Re: [PATCH 2/2] usb-storage: revert from scsi_add_host_with_dma() to scsi_add_host()

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 11/30/20 6:20 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11/30/20 2:30 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 02:23:48PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 11/30/20 1:58 PM, Tom Yan wrote:
>>>>> It's merely a moving of comment moving for/and a no-behavioral-change
>>>>> adaptation for the reversion.>
>>>>
>>>> IMHO the revert of the troublesome commit and the other/new changes really
>>>> should be 2 separate commits. But I will let Alan and Greg have the final
>>>> verdict on this.
>>>
>>> I would prefer to just revert the commits and not do anything
>>> different/special here so late in the release cycle.
>>>
>>> So, if Alan agrees, I'll be glad to do them on my end, I just need the
>>> commit ids for them.
>>
>> The troublesome commit are (in reverse, so revert, order):
>>
>> 5df7ef7d32fe ("uas: bump hw_max_sectors to 2048 blocks for SS or faster drives")
>> 558033c2828f ("uas: fix sdev->host->dma_dev")
>> 0154012f8018 ("usb-storage: fix sdev->host->dma_dev")
>>
>> Alan, the reason for reverting these is that using scsi_add_host_with_dma() as the
>> last 2 patches do, with the dmadev argument of that call pointing to the device
>> for the XHCI controller is causing changes to the DMA settings of the XHCI controller
>> itself which is causing regressions in 5.10, see this email thread:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/fde7e11f-5dfc-8348-c134-a21cb1116285@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
> 
> It's hard to go wrong with reverting, so it's okay with me.
> 
> Still, Hans, have you checked out the difference between the 
> scsi_add_host() and scsi_add_host_with_dma() calls?  It's just a matter 
> of using dev vs. sysdev.  In particular, have you checked to see what 
> those two devices are on your system?

Its not just dev vs sysdev, its iface->dev vs bus->sysdev, and I assume
that the latter is actually the XHCI controller.

my vote goes to reverting to avoid the regression for 5.10, esp. since
this is a clean revert of 3 patches with nothing depending / building
on top of the reverted commits.

Then for 5.11 we can retry to introduce similar changes. I would be happy
to try a new patch-set for 5.11.

> It seems likely that if one of those calls messes up some DMA settings, 
> the other one does too -- just maybe not settings that matter much.

I'm not very familiar with all the DMA mapping / mask code, but AFAIK making
changes to the DMA settings of a child will not influence the parent.

Where as when passing bus->sysdev, then changes are made to a device
which is shared with other devices on the bus, which is why we see
a regression in an USB NIC driver being triggered by the UAS driver
binding to a device (on the same bus).

At least that is my interpretation of this. I bisected the regression
and that pointed at the UAS DMA change and reverting it fixes things,
confirming that I did not make any mistakes during the bisect.

Regards,

Hans