From: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 5:15 PM
>
> The fcopy and vss callback functions could be running in a tasklet
> at the same time they are called in hv_poll_channel(). Current code
> serializes the invocations of these functions, and their accesses to
> the channel ring buffer, by sending an IPI to the CPU that is allowed
> to access the ring buffer, cf. hv_poll_channel(). This IPI mechanism
> becomes infeasible if we allow changing the CPU that a channel will
> interrupt. Instead modify the callback wrappers to always execute
> the fcopy and vss callbacks in a tasklet, thus mirroring the solution
> for the kvp callback functions adopted since commit a3ade8cc474d8
> ("HV: properly delay KVP packets when negotiation is in progress").
> This will ensure that the callback function can't run on two CPUs at
> the same time.
>
> Suggested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c | 2 +-
> drivers/hv/hv_snapshot.c | 2 +-
> drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h | 7 +------
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
