Re: [PATCH] Reset PCIe devices to stop ongoing DMA

[Takao Indoh]

(2013/04/26 3:01), Don Dutile wrote:
> On 04/25/2013 01:11 AM, Takao Indoh wrote:
>> (2013/04/25 4:59), Don Dutile wrote:
>>> On 04/24/2013 12:58 AM, Takao Indoh wrote:
>>>> This patch resets PCIe devices on boot to stop ongoing DMA. When
>>>> "pci=pcie_reset_devices" is specified, a hot reset is triggered on each
>>>> PCIe root port and downstream port to reset its downstream endpoint.
>>>>
>>>> Problem:
>>>> This patch solves the problem that kdump can fail when intel_iommu=on is
>>>> specified. When intel_iommu=on is specified, many dma-remapping errors
>>>> occur in second kernel and it causes problems like driver error or PCI
>>>> SERR, at last kdump fails. This problem is caused as follows.
>>>> 1) Devices are working on first kernel.
>>>> 2) Switch to second kernel(kdump kernel). The devices are still working
>>>>       and its DMA continues during this switch.
>>>> 3) iommu is initialized during second kernel boot and ongoing DMA causes
>>>>       dma-remapping errors.
>>>>
>>>> Solution:
>>>> All DMA transactions have to be stopped before iommu is initialized. By
>>>> this patch devices are reset and in-flight DMA is stopped before
>>>> pci_iommu_init.
>>>>
>>>> To invoke hot reset on an endpoint, its upstream link need to be reset.
>>>> reset_pcie_devices() is called from fs_initcall_sync, and it finds root
>>>> port/downstream port whose child is PCIe endpoint, and then reset link
>>>> between them. If the endpoint is VGA device, it is skipped because the
>>>> monitor blacks out if VGA controller is reset.
>>>>
>>> Couple questions wrt VGA device:
>>> (1) Many graphics devices are multi-function, one function being VGA;
>>>        is the VGA always function 0, so this scan sees it first&  doesn't
>>>        do a reset on that PCIe link?  if the VGA is not function 0, won't
>>>        this logic break (will reset b/c function 0 is non-VGA graphics) ?
>>
>> VGA is not reset irrespective of its function number. The logic of this
>> patch is:
>>
>> for_each_pci_dev(dev) {
>>       if (dev is not PCIe)
>>          continue;
>>       if (dev is not root port/downstream port) ---(1)
>>          continue;
>>       list_for_each_entry(child,&dev->subordinate->devices, bus_list) {
>>           if (child is upstream port or bridge or VGA) ---(2)
>>               continue;
>>       }
>>       do_reset_its_child(dev);
>> }
>>
>> Therefore VGA itself is skipped by (1), and upstream device(root port or
>> downstream port) of VGA is also skipped by (2).
>>
>>
>>> (2) I'm hearing VGA will soon not be the a required console; this logic
>>>        assumes it is, and why it isn't blanked.
>>>        Q: Should the filter be based on a device having a device-class of display ?
>>
>> I want to avoid the situation that user's monitor blacks out and user
>> cannot know what's going on. That's reason why I introduced the logic to
>> skip VGA. As far as I tested the logic based on device-class works well,
> sorry, I read your description, which said VGA, but your are filtering on display class,
> which includes non-VGA as well. So, all set ... but large, (x16) non-VGA display devices
> are probably one of the most aggressive DMA engines on a system.... and will grow as
> asymmetric processing using GPUs gets architected into a device-agnostic manner.
> So, this may work well for servers, which is the primary consumer/user of this feature,
> and they typically have built-in graphics that are generally used in simple VGA mode,
> so this may be sufficient for now.
>   
> 
>> but I would appreciate it if there are better ways.
>>
> You probably don't want to hear it but....
> a) only turn off cmd-reg master enable bit
> b) only do reset based on a list of devices known not to
>     obey their cmd-reg master enable bit, and only do reset to those devices.
> But, given the testing you've done so far, this optional (need cmdline) feature,
> let's start here.
> 
>>>
>>>> Actually this is v8 patch but quite different from v7 and it's been so
>>>> long since previous post, so I start over again.
>>> Thanks for this re-start.  I need to continue reviewing the rest.
>>
>> Thank you for your review!
>>
>>>
>>> Q: Why not force IOMMU off when re-booting a kexec kernel to perform a crash
>>>       dump?  After the crash dump, the system is rebooting to previous (iommu=on) setting.
>>>       That logic, along w/your previous patch to disable the IOMMU if iommu=off
>>>       is set, would remove this (relatively slow) PCI init sequencing ?
>>
>> To force iommu off, all ongoing DMA have to be stopped before that since
>> they are accessing the device address, not physical address. If we disable
>> iommu without stopping in-flihgt DMA, devices access invalid memory area
>> and it causes memory corruption or PCI-SERR due to DMA error.
> Right, that's a 'duh' on my part.
> I thought 'disable iommu' == 'block all dma' and it just turns it off &
> let's the ongoing DMA run...
> Please ignore this question... sigh.
> 
>>
>> So, whether we use iommu or not in second kernel, we have to stop DMA in
>> second kernel if iommu is used in first kernel.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Takao Indoh
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Previous post:
>>>> [PATCH v7 0/5] Reset PCIe devices to address DMA problem on kdump
>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/26/814
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh<indou.takao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>     Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 +
>>>>     drivers/pci/pci.c                   |  103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>     2 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>>>> index 4609e81..2a31ade 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>>>> @@ -2250,6 +2250,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
>>>>                     any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
>>>>                     reduced performance.  This also guarantees
>>>>                     that hot-added devices will work.
>>>> +        pcie_reset_devices    Reset PCIe endpoint on boot by hot
>>>> +                reset
>>>>             cbiosize=nn[KMG]    The fixed amount of bus space which is
>>>>                     reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
>>>>                     The default value is 256 bytes.
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>>>> index b099e00..42385c9 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>>>> @@ -3878,6 +3878,107 @@ void __weak pci_fixup_cardbus(struct pci_bus *bus)
>>>>     }
>>>>     EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_fixup_cardbus);
>>>>
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * Return true if dev is PCIe root port or downstream port whose child is PCIe
>>>> + * endpoint except VGA device.
>>>> + */
>>>> +static int __init need_reset(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct pci_bus *subordinate;
>>>> +    struct pci_dev *child;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (!pci_is_pcie(dev) || !dev->subordinate ||
>>>> +        list_empty(&dev->subordinate->devices) ||
>>>> +        ((pci_pcie_type(dev) != PCI_EXP_TYPE_ROOT_PORT)&&
>>>> +         (pci_pcie_type(dev) != PCI_EXP_TYPE_DOWNSTREAM)))
>>>> +        return 0;
>>>> +
>>>> +    subordinate = dev->subordinate;
>>>> +    list_for_each_entry(child,&subordinate->devices, bus_list) {
>>>> +        if ((pci_pcie_type(child) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_UPSTREAM) ||
>>>> +            (pci_pcie_type(child) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCI_BRIDGE) ||
>>>> +            ((child->class>>   16) == PCI_BASE_CLASS_DISPLAY))
>>>> +            /* Don't reset switch, bridge, VGA device */
>>>> +            return 0;
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>> +    return 1;
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static void __init save_config(struct pci_dev *dev)
> This should be renamed.  it implies it is saving the config of the pdev passed in,
> when in reality, it is saving the config of all the devices attached to this pdev.
> i.e., save_downstream_configs()
> 
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct pci_bus *subordinate;
>>>> +    struct pci_dev *child;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (!need_reset(dev))
>>>> +        return;
>>>> +
>>>> +    subordinate = dev->subordinate;
>>>> +    list_for_each_entry(child,&subordinate->devices, bus_list) {
>>>> +        dev_info(&child->dev, "save state\n");
>>>> +        pci_save_state(child);
>>>> +    }
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static void __init restore_config(struct pci_dev *dev)
> inverse of above: restore_downstream_configs()
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct pci_bus *subordinate;
>>>> +    struct pci_dev *child;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (!need_reset(dev))
>>>> +        return;
>>>> +
>>>> +    subordinate = dev->subordinate;
>>>> +    list_for_each_entry(child,&subordinate->devices, bus_list) {
>>>> +        dev_info(&child->dev, "restore state\n");
>>>> +        pci_restore_state(child);
>>>> +    }
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static void __init do_device_reset(struct pci_dev *dev)
> do_downstream_device_reset() -- it's not resetting this pdev,
> but the pdev's of the devices attached to it.
> 
>>>> +{
>>>> +    u16 ctrl;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (!need_reset(dev))
>>>> +        return;
>>>> +
>>>> +    dev_info(&dev->dev, "Reset Secondary bus\n");
>>>> +
>>>> +    /* Assert Secondary Bus Reset */
>>>> +    pci_read_config_word(dev, PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL,&ctrl);
>>>> +    ctrl |= PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_BUS_RESET;
>>>> +    pci_write_config_word(dev, PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL, ctrl);
>>>> +
>>>> +    msleep(2);
>>>> +
> This works well for x86, which uses ioport registers to access
> these <256-offset registers, b/c the write() function can't return
> until the write is actually completed, but for a non-x86 system,
> with fully mmconf'd PCI space, a write() may still be a write & run
> (sitting in CPU write-merge) buffer, so if you need a full 2ms,
> you ought to do another read_config() to the device, to flush the write,
> before starting the msleep(2) clock.
> 
>>>> +    /* De-assert Secondary Bus Reset */
>>>> +    ctrl&= ~PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_BUS_RESET;
>>>> +    pci_write_config_word(dev, PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL, ctrl);
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static int __initdata pcie_reset_devices;
>>>> +static int __init reset_pcie_devices(void)
> this should be reset_pcie_endpoints() ... it's not resetting all pcie devices
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct pci_dev *dev = NULL;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (!pcie_reset_devices)
>>>> +        return 0;
>>>> +
>>>> +    for_each_pci_dev(dev)
>>>> +        save_config(dev);
>>>> +
>>>> +    for_each_pci_dev(dev)
>>>> +        do_device_reset(dev);
>>>> +
>>>> +    msleep(1000);
>>>> +
>>>> +    for_each_pci_dev(dev)
>>>> +        restore_config(dev);
>>>> +
> My apologies if past thread covered this sequence...
> Why three loops through all PCIe devices on the system?
> why not have the first for-each-pci-dev() loop filter devices
> to be reset, and save_config those pdev's,
> return a list of saved_pdev's;  feed that list into the do_device_reset();
> then mpsleep(), then restore the list.
> in fact, once you create a link list of pdev's to reset,
> just loop that list doing save, then reset; rtn the list, do msleep(),
> then restore the config of pdevs in the list.
> Otherwise, doing much more traversing than what's needed.
> Doing a great deal more config-saving then needed right now as well
> (saving all non-endpt devices that aren't reset).

One question, do you mean we should have two lists? For example,

LIST_HEAD(pci_reset_list); /* pdev list to reset */
LIST_HEAD(pci_saved_list); /* pdev list to save/restore config */

Or simply making one list and just loop it like this:

    LIST_HEAD(pdev_list);

    for_each_pci_dev(pdev)
        if (need_reset(pdev))
            /* Add pdev to pdev_list */

    list_for_each_entry(pdev, &pdev_list)
        save_downstream_configs(pdev);

    list_for_each_entry(pdev, &pdev_list)
        do_downstream_device_reset(pdev);

    list_for_each_entry(pdev, &pdev_list)
        restore_downstream_configs(pdev);

Thanks,
Takao Indoh

> 
>>>> +    return 0;
>>>> +}
>>>> +fs_initcall_sync(reset_pcie_devices);
>>>> +
>>>>     static int __init pci_setup(char *str)
>>>>     {
>>>>         while (str) {
>>>> @@ -3920,6 +4021,8 @@ static int __init pci_setup(char *str)
>>>>                     pcie_bus_config = PCIE_BUS_PEER2PEER;
>>>>                 } else if (!strncmp(str, "pcie_scan_all", 13)) {
>>>>                     pci_add_flags(PCI_SCAN_ALL_PCIE_DEVS);
>>>> +            } else if (!strncmp(str, "pcie_reset_devices", 18)) {
> pcie_reset_endpoint_devices
>>>> +                pcie_reset_devices = 1;
> pcie_reset_endpoint_devices
>>>>                 } else {
>>>>                     printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n",
>>>>                             str);
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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