Subject: Re: [net 04/12] net/mlx5: Avoid recovery in probe flows

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 08:52:33 +0200

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 10:29:58AM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On 29 Dec 08:33, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 11:43:23AM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > > From: Shay Drory <[email-masked]>
> > > 
> > > Currently, recovery is done without considering whether the device is
> > > still in probe flow.
> > > This may lead to recovery before device have finished probed
> > > successfully. e.g.: while mlx5_init_one() is running. Recovery flow is
> > > using functionality that is loaded only by mlx5_init_one(), and there
> > > is no point in running recovery without mlx5_init_one() finished
> > > successfully.
> > > 
> > > Fix it by waiting for probe flow to finish and checking whether the
> > > device is probed before trying to perform recovery.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 51d138c2610a ("net/mlx5: Fix health error state handling")
> > > Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <[email-masked]>
> > > Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <[email-masked]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c | 6 ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c
> > > index 86ed87d704f7..96417c5feed7 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c
> > > @@ -674,6 +674,12 @@ static void mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_err_work(struct work_struct *work)
> > >  	dev = container_of(priv, struct mlx5_core_dev, priv);
> > >  	devlink = priv_to_devlink(dev);
> > > 
> > > +	mutex_lock(&dev->intf_state_mutex);
> > > +	if (test_bit(MLX5_DROP_NEW_HEALTH_WORK, &health->flags)) {
> > > +		mlx5_core_err(dev, "health works are not permitted at this stage\n");
> > > +		return;
> > > +	}
> > 

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> > Or another solution is to start health polling only when init complete.
> > 
> 
> Also very complex and very risky to do in rc.
> Health poll should be running on dynamic driver reloads,
> for example devlink reload, but not on first probe.. if we are going to
> start after probe then we will have to stop (sync) any
> health work before .remove, which is a locking nightmare.. we've been there
> before.

I afraid that my proposed solution distracted you. The real issue is
that this patch can't be correct.

Let's focus on MLX5_DROP_NEW_HEALTH_WORK bit. It is checked while holding different
locks, so one of the locks is wrong and not needed.

If MLX5_DROP_NEW_HEALTH_WORK bit can't be changed after/during queuing the work, the newly
added check in mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_err_work will be redundant.

If MLX5_DROP_NEW_HEALTH_WORK bit can be changed after queuing the work. the check is racy and
can have different results immediately after releasing intf_state_mutex.

Thanks