xen-netback: use jiffies_64 value to calculate credit timeout
authorWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:07:57 +0000 (12:07 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:01:59 +0000 (14:01 +0000)
commit5e14dc9525b13e69991e577d9c6e0d768b1fe29c
treec35284d50c4c03261922bd118657ae819e6167b8
parentd08b0a5594dde8b0fbda5d38cb01a81954a9829e
xen-netback: use jiffies_64 value to calculate credit timeout

[ Upstream commit 059dfa6a93b779516321e5112db9d7621b1367ba ]

time_after_eq() only works if the delta is < MAX_ULONG/2.

For a 32bit Dom0, if netfront sends packets at a very low rate, the time
between subsequent calls to tx_credit_exceeded() may exceed MAX_ULONG/2
and the test for timer_after_eq() will be incorrect. Credit will not be
replenished and the guest may become unable to send packets (e.g., if
prior to the long gap, all credit was exhausted).

Use jiffies_64 variant to mitigate this problem for 32bit Dom0.

Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jason Luan <jianhai.luan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c