Re: [PATCH] efi: arm: defer probe of PCIe backed efifb on DT systems

From: Saravana Kannan
Date: Thu Nov 28 2019 - 14:29:34 EST


On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:30 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The new of_devlink support breaks PCIe probing on ARM platforms booting
> via UEFI if the firmware exposes a EFI framebuffer that is backed by a
> PCI device.

Thanks for testing with of_devlink enabled!

> The reason is that the probing order gets reversed,
> resulting in a resource conflict on the framebuffer memory window when
> the PCIe probes last, causing it to give up entirely.

Just so I understand it clearly, the probe order reversal is only
between this efi-framebuffer device and the PCIe device right? Not all
PCI devices or something like that, right? Do you have any info on
what dependency causes this reversal? Just curious.

> Given that we rely on PCI quirks to deal with EFI framebuffers that get
> moved around in memory, we cannot simply drop the memory reservation, so
> instead, let's use the device link infrastructure to register this
> dependency, and force the probing to occur in the expected order.
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c
> index 311cd349a862..617226d50774 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c
> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
> #include <linux/memblock.h>
> #include <linux/mm_types.h>
> #include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/of_address.h>
> #include <linux/of_fdt.h>
> #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> #include <linux/screen_info.h>
> @@ -267,15 +268,70 @@ void __init efi_init(void)
> efi_memmap_unmap();
> }
>
> +static bool __init efifb_overlaps_pci_range(const struct of_pci_range *range)
> +{
> + u64 fb_base = screen_info.lfb_base;
> +
> + if (screen_info.capabilities & VIDEO_CAPABILITY_64BIT_BASE)
> + fb_base |= (u64)(unsigned long)screen_info.ext_lfb_base << 32;
> +
> + return fb_base >= range->cpu_addr &&
> + fb_base < (range->cpu_addr + range->size);
> +}
> +
> static int __init register_gop_device(void)
> {
> - void *pd;
> + struct platform_device *pd;
> + struct device_node *np;
> + bool found = false;
> + int err;
>
> if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_EFI)
> return 0;
>
> - pd = platform_device_register_data(NULL, "efi-framebuffer", 0,
> - &screen_info, sizeof(screen_info));
> - return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(pd);
> + pd = platform_device_alloc("efi-framebuffer", 0);
> + if (!pd)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + err = platform_device_add_data(pd, &screen_info, sizeof(screen_info));
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + /*
> + * If the efifb framebuffer is backed by a PCI graphics controller, we
> + * have to ensure that this relation is expressed using a device link
> + * when running in DT mode, or the probe order may be reversed,
> + * resulting in a resource reservation conflict on the memory window
> + * that the efifb framebuffer steals from the PCIe host bridge.
> + */
> + for_each_node_by_type(np, "pci") {
> + struct of_pci_range_parser parser;
> + struct of_pci_range range;
> + struct device *sup_dev;
> +
> + if (found) {
> + of_node_put(np);
> + break;
> + }

It looks like you are doing this here because you can't break out of
two loops when you set found = true. Is that right? If so, I think
doing this at the end of the loop would make it more obvious on what's
going on.

> +
> + err = of_pci_range_parser_init(&parser, np);
> + if (err) {
> + pr_warn("of_pci_range_parser_init() failed: %d\n", err);
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> + sup_dev = get_dev_from_fwnode(&np->fwnode);
> +
> + for_each_of_pci_range(&parser, &range) {
> + if (efifb_overlaps_pci_range(&range)) {
> + found = true;
> + if (!device_link_add(&pd->dev, sup_dev, 0))
> + pr_warn("device_link_add() failed\n");

I think dev_warn(&pd->dev,...) might make the message more useful.
Otherwise, it's so confusing.

> + break;
> + }
> + }
> + put_device(sup_dev);

Can't you do the if (found) here? Another option is to simply do a
"goto out;" at the end of the if block where you set found = true.

> + }
> + return platform_device_add(pd);
> }
> -subsys_initcall(register_gop_device);
> +device_initcall(register_gop_device);

Looks like you are doing this so that this efi-framebuffer device gets
added after the PCIe device? So that device_add_link() succeeds?

I'm wondering if it would be better to implement this as a
fwnode_operations.add_links(). Since this efi-framebuffer device won't have any
fwnode, you can create your own fwnode and implement the add_links()
property. Not a strong opinion on this, but some food for thought.

Thanks,
Saravana