From: Ross Lagerwall Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:40:59 +0000 (+0100) Subject: xen/netback: Wake dealloc thread after completing zerocopy work X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=57b229063ae6dc65036209018dc7f4290cc026bb;p=linux-beck.git xen/netback: Wake dealloc thread after completing zerocopy work Waking the dealloc thread before decrementing inflight_packets is racy because it means the thread may go to sleep before inflight_packets is decremented. If kthread_stop() has already been called, the dealloc thread may wait forever with nothing to wake it. Instead, wake the thread only after decrementing inflight_packets. Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c index 1a83e190fc15..28577a31549d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c @@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ void xenvif_skb_zerocopy_prepare(struct xenvif_queue *queue, void xenvif_skb_zerocopy_complete(struct xenvif_queue *queue) { atomic_dec(&queue->inflight_packets); + + /* Wake the dealloc thread _after_ decrementing inflight_packets so + * that if kthread_stop() has already been called, the dealloc thread + * does not wait forever with nothing to wake it. + */ + wake_up(&queue->dealloc_wq); } int xenvif_schedulable(struct xenvif *vif) diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c index 1b406e706a01..3f44b522b831 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c @@ -1541,7 +1541,6 @@ void xenvif_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool zerocopy_success) smp_wmb(); queue->dealloc_prod++; } while (ubuf); - wake_up(&queue->dealloc_wq); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&queue->callback_lock, flags); if (likely(zerocopy_success))