Re: [BUG] linux-2.6.28-rc3 regression: IRQ smp_affinities not respected

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Dec 02 2008 - 01:05:20 EST


Michael Chan a Ãcrit :
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:14 -0800, Michael Chan wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 01:01 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
Eric Dumazet a Ãcrit :
Michael Chan a Ãcrit :
I believe this may be the patch that broke it:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ce6fce4295ba727b36fdc73040e444bd1aae64cd


I don't remember all the details, but the Broadcom 5708 chip is
affected because it does not support MSI per-vector masking.

One way to get around is to disable MSI with bnx2 parameter
disable_msi=1.

I tried this MSI disabling and yes, it now works.

16: 42726 128 105 106 89 89 145 152 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, eth0, eth1

I believe the bnx2 driver doesnt work at all if !disable_msi (default setting)

Doing a "echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online" just freeze network

No messages logged

If loaded with disable_msi=1, the cpu unplug works as expected.

Thats a pretty serious issue.

Yes, that's the same issue and it is serious. If MSI is being delivered
to CPU 1 and you then take CPU 1 offline, the MSI will not be delivered
to another CPU.

I think I can detect this problem in bnx2_timer() and try to recover.
I'll post a patch when I have something ready. Thanks.

[PATCH] bnx2: Add workaround to handle missed MSI.

The bnx2 chips do not support per MSI vector masking. On 5706/5708, new MSI
address/data are stored only when the MSI enable bit is toggled. As a result,
SMP affinity no longer works in the latest kernel. A more serious problem is
that the driver will no longer receive interrupts when the MSI receiving CPU
goes offline.

The workaround in this patch only addresses the problem of CPU going offline.
When that happens, the driver's timer function will detect that it is making
no forward progress on pending interrupt events and will recover from it.

Eric Dumazet reported the problem.

We also found that if an interrupt is internally asserted while MSI and INTA
are disabled, the chip will end up in the same state after MSI is re-enabled.
The same workaround is needed for this problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/bnx2.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/net/bnx2.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2.c b/drivers/net/bnx2.c
index 182f241..0e2218d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnx2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnx2.c
@@ -3147,6 +3147,28 @@ bnx2_has_work(struct bnx2_napi *bnapi)
return 0;
}
+static void
+bnx2_chk_missed_msi(struct bnx2 *bp)
+{
+ struct bnx2_napi *bnapi = &bp->bnx2_napi[0];
+ u32 msi_ctrl;
+
+ if (bnx2_has_work(bnapi)) {
+ msi_ctrl = REG_RD(bp, BNX2_PCICFG_MSI_CONTROL);
+ if (!(msi_ctrl & BNX2_PCICFG_MSI_CONTROL_ENABLE))
+ return;
+
+ if (bnapi->last_status_idx == bp->idle_chk_status_idx) {
+ REG_WR(bp, BNX2_PCICFG_MSI_CONTROL, msi_ctrl &
+ ~BNX2_PCICFG_MSI_CONTROL_ENABLE);
+ REG_WR(bp, BNX2_PCICFG_MSI_CONTROL, msi_ctrl);
+ bnx2_msi(bp->irq_tbl[0].vector, bnapi);
+ }
+ }
+
+ bp->idle_chk_status_idx = bnapi->last_status_idx;
+}
+
static void bnx2_poll_link(struct bnx2 *bp, struct bnx2_napi *bnapi)
{
struct status_block *sblk = bnapi->status_blk.msi;
@@ -3221,14 +3243,15 @@ static int bnx2_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
work_done = bnx2_poll_work(bp, bnapi, work_done, budget);
- if (unlikely(work_done >= budget))
- break;
-
/* bnapi->last_status_idx is used below to tell the hw how
* much work has been processed, so we must read it before
* checking for more work.
*/
bnapi->last_status_idx = sblk->status_idx;
+
+ if (unlikely(work_done >= budget))
+ break;
+
rmb();
if (likely(!bnx2_has_work(bnapi))) {
netif_rx_complete(bp->dev, napi);
@@ -4581,6 +4604,8 @@ bnx2_init_chip(struct bnx2 *bp)
for (i = 0; i < BNX2_MAX_MSIX_VEC; i++)
bp->bnx2_napi[i].last_status_idx = 0;
+ bp->idle_chk_status_idx = 0xffff;
+
bp->rx_mode = BNX2_EMAC_RX_MODE_SORT_MODE;
/* Set up how to generate a link change interrupt. */
@@ -5729,6 +5754,10 @@ bnx2_timer(unsigned long data)
if (atomic_read(&bp->intr_sem) != 0)
goto bnx2_restart_timer;
+ if ((bp->flags & (BNX2_FLAG_USING_MSI | BNX2_FLAG_ONE_SHOT_MSI)) ==
+ BNX2_FLAG_USING_MSI)
+ bnx2_chk_missed_msi(bp);
+
bnx2_send_heart_beat(bp);
bp->stats_blk->stat_FwRxDrop =
diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2.h b/drivers/net/bnx2.h
index 0763108..2f43c45 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnx2.h
+++ b/drivers/net/bnx2.h
@@ -378,6 +378,9 @@ struct l2_fhdr {
* pci_config_l definition
* offset: 0000
*/
+#define BNX2_PCICFG_MSI_CONTROL 0x00000058
+#define BNX2_PCICFG_MSI_CONTROL_ENABLE (1L<<16)
+
#define BNX2_PCICFG_MISC_CONFIG 0x00000068
#define BNX2_PCICFG_MISC_CONFIG_TARGET_BYTE_SWAP (1L<<2)
#define BNX2_PCICFG_MISC_CONFIG_TARGET_MB_WORD_SWAP (1L<<3)
@@ -6882,6 +6885,9 @@ struct bnx2 {
u8 num_tx_rings;
u8 num_rx_rings;
+
+ u32 idle_chk_status_idx;
+
};
#define REG_RD(bp, offset) \

Thanks a lot Michael

I tested your patch on my machine.

I confirm CPU unplug/hotplug works now (If correcting a bug in oprofile first)
NIC doesnt freeze anymore

Eric

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