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Commit 99c07c43 authored by Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar Jesper Dangaard Brouer Committed by David S. Miller
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xdp: tracking page_pool resources and safe removal

This patch is needed before we can allow drivers to use page_pool for
DMA-mappings. Today with page_pool and XDP return API, it is possible to
remove the page_pool object (from rhashtable), while there are still
in-flight packet-pages. This is safely handled via RCU and failed lookups in
__xdp_return() fallback to call put_page(), when page_pool object is gone.
In-case page is still DMA mapped, this will result in page note getting
correctly DMA unmapped.

To solve this, the page_pool is extended with tracking in-flight pages. And
XDP disconnect system queries page_pool and waits, via workqueue, for all
in-flight pages to be returned.

To avoid killing performance when tracking in-flight pages, the implement
use two (unsigned) counters, that in placed on different cache-lines, and
can be used to deduct in-flight packets. This is done by mapping the
unsigned "sequence" counters onto signed Two's complement arithmetic
operations. This is e.g. used by kernel's time_after macros, described in
kernel commit 1ba3aab3 and 5a581b36

, and also explained in RFC1982.

The trick is these two incrementing counters only need to be read and
compared, when checking if it's safe to free the page_pool structure. Which
will only happen when driver have disconnected RX/alloc side. Thus, on a
non-fast-path.

It is chosen that page_pool tracking is also enabled for the non-DMA
use-case, as this can be used for statistics later.

After this patch, using page_pool requires more strict resource "release",
e.g. via page_pool_release_page() that was introduced in this patchset, and
previous patches implement/fix this more strict requirement.

Drivers no-longer call page_pool_destroy(). Drivers already call
xdp_rxq_info_unreg() which call xdp_rxq_info_unreg_mem_model(), which will
attempt to disconnect the mem id, and if attempt fails schedule the
disconnect for later via delayed workqueue.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIlias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 29b006a6
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