[PATCH 1/2] cxl: Fix driver use count

Frederic Barrat fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Aug 28 18:47:30 AEST 2017


cxl keeps a driver use count, which is used with the hash memory model
on p8 to know when to upgrade local TLBIs to global and to trigger
callbacks to manage the MMU for PSL8.

If a process opens a context and closes without attaching or fails the
attachment, the driver use count is never decremented. As a
consequence, TLB invalidations remain global, even if there are no
active cxl contexts.

We should increment the driver use count when the process is attaching
to the cxl adapter, and not on open. It's not needed before the
adapter starts using the context and the use count is decremented on
the detach path, so it makes more sense.

It affects only the user api. The kernel api is already doing The
Right Thing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Fixes: 7bb5d91a4dda ("cxl: Rework context lifetimes")
---
 drivers/misc/cxl/api.c  | 4 ++++
 drivers/misc/cxl/file.c | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
index 1a138c83f877..e0dfd1eadd70 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
@@ -336,6 +336,10 @@ int cxl_start_context(struct cxl_context *ctx, u64 wed,
 			mmput(ctx->mm);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Increment driver use count. Enables global TLBIs for hash
+	 * and callacks to handle the segment table
+	 */
 	cxl_ctx_get();
 
 	if ((rc = cxl_ops->attach_process(ctx, kernel, wed, 0))) {
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
index 0761271d68c5..b76a491a485d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ static int __afu_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool master)
 
 	pr_devel("afu_open pe: %i\n", ctx->pe);
 	file->private_data = ctx;
-	cxl_ctx_get();
 
 	/* indicate success */
 	rc = 0;
@@ -225,6 +224,12 @@ static long afu_ioctl_start_work(struct cxl_context *ctx,
 	if (ctx->mm)
 		mmput(ctx->mm);
 
+	/*
+	 * Increment driver use count. Enables global TLBIs for hash
+	 * and callacks to handle the segment table
+	 */
+	cxl_ctx_get();
+
 	trace_cxl_attach(ctx, work.work_element_descriptor, work.num_interrupts, amr);
 
 	if ((rc = cxl_ops->attach_process(ctx, false, work.work_element_descriptor,
@@ -233,6 +238,7 @@ static long afu_ioctl_start_work(struct cxl_context *ctx,
 		cxl_adapter_context_put(ctx->afu->adapter);
 		put_pid(ctx->pid);
 		ctx->pid = NULL;
+		cxl_ctx_put();
 		cxl_context_mm_count_put(ctx);
 		goto out;
 	}
-- 
2.11.0



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