Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 1 author, 2017-07-31

Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] pci-hyperv: do not sleep in compose_msi_msg

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2017-07-31 23:40:38
Also in: linux-pci

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:37:12 -0700
Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:
The setup of MSI with Hyper-V host was sleeping with locks held.
This error is reported when doing SR-IOV hotplug with kernel built with lockdep.

    BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/sched/completion.c:93
    in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1405, name: ip
    3 locks held by ip/1405:
   #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff976b10bb>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1b/0x40
   #1:  (&desc->request_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff970ddd33>] __setup_irq+0xb3/0x720
   #2:  (&irq_desc_lock_class){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff970ddd65>] __setup_irq+0xe5/0x720
   irq event stamp: 3476
   hardirqs last  enabled at (3475): [<ffffffff971b3005>] get_page_from_freelist+0x225/0xc90
   hardirqs last disabled at (3476): [<ffffffff978024e7>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x27/0x90
   softirqs last  enabled at (2446): [<ffffffffc05ef0b0>] ixgbevf_configure+0x380/0x7c0 [ixgbevf]
   softirqs last disabled at (2444): [<ffffffffc05ef08d>] ixgbevf_configure+0x35d/0x7c0 [ixgbevf]

The workaround is to poll for host response instead of blocking on
completion.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
This patch is not directly network related. It needs to go through PCI.

I will resend the series.
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