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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v2 1/9] xen-netback: Introduce TX grant map definitions
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 03:21:40PM +0000, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
[...]
> >>>> >
> >>>> >Should this be BUG_ON? AIUI this kthread should be the only one doing
> >>>> >unmap, right?
> >>>The NAPI instance can do it as well if it is a small packet fits
> >>>into PKT_PROT_LEN. But still this scenario shouldn't really happen,
> >>>I was just not sure we have to crash immediately. Maybe handle it as
> >>>a fatal error and destroy the vif?
> >>>
> >It depends. If this is within the trust boundary, i.e. everything at the
> >stage should have been sanitized then we should BUG_ON because there's
> >clearly a bug somewhere in the sanitization process, or in the
> >interaction of various backend routines.
>
> My understanding is that crashing should be avoided if we can bail
> out somehow. At this point there is clearly a bug in netback
> somewhere, something unmapped that page before it should have
> happened, or at least that array get corrupted somehow. However
> there is a chance that xenvif_fatal_tx_err() can contain the issue,
> and the rest of the system can go unaffected.
>

That would make debugging much harder if a crash is caused by a previous
corrupted array and we pretend we can carry on serving IMHO. Now netback
is having three routines (NAPI, two kthreads) to serve a single vif, the
interation among them makes bug hard to reproduce.

Wei.


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