vhost_net: poll vhost queue after marking DMA is done
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Mon, 2 Sep 2013 08:41:00 +0000 (16:41 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:54:56 +0000 (06:54 -0700)
[ Upstream commit 19c73b3e08d16ee923f3962df4abf6205127896a ]

We used to poll vhost queue before making DMA is done, this is racy if vhost
thread were waked up before marking DMA is done which can result the signal to
be missed. Fix this by always polling the vhost thread before DMA is done.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/vhost/net.c

index 8ca5ac7..d6a518c 100644 (file)
@@ -307,6 +307,11 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success)
        struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = ubufs->vq;
        int cnt = atomic_read(&ubufs->kref.refcount);
 
+       /* set len to mark this desc buffers done DMA */
+       vq->heads[ubuf->desc].len = success ?
+               VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN : VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN;
+       vhost_net_ubuf_put(ubufs);
+
        /*
         * Trigger polling thread if guest stopped submitting new buffers:
         * in this case, the refcount after decrement will eventually reach 1
@@ -317,10 +322,6 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success)
         */
        if (cnt <= 2 || !(cnt % 16))
                vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
-       /* set len to mark this desc buffers done DMA */
-       vq->heads[ubuf->desc].len = success ?
-               VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN : VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN;
-       vhost_net_ubuf_put(ubufs);
 }
 
 /* Expects to be always run from workqueue - which acts as