Netback and netfront only use one event channel to do TX / RX notification,
which may cause unnecessary wake-up of processing routines. This patch adds a
new feature called feature-split-event-channels to netback, enabling it to
handle TX and RX events separately.
Netback will use tx_irq to notify guest for TX completion, rx_irq for RX
notification.
If frontend doesn't support this feature, tx_irq equals to rx_irq.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch enables user to unload netback module, which is useful when user
wants to upgrade to a newer netback module without rebooting the host.
Netfront cannot handle netback removal event. As we cannot fix all possible
frontends we add module get / put along with vif get / put to avoid
mis-unloading of netback. To unload netback module, user needs to shutdown all
VMs or migrate them to another host or unplug all vifs before hand.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>¬
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A buggy or malicious frontend should not be able to confuse netback.
If we spot anything which is not as it should be then shutdown the
device and don't try to continue with the ring in a potentially
hostile state. Well behaved and non-hostile frontends will not be
penalised.
As well as making the existing checks for such errors fatal also add a
new check that ensures that there isn't an insane number of requests
on the ring (i.e. more than would fit in the ring). If the ring
contains garbage then previously is was possible to loop over this
insane number, getting an error each time and therefore not generating
any more pending requests and therefore not exiting the loop in
xen_netbk_tx_build_gops for an externded period.
Also turn various netdev_dbg calls which no precipitate a fatal error
into netdev_err, they are rate limited because the device is shutdown
afterwards.
This fixes at least one known DoS/softlockup of the backend domain.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The xenbus module provides xenbus_map_ring_valloc() and
xenbus_map_ring_vfree(). Use these to map the Tx and Rx ring pages
granted by the frontend.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The later causes warnings with gcc 4.5+. __CONST_RING_SIZE was introduced in
667c78afae to fix this but as netback wasn't upstream at the time it did not
benefit, hence:
CC drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.o
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:110:37: warning: variably modified 'grant_copy_op' at file scope [enabled by default]
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:111:30: warning: variably modified 'meta' at file scope [enabled by default]
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c: In function 'xen_netbk_rx_action':
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:584:6: warning: variable 'irq' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
Thanks to Witold Baryluk for pointing this out.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
netback is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver in
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by
frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs and even Windows.
The patch is based on the driver from the xen.git pvops kernel tree but
has been put through the checkpatch.pl wringer plus several manual
cleanup passes and review iterations. The driver has been moved from
drivers/xen/netback to drivers/net/xen-netback.
One major change from xen.git is that the guest transmit path (i.e. what
looks like receive to netback) has been significantly reworked to remove
the dependency on the out of tree PageForeign page flag (a core kernel
patch which enables a per page destructor callback on the final
put_page). This page flag was used in order to implement a grant map
based transmit path (where guest pages are mapped directly into SKB
frags). Instead this version of netback uses grant copy operations into
regular memory belonging to the backend domain. Reinstating the grant
map functionality is something which I would like to revisit in the
future.
Note that this driver depends on 2e820f58f7 "xen/irq: implement
bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irqhandler for backend drivers" which is in
linux next via the "xen-two" tree and is intended for the 2.6.39 merge
window:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/backends
this branch has only that single commit since 2.6.38-rc2 and is safe for
cross merging into the net branch.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wei Liu