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<title>vmbus: re-enable channel tasklet</title>
<updated>2017-07-17T13:00:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>stephen@networkplumber.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-25T19:47:46+00:00</published>
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This problem shows up in 4.11 when netvsc driver is removed and reloaded.
The problem is that the channel is closed during module removal and the
tasklet for processing responses is disabled. When module is reloaded
the channel is reopened but the tasklet is marked as disabled.
The fix is to re-enable tasklet at the end of close which gets it back
to the initial state.

The issue is less urgent in 4.12 since network driver now uses NAPI
and not the tasklet; and other VMBUS devices are rarely unloaded/reloaded.

Fixes: dad72a1d2844 ("vmbus: remove hv_event_tasklet_disable/enable")

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;sthemmin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This problem shows up in 4.11 when netvsc driver is removed and reloaded.
The problem is that the channel is closed during module removal and the
tasklet for processing responses is disabled. When module is reloaded
the channel is reopened but the tasklet is marked as disabled.
The fix is to re-enable tasklet at the end of close which gets it back
to the initial state.

The issue is less urgent in 4.12 since network driver now uses NAPI
and not the tasklet; and other VMBUS devices are rarely unloaded/reloaded.

Fixes: dad72a1d2844 ("vmbus: remove hv_event_tasklet_disable/enable")

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;sthemmin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T19:10:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T19:10:33+00:00</published>
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates of the usual suspects: lpfc, qla2xxx, bnx2fc,
  qedf, hpsa, hisi_sas, smartpqi, cxlflash, aacraid, csiostor along with
  a host of minor and miscellaneous changes"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (276 commits)
  qla2xxx: Fix NVMe entry_type for iocb packet on BE system
  scsi: qla2xxx: avoid unused-function warning
  scsi: snic: fix a couple of spelling mistakes/typos
  scsi: qla2xxx: fix a bunch of typos and spelling mistakes
  scsi: lpfc: don't double count abort errors
  scsi: lpfc: spin_lock_irq() is not nestable
  scsi: hisi_sas: optimise DMA slot memory
  scsi: ibmvfc: constify dev_pm_ops structures.
  scsi: ibmvscsi: constify dev_pm_ops structures.
  scsi: cxlflash: Update debug prints in reset handlers
  scsi: cxlflash: Update send_tmf() parameters
  scsi: cxlflash: Avoid double free of character device
  scsi: Add STARGET_CREATED_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state
  scsi: ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.
  scsi: ufs: flush eh_work when eh_work scheduled.
  scsi: qla2xxx: Protect access to qpair members with qpair-&gt;qp_lock
  scsi: sun_esp: fix device reference leaks
  scsi: fnic: changing queue command to return result DID_IMM_RETRY when rport is init
  scsi: fnic: correct speed display and add support for 25,40 and 100G
  scsi: fnic: added timestamp reporting in fnic debug stats
  ...
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates of the usual suspects: lpfc, qla2xxx, bnx2fc,
  qedf, hpsa, hisi_sas, smartpqi, cxlflash, aacraid, csiostor along with
  a host of minor and miscellaneous changes"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (276 commits)
  qla2xxx: Fix NVMe entry_type for iocb packet on BE system
  scsi: qla2xxx: avoid unused-function warning
  scsi: snic: fix a couple of spelling mistakes/typos
  scsi: qla2xxx: fix a bunch of typos and spelling mistakes
  scsi: lpfc: don't double count abort errors
  scsi: lpfc: spin_lock_irq() is not nestable
  scsi: hisi_sas: optimise DMA slot memory
  scsi: ibmvfc: constify dev_pm_ops structures.
  scsi: ibmvscsi: constify dev_pm_ops structures.
  scsi: cxlflash: Update debug prints in reset handlers
  scsi: cxlflash: Update send_tmf() parameters
  scsi: cxlflash: Avoid double free of character device
  scsi: Add STARGET_CREATED_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state
  scsi: ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.
  scsi: ufs: flush eh_work when eh_work scheduled.
  scsi: qla2xxx: Protect access to qpair members with qpair-&gt;qp_lock
  scsi: sun_esp: fix device reference leaks
  scsi: fnic: changing queue command to return result DID_IMM_RETRY when rport is init
  scsi: fnic: correct speed display and add support for 25,40 and 100G
  scsi: fnic: added timestamp reporting in fnic debug stats
  ...
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<entry>
<title>scsi: storvsc: remove unnecessary channel inbound lock</title>
<updated>2017-06-13T00:48:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>stephen@networkplumber.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-18T16:18:12+00:00</published>
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In storvsc driver, inbound messages do not go through inbound lock.  The
only effect of this lock was is to provide a barrier for connect and
remove logic.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;sthemmin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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In storvsc driver, inbound messages do not go through inbound lock.  The
only effect of this lock was is to provide a barrier for connect and
remove logic.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;sthemmin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Close timing hole that can corrupt per-cpu page</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T13:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Kelley</name>
<email>mikelley@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-18T17:46:07+00:00</published>
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Extend the disabling of preemption to include the hypercall so that
another thread can't get the CPU and corrupt the per-cpu page used
for hypercall arguments.

Cc: &lt;Stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #4.11
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Extend the disabling of preemption to include the hypercall so that
another thread can't get the CPU and corrupt the per-cpu page used
for hypercall arguments.

Cc: &lt;Stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #4.11
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmbus: Reuse uuid_le_to_bin() helper</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T13:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-18T17:46:06+00:00</published>
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Instead of open coded variant use generic helper to convert UUID strings
to binary format.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Instead of open coded variant use generic helper to convert UUID strings
to binary format.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers: hv: vmbus: Increase the time between retries in vmbus_post_msg()</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T13:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>K. Y. Srinivasan</name>
<email>kys@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-18T17:46:05+00:00</published>
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Commit c0bb03924f1a ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Raise retry/wait limits in
vmbus_post_msg()") increased the retry/wait limits of vmbus_post_msg()
to address the new DoS protection policies in WS2016.
Increase the time between retries to make the
code more robust.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit c0bb03924f1a ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Raise retry/wait limits in
vmbus_post_msg()") increased the retry/wait limits of vmbus_post_msg()
to address the new DoS protection policies in WS2016.
Increase the time between retries to make the
code more robust.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hv_utils: fix TimeSync work on pre-TimeSync-v4 hosts</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T13:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-18T17:46:04+00:00</published>
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It was found that ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC packets are handled incorrectly
on WS2012R2, e.g. after the guest is paused and resumed its time is set
to something different from host's time. The problem is that we call
adj_guesttime() with reftime=0 for these old hosts and we don't account
for that in 'if (adj_flags &amp; ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC)' branch and
hv_set_host_time().

While we could've solved this by adding a check like
'if (ts_srv_version &gt; TS_VERSION_3)' to hv_set_host_time() I prefer
to do some refactoring. We don't need to have two separate containers
for host samples, struct host_ts which we use for PTP is enough.

Throw away 'struct adj_time_work' and create hv_get_adj_host_time()
accessor to host_ts to avoid code duplication.

Fixes: 3716a49a81ba ("hv_utils: implement Hyper-V PTP source")
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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It was found that ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC packets are handled incorrectly
on WS2012R2, e.g. after the guest is paused and resumed its time is set
to something different from host's time. The problem is that we call
adj_guesttime() with reftime=0 for these old hosts and we don't account
for that in 'if (adj_flags &amp; ICTIMESYNCFLAG_SYNC)' branch and
hv_set_host_time().

While we could've solved this by adding a check like
'if (ts_srv_version &gt; TS_VERSION_3)' to hv_set_host_time() I prefer
to do some refactoring. We don't need to have two separate containers
for host samples, struct host_ts which we use for PTP is enough.

Throw away 'struct adj_time_work' and create hv_get_adj_host_time()
accessor to host_ts to avoid code duplication.

Fixes: 3716a49a81ba ("hv_utils: implement Hyper-V PTP source")
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hv_utils: drop .getcrosststamp() support from PTP driver</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T13:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-18T17:46:03+00:00</published>
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Turns out that our implementation of .getcrosststamp() never actually
worked. Hyper-V is sending time samples every 5 seconds and this is
too much for get_device_system_crosststamp() as it's interpolation
algorithm (which nobody is currently using in kernel, btw) accounts
for a 'slow' device but we're not slow in Hyper-V, our time reference
is too far away.

.getcrosststamp() is not currently used, get_device_system_crosststamp()
almost always returns -EINVAL and client falls back to using PTP_SYS_OFFSET
so this patch doesn't change much. I also tried doing interpolation
manually (e.g. the same way hv_ptp_gettime() works and it turns out that
we're getting even lower quality:

PTP_SYS_OFFSET_PRECISE with manual interpolation:
* PHC0                     0   3    37     4  -3974ns[-5338ns] +/-  977ns
* PHC0                     0   3    77     7  +2227ns[+3184ns] +/-  576ns
* PHC0                     0   3   177    10  +3060ns[+5220ns] +/-  548ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377    12  +3937ns[+4371ns] +/- 1414ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     6   +764ns[+1240ns] +/- 1047ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     7  -1210ns[-3731ns] +/-  479ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     9   +153ns[-1019ns] +/-  406ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377    12   -872ns[-1793ns] +/-  443ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     5   +701ns[+3599ns] +/-  426ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     5   -923ns[ -375ns] +/- 1062ns

PTP_SYS_OFFSET:
* PHC0                     0   3     7     5    +72ns[+8020ns] +/-  251ns
* PHC0                     0   3    17     5   -885ns[-3661ns] +/-  254ns
* PHC0                     0   3    37     6   -454ns[-5732ns] +/-  258ns
* PHC0                     0   3    77    10  +1183ns[+3754ns] +/-  164ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     5   +579ns[+1137ns] +/-  110ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     7   +501ns[+1064ns] +/-   96ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     9  +1641ns[+3342ns] +/-  106ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     8    -47ns[  +77ns] +/-  160ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     5    +54ns[ +107ns] +/-  102ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     8   -354ns[ -617ns] +/-   89ns

This fact wasn't noticed during the initial testing of the PTP device
somehow but got revealed now. Let's just drop .getcrosststamp()
implementation for now as it doesn't seem to be suitable for us.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Turns out that our implementation of .getcrosststamp() never actually
worked. Hyper-V is sending time samples every 5 seconds and this is
too much for get_device_system_crosststamp() as it's interpolation
algorithm (which nobody is currently using in kernel, btw) accounts
for a 'slow' device but we're not slow in Hyper-V, our time reference
is too far away.

.getcrosststamp() is not currently used, get_device_system_crosststamp()
almost always returns -EINVAL and client falls back to using PTP_SYS_OFFSET
so this patch doesn't change much. I also tried doing interpolation
manually (e.g. the same way hv_ptp_gettime() works and it turns out that
we're getting even lower quality:

PTP_SYS_OFFSET_PRECISE with manual interpolation:
* PHC0                     0   3    37     4  -3974ns[-5338ns] +/-  977ns
* PHC0                     0   3    77     7  +2227ns[+3184ns] +/-  576ns
* PHC0                     0   3   177    10  +3060ns[+5220ns] +/-  548ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377    12  +3937ns[+4371ns] +/- 1414ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     6   +764ns[+1240ns] +/- 1047ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     7  -1210ns[-3731ns] +/-  479ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     9   +153ns[-1019ns] +/-  406ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377    12   -872ns[-1793ns] +/-  443ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     5   +701ns[+3599ns] +/-  426ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     5   -923ns[ -375ns] +/- 1062ns

PTP_SYS_OFFSET:
* PHC0                     0   3     7     5    +72ns[+8020ns] +/-  251ns
* PHC0                     0   3    17     5   -885ns[-3661ns] +/-  254ns
* PHC0                     0   3    37     6   -454ns[-5732ns] +/-  258ns
* PHC0                     0   3    77    10  +1183ns[+3754ns] +/-  164ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     5   +579ns[+1137ns] +/-  110ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     7   +501ns[+1064ns] +/-   96ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     9  +1641ns[+3342ns] +/-  106ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     8    -47ns[  +77ns] +/-  160ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     5    +54ns[ +107ns] +/-  102ns
* PHC0                     0   3   377     8   -354ns[ -617ns] +/-   89ns

This fact wasn't noticed during the initial testing of the PTP device
somehow but got revealed now. Let's just drop .getcrosststamp()
implementation for now as it doesn't seem to be suitable for us.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Get the current time from the current clocksource</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T13:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>K. Y. Srinivasan</name>
<email>kys@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-18T17:46:02+00:00</published>
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The current code uses the MSR based mechanism to get the current tick.
Use the current clock source as that might be more optimal.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The current code uses the MSR based mechanism to get the current tick.
Use the current clock source as that might be more optimal.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>HV: properly delay KVP packets when negotiation is in progress</title>
<updated>2017-05-18T14:55:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Long Li</name>
<email>longli@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-30T23:21:19+00:00</published>
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The host may send multiple negotiation packets
(due to timeout) before the KVP user-mode daemon
is connected. KVP user-mode daemon is connected.
We need to defer processing those packets
until the daemon is negotiated and connected.
It's okay for guest to respond
to all negotiation packets.

In addition, the host may send multiple staged
KVP requests as soon as negotiation is done.
We need to properly process those packets using one
tasklet for exclusive access to ring buffer.

This patch is based on the work of
Nick Meier &lt;Nick.Meier@microsoft.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Long Li &lt;longli@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The host may send multiple negotiation packets
(due to timeout) before the KVP user-mode daemon
is connected. KVP user-mode daemon is connected.
We need to defer processing those packets
until the daemon is negotiated and connected.
It's okay for guest to respond
to all negotiation packets.

In addition, the host may send multiple staged
KVP requests as soon as negotiation is done.
We need to properly process those packets using one
tasklet for exclusive access to ring buffer.

This patch is based on the work of
Nick Meier &lt;Nick.Meier@microsoft.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Long Li &lt;longli@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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