Network devices can allocate reasources and private memory using
netdev_ops->ndo_init(). However, the release of these resources
can occur in one of two different places.
Either netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() or netdev->destructor().
The decision of which operation frees the resources depends upon
whether it is necessary for all netdev refs to be released before it
is safe to perform the freeing.
netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() presumably can occur right after the
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier completes and the unicast and multicast
address lists are flushed.
netdev->destructor(), on the other hand, does not run until the
netdev references all go away.
Further complicating the situation is that netdev->destructor()
almost universally does also a free_netdev().
This creates a problem for the logic in register_netdevice().
Because all callers of register_netdevice() manage the freeing
of the netdev, and invoke free_netdev(dev) if register_netdevice()
fails.
If netdev_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, but something else fails inside
of register_netdevice(), it does call ndo_ops->ndo_uninit(). But
it is not able to invoke netdev->destructor().
This is because netdev->destructor() will do a free_netdev() and
then the caller of register_netdevice() will do the same.
However, this means that the resources that would normally be released
by netdev->destructor() will not be.
Over the years drivers have added local hacks to deal with this, by
invoking their destructor parts by hand when register_netdevice()
fails.
Many drivers do not try to deal with this, and instead we have leaks.
Let's close this hole by formalizing the distinction between what
private things need to be freed up by netdev->destructor() and whether
the driver needs unregister_netdevice() to perform the free_netdev().
netdev->priv_destructor() performs all actions to free up the private
resources that used to be freed by netdev->destructor(), except for
free_netdev().
netdev->needs_free_netdev is a boolean that indicates whether
free_netdev() should be done at the end of unregister_netdevice().
Now, register_netdevice() can sanely release all resources after
ndo_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, by invoking both ndo_ops->ndo_uninit()
and netdev->priv_destructor().
And at the end of unregister_netdevice(), we invoke
netdev->priv_destructor() and optionally call free_netdev().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We are going to add more parameters to find_vqs, let's wrap the call so
we don't need to tweak all drivers every time.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Add a struct irq_affinity pointer to the find_vqs methods, which if set
is used to tell the PCI layer to create the MSI-X vectors for our I/O
virtqueues with the proper affinity from the start. Compared to after
the fact affinity hints this gives us an instantly working setup and
allows to allocate the irq descritors node-local and avoid interconnect
traffic. Last but not least this will allow blk-mq queues are created
based on the interrupt affinity for storage drivers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The commit d75b1ade56 (net: less
interrupt masking in NAPI) breaks caif.
It is now required that if the entire budget is consumed when poll
returns, the napi poll_list must remain empty. However, like some
other drivers caif tries to do a last-ditch check and if there is
more work it will call napi_schedule and then immediately process
some of this new work. Should the entire budget be consumed while
processing such new work then we will violate the new caller
contract.
This patch fixes this by not touching any work when we reschedule
in caif.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This lets the transport do endian conversion if necessary, and insulates
the drivers from the difference.
Most drivers can use the simple helpers virtio_cread() and virtio_cwrite().
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Remove our (soon to be) bouncing email addresses,
and update Dmitri's address.
Dmitry will take over as maintainer for CAIF from now on.
Cc: Vikram Arv <vikram.arv@stericsson.com>
Cc: Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@stericsson.com>
Cc: Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@lockless.no>
Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Dmity Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@lockless.no>
Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling
case instead of 0, as returned elsewhere in this function.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Acked-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Check that vringh_config is not NULL before using it.
Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Check on the correct return value from
vringh_notify_enable_kern(). It returns false if
more packets are available, not true.
Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We never add buffers with input and output parts, so use the new accessors.
Cc: Sjur Brendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Add the CAIF Virtio shared memory driver for talking
to a modem.
This CAIF Link layer communicates to the modem over
shared memory. It is implemented as a virtio_driver.
The underlying virtio device is managed by the remoteproc
framework. The Virtio queue is used for transmitting data
to the modem, and the new vringh is used for receiving data.
Genalloc is used for managing the shared memory used for TX
data. The default dma-alloc-coherent allocator can only
allocate whole pages, and this wastes too much shared memory.
Flow control is implemented by stopping the TX-queues if the
virtio queues go full or we run out of memory. Queued are
reopened when queues are below the watermark.
NAPI is used in RX path, and a dedicated tasklet is used
for releasing TX buffers.
Signed-off-by: Erwan Yvin <erwan.yvin@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor fixes)