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| netdev/build_32bit | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
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| netdev/stable | success | Stable not CCed |
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:34:48PM +0000, Ramsay, Lincoln wrote: > When performing IPv6 forwarding, there is an expectation that SKBs > will have some headroom. When forwarding a packet from the aquantia > driver, this does not always happen, triggering a kernel warning. > > The build_skb path fails to allow for an SKB header, but the hardware > buffer it is built around won't allow for this anyway. Just always use the > slower codepath that copies memory into an allocated SKB. > > Signed-off-by: Lincoln Ramsay <lincoln.ramsay@opengear.com> > --- (Next time please include in the subject the tree that you're targetting the patch) I feel like it's only a workaround, not a real solution. On previous thread Igor says: "The limitation here is we can't tell HW on granularity less than 1K." Are you saying that the minimum headroom that we could provide is 1k? Maybe put more pressure on memory side and pull in order-1 pages, provide this big headroom and tailroom for skb_shared_info and use build_skb by default? With standard 1500 byte MTU. This issue would pop up again if this driver would like to support XDP where 256 byte headroom will have to be provided. [...]
Ramsay, Lincoln <Lincoln.Ramsay@digi.com> wrote: > When performing IPv6 forwarding, there is an expectation that SKBs > will have some headroom. When forwarding a packet from the aquantia > driver, this does not always happen, triggering a kernel warning. > > The build_skb path fails to allow for an SKB header, but the hardware For build_skb path to work the buffer scheme would need to be changed to reserve headroom, so yes, I think that the proposed patch is the most convenient solution. > buffer it is built around won't allow for this anyway. Just always use the > slower codepath that copies memory into an allocated SKB. I thought this changes the driver to always copy the entire packet, but thats not true, see below. > It seems that skb_headroom is only 14, when it is expected to be >= 16. Yes, kernel expects to have some headroom in skbs. > aq_ring.c has this code (edited slightly for brevity): > > if (buff->is_eop && buff->len <= AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX - AQ_SKB_ALIGN) { > skb = build_skb(aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX); > skb_put(skb, buff->len); > } else { > skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE); > > There is a significant difference between the SKB produced by these 2 code paths. When napi_alloc_skb creates an SKB, there is a certain amount of headroom reserved. The same pattern appears to be used in all of the other ethernet drivers I have looked at. However, this is not done in the build_skb codepath. I think the above should be part of the commit message rather than this meta-space (which gets removed by git-am). > + skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE); > + if (unlikely(!skb)) { AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE is 256 byte, so for larger packets ... > + memcpy(__skb_put(skb, hdr_len), aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), > + ALIGN(hdr_len, sizeof(long))); This only copies the initial part and then... > + if (buff->len - hdr_len > 0) { > + skb_add_rx_frag(skb, 0, buff->rxdata.page, > + buff->rxdata.pg_off + hdr_len, > + buff->len - hdr_len, > AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX); The rest is added as a frag. IOW, this patch looks good to me, but could you update the commit message so it becomes clear that this doesn't result in a full copy? Perhaps something like: 'Just always use the napi_alloc_skb() code path that passes the buffer as a page fragment', or similar. Thanks.
On 20/11/2020 1:49 am, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > External Email > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:34:48PM +0000, Ramsay, Lincoln wrote: >> When performing IPv6 forwarding, there is an expectation that SKBs >> will have some headroom. When forwarding a packet from the aquantia >> driver, this does not always happen, triggering a kernel warning. >> >> The build_skb path fails to allow for an SKB header, but the hardware >> buffer it is built around won't allow for this anyway. Just always use > the >> slower codepath that copies memory into an allocated SKB. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lincoln Ramsay <lincoln.ramsay@opengear.com> >> --- > > (Next time please include in the subject the tree that you're targetting > the patch) > > I feel like it's only a workaround, not a real solution. On previous > thread Igor says: > > "The limitation here is we can't tell HW on granularity less than 1K." > > Are you saying that the minimum headroom that we could provide is 1k? We can tell HW to place packets with 4 bytes granularity addresses, but the problem is the length granularity of this buffer - 1K. This means we can do as Ramsay initially suggested - just offset the packet placement. But then we have to guarantee that 1K after this offset is available to HW. Since normal layout is 1400 packets - we do use 2K (half page) for each packet. This way we reuse each allocated page for at least two packets (and putting skb_shared into the remaining 512b). Obviously we may allocate 4K page for a single packet, and tell HW that it can use 3K for data. This'll give 1K headroom. Quite an overload - assuming IMIX is of 0.5K - 1.4K.. Of course that depends on a usecase. If you know all your traffic is 16K jumbos - putting 1K headroom is very small overhead on memory usage. > Maybe put more pressure on memory side and pull in order-1 pages, provide > this big headroom and tailroom for skb_shared_info and use build_skb by > default? With standard 1500 byte MTU. I know many customers do consider AQC chips in near embedded environments (routers, etc). They really do care about memories. So that could be risky. > This issue would pop up again if this driver would like to support XDP > where 256 byte headroom will have to be provided. Actually it already popped. Thats one of the reasons I'm delaying with xdp patch series for this driver. I think the best tradeoff here would be allocating order 1 or 2 pages (i.e. 8K or 16K), and reuse the page for multiple placements of 2K XDP packets: (256+2048)*3 = 6912 (1K overhead for each 3 packets) (256+2048)*7 = 16128 (200b overhead over 7 packets) Regards, Igor
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:18:34AM +0300, Igor Russkikh wrote: > > > On 20/11/2020 1:49 am, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > > External Email > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:34:48PM +0000, Ramsay, Lincoln wrote: > >> When performing IPv6 forwarding, there is an expectation that SKBs > >> will have some headroom. When forwarding a packet from the aquantia > >> driver, this does not always happen, triggering a kernel warning. > >> > >> The build_skb path fails to allow for an SKB header, but the hardware > >> buffer it is built around won't allow for this anyway. Just always use > > the > >> slower codepath that copies memory into an allocated SKB. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Lincoln Ramsay <lincoln.ramsay@opengear.com> > >> --- > > > > (Next time please include in the subject the tree that you're targetting > > the patch) > > > > I feel like it's only a workaround, not a real solution. On previous > > thread Igor says: > > > > "The limitation here is we can't tell HW on granularity less than 1K." > > > > Are you saying that the minimum headroom that we could provide is 1k? > > We can tell HW to place packets with 4 bytes granularity addresses, but the > problem is the length granularity of this buffer - 1K. > > This means we can do as Ramsay initially suggested - just offset the packet > placement. But then we have to guarantee that 1K after this offset is > available to HW. Ok, I see, thanks for clarifying. > > Since normal layout is 1400 packets - we do use 2K (half page) for each packet. What is 'normal layout is 1400 packets' ? Didn't you mean the 1500 byte standard MTU? So this is what you've been trying to tell me - that for 1500 byte mtu and 1k HW granularity you need to provide to HW 2k of contiguous space, correct? > This way we reuse each allocated page for at least two packets (and putting > skb_shared into the remaining 512b). I don't think I follow that. I thought that 2k needs to be exclusive for HW and now you're saying that for remaining 512 bytes you can do whatever you want. If that's true then I think you can have build_skb support and I don't see that 1k granularity as a limitation. > > Obviously we may allocate 4K page for a single packet, and tell HW that it can > use 3K for data. This'll give 1K headroom. Quite an overload - assuming IMIX > is of 0.5K - 1.4K.. > > Of course that depends on a usecase. If you know all your traffic is 16K > jumbos - putting 1K headroom is very small overhead on memory usage. > > > Maybe put more pressure on memory side and pull in order-1 pages, provide > > this big headroom and tailroom for skb_shared_info and use build_skb by > > default? With standard 1500 byte MTU. > I know many customers do consider AQC chips in near embedded environments > (routers, etc). They really do care about memories. So that could be risky. We have a knob that is controlled by ethtool's priv flag so you can change the memory model and pull the build_skb out of the picture. Just FYI. > > > This issue would pop up again if this driver would like to support XDP > > where 256 byte headroom will have to be provided. > > Actually it already popped. Thats one of the reasons I'm delaying with xdp > patch series for this driver. > > I think the best tradeoff here would be allocating order 1 or 2 pages (i.e. 8K > or 16K), and reuse the page for multiple placements of 2K XDP packets: > > (256+2048)*3 = 6912 (1K overhead for each 3 packets) > > (256+2048)*7 = 16128 (200b overhead over 7 packets) And for XDP_PASS you would use build_skb? Then tailroom needs to be provided. > > Regards, > Igor > > >
>> >> Since normal layout is 1400 packets - we do use 2K (half page) for each > packet. > > What is 'normal layout is 1400 packets' ? Didn't you mean the 1500 byte > standard MTU? So this is what you've been trying to tell me - that for > 1500 byte mtu and 1k HW granularity you need to provide to HW 2k of > contiguous space, correct? Thats right. Sorry for confusion, of course I meant 1500 standard MTU. > >> This way we reuse each allocated page for at least two packets (and > putting >> skb_shared into the remaining 512b). > > I don't think I follow that. I thought that 2k needs to be exclusive for > HW and now you're saying that for remaining 512 bytes you can do whatever > you want. As soon as we've got packet we know its length. IF its less than 2K minus skb_shared_info - we put that halfpage directly into skb, and placing the tail for shared_info. This is what fast path is doing now. > If that's true then I think you can have build_skb support and I don't see > that 1k granularity as a limitation. Thats true, but we can't use build_skb exactly because of the reason Ramsay discovered. We need extra headspace always. >> I know many customers do consider AQC chips in near embedded > environments >> (routers, etc). They really do care about memories. So that could be > risky. > > We have a knob that is controlled by ethtool's priv flag so you can change > the memory model and pull the build_skb out of the picture. Just FYI. Priv flags are considered harmful today... But I agree in general we lack support of driver fastpath tuning. Like changing page order for large jumbos or page reuse logic knobs. May be devlink params could be considered for this? >>> This issue would pop up again if this driver would like to support XDP >>> where 256 byte headroom will have to be provided. >> >> Actually it already popped. Thats one of the reasons I'm delaying with > xdp >> patch series for this driver. >> >> I think the best tradeoff here would be allocating order 1 or 2 pages > (i.e. 8K >> or 16K), and reuse the page for multiple placements of 2K XDP packets: >> >> (256+2048)*3 = 6912 (1K overhead for each 3 packets) >> >> (256+2048)*7 = 16128 (200b overhead over 7 packets) > > And for XDP_PASS you would use build_skb? Then tailroom needs to be > provided. For efficient PASS - I think both tail and head room should somehow be reserved. Then yes, build_skb could be used.. Thanks Igor
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_ring.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_ring.c index 4f913658eea4..425e8e5afec7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_ring.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_ring.c @@ -413,85 +413,64 @@ int aq_ring_rx_clean(struct aq_ring_s *self, buff->rxdata.pg_off, buff->len, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); - /* for single fragment packets use build_skb() */ - if (buff->is_eop && - buff->len <= AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX - AQ_SKB_ALIGN) { - skb = build_skb(aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), + skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE); + if (unlikely(!skb)) { + u64_stats_update_begin(&self->stats.rx.syncp); + self->stats.rx.skb_alloc_fails++; + u64_stats_update_end(&self->stats.rx.syncp); + err = -ENOMEM; + goto err_exit; + } + if (is_ptp_ring) + buff->len -= + aq_ptp_extract_ts(self->aq_nic, skb, + aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), + buff->len); + + hdr_len = buff->len; + if (hdr_len > AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE) + hdr_len = eth_get_headlen(skb->dev, + aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), + AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE); + + memcpy(__skb_put(skb, hdr_len), aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), + ALIGN(hdr_len, sizeof(long))); + + if (buff->len - hdr_len > 0) { + skb_add_rx_frag(skb, 0, buff->rxdata.page, + buff->rxdata.pg_off + hdr_len, + buff->len - hdr_len, AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX); - if (unlikely(!skb)) { - u64_stats_update_begin(&self->stats.rx.syncp); - self->stats.rx.skb_alloc_fails++; - u64_stats_update_end(&self->stats.rx.syncp); - err = -ENOMEM; - goto err_exit; - } - if (is_ptp_ring) - buff->len -= - aq_ptp_extract_ts(self->aq_nic, skb, - aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), - buff->len); - skb_put(skb, buff->len); page_ref_inc(buff->rxdata.page); - } else { - skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE); - if (unlikely(!skb)) { - u64_stats_update_begin(&self->stats.rx.syncp); - self->stats.rx.skb_alloc_fails++; - u64_stats_update_end(&self->stats.rx.syncp); - err = -ENOMEM; - goto err_exit; - } - if (is_ptp_ring) - buff->len -= - aq_ptp_extract_ts(self->aq_nic, skb, - aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), - buff->len); - - hdr_len = buff->len; - if (hdr_len > AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE) - hdr_len = eth_get_headlen(skb->dev, - aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), - AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE); - - memcpy(__skb_put(skb, hdr_len), aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), - ALIGN(hdr_len, sizeof(long))); - - if (buff->len - hdr_len > 0) { - skb_add_rx_frag(skb, 0, buff->rxdata.page, - buff->rxdata.pg_off + hdr_len, - buff->len - hdr_len, - AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX); - page_ref_inc(buff->rxdata.page); - } + } - if (!buff->is_eop) { - buff_ = buff; - i = 1U; - do { - next_ = buff_->next, - buff_ = &self->buff_ring[next_]; + if (!buff->is_eop) { + buff_ = buff; + i = 1U; + do { + next_ = buff_->next, + buff_ = &self->buff_ring[next_]; - dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu( - aq_nic_get_dev(self->aq_nic), - buff_->rxdata.daddr, - buff_->rxdata.pg_off, - buff_->len, - DMA_FROM_DEVICE); - skb_add_rx_frag(skb, i++, - buff_->rxdata.page, - buff_->rxdata.pg_off, - buff_->len, - AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX); - page_ref_inc(buff_->rxdata.page); - buff_->is_cleaned = 1; - - buff->is_ip_cso &= buff_->is_ip_cso; - buff->is_udp_cso &= buff_->is_udp_cso; - buff->is_tcp_cso &= buff_->is_tcp_cso; - buff->is_cso_err |= buff_->is_cso_err; + dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu( + aq_nic_get_dev(self->aq_nic), + buff_->rxdata.daddr, + buff_->rxdata.pg_off, + buff_->len, + DMA_FROM_DEVICE); + skb_add_rx_frag(skb, i++, + buff_->rxdata.page, + buff_->rxdata.pg_off, + buff_->len, + AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX); + page_ref_inc(buff_->rxdata.page); + buff_->is_cleaned = 1; - } while (!buff_->is_eop); - } + buff->is_ip_cso &= buff_->is_ip_cso; + buff->is_udp_cso &= buff_->is_udp_cso; + buff->is_tcp_cso &= buff_->is_tcp_cso; + buff->is_cso_err |= buff_->is_cso_err; + + } while (!buff_->is_eop); } if (buff->is_vlan)
When performing IPv6 forwarding, there is an expectation that SKBs will have some headroom. When forwarding a packet from the aquantia driver, this does not always happen, triggering a kernel warning. The build_skb path fails to allow for an SKB header, but the hardware buffer it is built around won't allow for this anyway. Just always use the slower codepath that copies memory into an allocated SKB. Signed-off-by: Lincoln Ramsay <lincoln.ramsay@opengear.com> --- We have an Aquantia 10G ethernet interface in one of our devices. While testing a new feature, we discovered a problem with it. The problem only shows up in a very specific situation however. We are using firewalld as a frontend to nftables. It sets up port forwarding (eg. incoming port 5022 -> other_machine:22). We also use masquerading on the outgoing packet, although I'm not sure this is relevant to the issue. IPv4 works fine, IPv6 is a problem. The bug is triggered by trying to hit this forwarded port (ssh -p 5022 addr). It is 100% reproducible. The problem is that we get a kernel warning. It is triggered by this line in neighbour.h: if (WARN_ON_ONCE(skb_headroom(skb) < hh_alen)) { It seems that skb_headroom is only 14, when it is expected to be >= 16. 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ------------[ cut here ]------------ 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 0 at include/net/neighbour.h:493 ip6_finish_output2+0x538/0x580 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] Modules linked in: xt_addrtype xt_MASQUERADE iptable_filter iptable_nat ip6table_raw ip6_tables xt_CT xt_tcpudp iptable_raw ip_tables nf_nat_tftp nft_nat nft_masq nft_objref nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_chain_nat nf_nat xfrm_user nf_conntrack_tftp nf_tables_set x_tables nft_ct nf_tables nfnetlink amd_spirom_nor(O) spi_nor(O) mtd(O) atlantic nct5104_wdt(O) gpio_amd(O) nct7491(O) sch_fq_codel tun qmi_wwan usbnet mii qcserial usb_wwan qcaux nsh nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 i2c_dev cdc_wdm br_netfilter bridge stp llc [last unloaded: nft_reject] 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Tainted: G O 5.4.65-og #1 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] RIP: 0010:ip6_finish_output2+0x538/0x580 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] Code: 87 e9 fc ff ff 44 89 fa 48 89 74 24 20 48 29 d7 e8 2d 4f 0c 00 48 8b 74 24 20 e9 cf fc ff ff 41 bf 10 00 00 00 e9 c4 fc ff ff <0f> 0b 4c 89 ef 41 bc 01 00 00 00 e8 d8 89 f0 ff e9 ee fc ff ff e8 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] RSP: 0018:ffffac2040114ab0 EFLAGS: 00010212 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] RAX: ffff9c041a0bf00e RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: ffff9c041a0bf00e 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] RDX: 000000000000000e RSI: ffff9c03ddf606c8 RDI: 0000000000000000 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] RBP: ffffac2040114b38 R08: 00000000f2000000 R09: 0000000002ec5955 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] R10: ffff9c041e57a440 R11: 000000000000000a R12: ffff9c03ddf60600 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] R13: ffff9c03dcf24800 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000010 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c0426b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] CR2: 0000000000a0b4d8 CR3: 0000000222054000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] Call Trace: 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] <IRQ> 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ? ipv6_confirm+0x85/0xf0 [nf_conntrack] 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ip6_output+0x67/0x130 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ? __ip6_finish_output+0x110/0x110 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ip6_forward+0x582/0x920 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ? ip6_frag_init+0x40/0x40 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ip6_sublist_rcv_finish+0x33/0x50 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ip6_sublist_rcv+0x212/0x240 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ? ip6_rcv_finish_core.isra.0+0xc0/0xc0 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ipv6_list_rcv+0x116/0x140 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1b1/0x260 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1ba/0x2d0 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ? napi_gro_receive+0x50/0x90 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] gro_normal_list.part.0+0x14/0x30 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] napi_complete_done+0x81/0x100 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] aq_vec_poll+0x166/0x190 [atlantic] 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] net_rx_action+0x12b/0x2f0 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] __do_softirq+0xd1/0x213 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] irq_exit+0xc8/0xd0 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] do_IRQ+0x48/0xd0 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] common_interrupt+0xf/0xf 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] </IRQ> 2020-10-19 21:24:24 DEBUG [console] ---[ end trace c1cba758301d342f ]--- After much hunting and debugging, I think I have figured out the issue here. aq_ring.c has this code (edited slightly for brevity): if (buff->is_eop && buff->len <= AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX - AQ_SKB_ALIGN) { skb = build_skb(aq_buf_vaddr(&buff->rxdata), AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX); skb_put(skb, buff->len); } else { skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, AQ_CFG_RX_HDR_SIZE); There is a significant difference between the SKB produced by these 2 code paths. When napi_alloc_skb creates an SKB, there is a certain amount of headroom reserved. The same pattern appears to be used in all of the other ethernet drivers I have looked at. However, this is not done in the build_skb codepath. I believe that this is the ultimate cause of the warning we are seeing. My original proposed patch followed a pattern used in the igb driver. Some extra space in the buffer was used to hold the SKB headroom. However, this is problematic because the hardware doesn't understand this and it may overwrite data. This patch removes the build_skb path entirely, avoiding the issue. It was tested as a patch against Linux 5.8. .../net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_ring.c | 127 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)