.  But this triggers a BUG() in the watch
registration code.

The fix modifies connect() to remove the possibly existing packet-rate
watches before trying to install those watches.  This behaviour is in line
with how connect() deals with the hotplug-status watch.

Signed-off-by: Imre Palik 
Cc: Matt Wilson 
Acked-by: Wei Liu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen: netback: read hotplug script once at start of day.

2015-06-01T19:03:04+00:00

When we come to tear things down in netback_remove() and generate the
uevent it is possible that the xenstore directory has already been
removed (details below).

In such cases netback_uevent() won't be able to read the hotplug
script and will write a xenstore error node.

A recent change to the hypervisor exposed this race such that we now
sometimes lose it (where apparently we didn't ever before).

Instead read the hotplug script configuration during setup and use it
for the lifetime of the backend device.

The apparently more obvious fix of moving the transition to
state=Closed in netback_remove() to after the uevent does not work
because it is possible that we are already in state=Closed (in
reaction to the guest having disconnected as it shutdown). Being
already in Closed means the toolstack is at liberty to start tearing
down the xenstore directories. In principal it might be possible to
arrange to unregister the device sooner (e.g on transition to Closing)
such that xenstore would still be there but this state machine is
fragile and prone to anger...

A modern Xen system only relies on the hotplug uevent for driver
domains, when the backend is in the same domain as the toolstack it
will run the necessary setup/teardown directly in the correct sequence
wrt xenstore changes.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell 
Acked-by: Wei Liu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen: netback: fix printf format string warning

2015-06-01T19:03:04+00:00

drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c: In function ‘xenvif_tx_build_gops’:
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:1253:8: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 5 has type ‘int’ [-Wformat=]
        (txreq.offset&~PAGE_MASK) + txreq.size);
        ^

PAGE_MASK's type can vary by arch, so a cast is needed.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell 
----
v2: Cast to unsigned long, since PAGE_MASK can vary by arch.
Acked-by: Wei Liu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen/netback: Properly initialize credit_bytes

2015-05-27T16:56:55+00:00

Commit e9ce7cb6b107 ("xen-netback: Factor queue-specific data into queue
struct") introduced a regression when moving queue-specific data into
the queue struct by failing to set the credit_bytes field. This
prevented bandwidth limiting from working. Initialize the field as it
was done before multiqueue support was added.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall 
Acked-by: Wei Liu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-4.1-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip

2015-04-16T19:01:03+00:00

Pull xen features and fixes from David Vrabel:

 - use a single source list of hypercalls, generating other tables etc.
   at build time.

 - add a "Xen PV" APIC driver to support >255 VCPUs in PV guests.

 - significant performance improve to guest save/restore/migration.

 - scsiback/front save/restore support.

 - infrastructure for multi-page xenbus rings.

 - misc fixes.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-4.1-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/pci: Try harder to get PXM information for Xen
  xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring
  xen-pciback: also support disabling of bus-mastering and memory-write-invalidate
  xen: support suspend/resume in pvscsi frontend
  xen: scsiback: add LUN of restored domain
  xen-scsiback: define a pr_fmt macro with xen-pvscsi
  xen/mce: fix up xen_late_init_mcelog() error handling
  xen/privcmd: improve performance of MMAPBATCH_V2
  xen: unify foreign GFN map/unmap for auto-xlated physmap guests
  x86/xen/apic: WARN with details.
  x86/xen: Provide a "Xen PV" APIC driver to support >255 VCPUs
  xen/pciback: Don't print scary messages when unsupported by hypervisor.
  xen: use generated hypercall symbols in arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
  xen: use generated hypervisor symbols in arch/x86/xen/trace.c
  xen: synchronize include/xen/interface/xen.h with xen
  xen: build infrastructure for generating hypercall depending symbols
  xen: balloon: Use static attribute groups for sysfs entries
  xen: pcpu: Use static attribute groups for sysfs entry

xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring

2015-04-15T09:56:47+00:00

Originally Xen PV drivers only use single-page ring to pass along
information. This might limit the throughput between frontend and
backend.

The patch extends Xenbus driver to support multi-page ring, which in
general should improve throughput if ring is the bottleneck. Changes to
various frontend / backend to adapt to the new interface are also
included.

Affected Xen drivers:
* blkfront/back
* netfront/back
* pcifront/back
* scsifront/back
* vtpmfront

The interface is documented, as before, in xenbus_client.c.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu 
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant 
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu 
Cc: Konrad Wilk 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2015-03-20T22:51:09+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
	net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
	net/ipv4/inet_diag.c

The be_main.c conflict resolution was really tricky.  The conflict
hunks generated by GIT were very unhelpful, to say the least.  It
split functions in half and moved them around, when the real actual
conflict only existed solely inside of one function, that being
be_map_pci_bars().

So instead, to resolve this, I checked out be_main.c from the top
of net-next, then I applied the be_main.c changes from 'net' since
the last time I merged.  And this worked beautifully.

The inet_diag.c and sysctl_net_core.c conflicts were simple
overlapping changes, and were easily to resolve.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netback: making the bandwidth limiter runtime settable

2015-03-20T16:55:15+00:00

With the current netback, the bandwidth limiter's parameters are only
settable during vif setup time.  This patch register a watch on them, and
thus makes them runtime changeable.

When the watch fires, the timer is reset.  The timer's mutex is used for
fencing the change.

Cc: Anthony Liguori 
Signed-off-by: Imre Palik 
Acked-by: Wei Liu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xen-netback: notify immediately after pushing Tx response.

2015-03-12T03:30:44+00:00

This fixes a performance regression introduced by
7fbb9d8415d4a51cf542e87cf3a717a9f7e6aedc (xen-netback: release pending
index before pushing Tx responses)

Moving the notify outside of the spin locks means it can be delayed a
long time (if the dealloc thread is descheduled or there is an
interrupt or softirq).

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel 
Reviewed-by: Zoltan Kiss 
Acked-by: Wei Liu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2015-03-10T03:38:02+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c

Overlapping changes in macb driver, mostly fixes and cleanups
in 'net' overlapping with the integration of at91_ether into
macb in 'net-next'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller