Re: [PATCH] drivers: irqchip: Allocate alignment addr by ITS_BASER.Page_size

From: wangwudi
Date: Mon Jul 18 2022 - 03:36:27 EST


Hi Marc,

在 2022/7/16 17:30, Marc Zyngier 写道:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 08:05:36 +0100,
> wangwudi <wangwudi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The description of the ITS_BASER.Physical_Address field in the ARM GIC spec is as
>> follows:
>> "The address must be aligned to the size specified in the Page Size field."
>> The Page_Size field in ITS_BASER might be RO.
>>
>> Currently, the address is aligned based on the system page_size, not the HW
>> Page_Size field. In some case, this is in contradiction with the spec.
>>
>> For example:
>> ITS_BASER.Page_Size indicate 16K, and kernel page size is 4K.
>> If HW need 4K-size memory, the driver may alloc a 4K aligned address.
>> This has been proven in hardware.
>
> Ah, interesting bug. Thanks for bringing this up. Can you describe how
> this occurs? I suspect you are using indirect tables.
>

Sure. In the system, kernel page size is 4K, and ITS_BASER.Page_Size is 16K.

As you suspected, HW used indirect VPE table and indication supports a small
number of vpeids, like 2-bits vpeid. So that HW requires only less than 4K-
size memory, and 16K aligned base address. But driver alloctes 4K aligend base
address.

>>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: wangwudi <wangwudi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
>> index 5ff09de6c48f..0e25e887d45c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
>> @@ -2310,6 +2310,9 @@ static int its_setup_baser(struct its_node *its, struct its_baser *baser,
>> order = get_order(GITS_BASER_PAGES_MAX * psz);
>> }
>>
>> + if ((psz > PAGE_SIZE) && (PAGE_ORDER_TO_SIZE(order) < psz)) {
>> + order = get_order(psz);
>> + }
>> page = alloc_pages_node(its->numa_node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, order);
>> if (!page)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>
> However, I don't see how you end-up with the incorrect value here.
>
> * No indirect table:
> alloc_its_tables():
> order = get_order(baser->psz);
>
> * Indirect tables:
> alloc_its_tables():
> order = get_order(baser->psz);
> its_parse_indirect_baser():
> new_order = *order;
> new_order = max_t(u32, get_order(esz << ids), new_order);
>
> So in both cases, we should end-up with order >= get_order(psz).
Yes, totally agree.

>
> Clearly, I'm missing a path, but your commit message doesn't make it
> obvious. Can you please enlighten me?
>
My commit is based on the premise:
"alloc_pages_node gives a size-aligend address".
For example, if HW apply for 4K-size memory, then allocated address is 4K
aligned.

> Thanks,
>
> M.
>