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Commit 6838a35a authored by Mark Zhang's avatar Mark Zhang Committed by Saeed Mahameed
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net/mlx5: Use a separate work queue for fib event handling



In VF lag mode when remove the bonding module without bring down the
bond device first, we could potentially have circular dependency when we
unload IB devices and also handle fib events:
1. The bond work starts first;
2. The "modprobe -rv bonding" process tries to release the bond device,
   with the "pernet_ops_rwsem" lock hold;
3. The bond work blocks in unregister_netdevice_notifier() and waits for
the lock because fib event came right before;
4. The kernel fib module tries to free all the fib entries by broadcasting
   the "FIB_EVENT_NH_DEL" event;
5. Upon the fib event this lag_mp module holds the fib lock and queue a
   fib work.
So:
   bond work -> modprobe task -> kernel fib module -> lag_mp -> bond work

Today we either reload IB devices in roce lag in nic mode or either handle
fib events in switchdev mode, but a new feature could change that we'll
need to reload IB devices also in switchdev mode so this is a future proof
fix as one may not notice this later.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Zhang <markz@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRoi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
parent e999a734
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