Re: [RFC PATCH v4] ACPI: Move sdei_init and ghes_init ahead to handle platform errors earlier

Shuai Xue
2021-12-02T12:52:33Z

Hi, Bjron,

By any chance, could you help review this patch? Any comment are welcomed.

Regards,
Shuai

On 2021/11/26 PM3:04, Shuai Xue wrote:
> On an ACPI system, ACPI is initialised very early from a subsys_initcall(),
> while SDEI is not ready until a subsys_initcall_sync().
>
> The SDEI driver provides functions (e.g. apei_sdei_register_ghes,
> apei_sdei_unregister_ghes) to register or unregister event callback for
> dispatcher in firmware. When the GHES driver probing, it registers the
> corresponding callback according to the notification type specified by
> GHES. If the GHES notification type is SDEI, the GHES driver will call
> apei_sdei_register_ghes to register event call.
>
> When the firmware emits an event, it migrates the handling of the event
> into the kernel at the registered entry-point __sdei_asm_handler. And
> finally, the kernel will call the registered event callback and return
> status_code to indicate the status of event handling. SDEI_EV_FAILED
> indicates that the kernel failed to handle the event.
>
> Consequently, when an error occurs during kernel booting, the kernel is
> unable to handle and report errors until the GHES driver is initialized by
> device_initcall(), in which the event callback is registered. All errors
> that occurred before GHES initialization are missed and there is no chance
> to report and find them again.
>
> From commit e147133a42cb ("ACPI / APEI: Make hest.c manage the estatus
> memory pool") was merged, ghes_init() relies on acpi_hest_init() to manage
> the estatus memory pool. On the other hand, ghes_init() relies on
> sdei_init() to detect the SDEI version and the framework for registering
> and unregistering events. By the way, I don't figure out why acpi_hest_init
> is called in acpi_pci_root_init, it don't rely on any other thing. May it
> could be moved further, following acpi_iort_init in acpi_init.
>
> sdei_init() relies on ACPI table which is initialized subsys_initcall():
> acpi_init(), acpi_bus_init(), acpi_load_tables(), acpi_tb_laod_namespace().
> May it should be also moved further, after acpi_load_tables.
>
> In this patch, move sdei_init and ghes_init as far ahead as possible, right
> after acpi_hest_init().
>
> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> drivers/acpi/pci_root.c | 5 ++++-
> drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c | 13 ++-----------
> include/acpi/apei.h | 2 ++
> include/linux/arm_sdei.h | 2 ++
> 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index 0c8330ed1ffd..b11e46fb4b3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -1457,27 +1457,26 @@ static struct platform_driver ghes_platform_driver = {
> .remove = ghes_remove,
> };
>
> -static int __init ghes_init(void)
> +void __init ghes_init(void)
> {
> int rc;
>
> if (acpi_disabled)
> - return -ENODEV;
> + return;
>
> switch (hest_disable) {
> case HEST_NOT_FOUND:
> - return -ENODEV;
> + pr_info(GHES_PFX "HEST is not found!\n");
> + return;
> case HEST_DISABLED:
> pr_info(GHES_PFX "HEST is not enabled!\n");
> - return -EINVAL;
> + return;
> default:
> break;
> }
>
> - if (ghes_disable) {
> + if (ghes_disable)
> pr_info(GHES_PFX "GHES is not enabled!\n");
> - return -EINVAL;
> - }
>
> ghes_nmi_init_cxt();
>
> @@ -1495,8 +1494,7 @@ static int __init ghes_init(void)
> else
> pr_info(GHES_PFX "Failed to enable APEI firmware first mode.\n");
>
> - return 0;
> + return;
> err:
> - return rc;
> + ghes_disable = 1;
> }
> -device_initcall(ghes_init);
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c b/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> index ab2f7dfb0c44..1260bb556184 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
> #include <linux/dmi.h>
> #include <linux/platform_data/x86/apple.h>
> #include <acpi/apei.h> /* for acpi_hest_init() */
> -
> +#include <linux/arm_sdei.h> /* for sdei_init() */
> #include "internal.h"
>
> #define ACPI_PCI_ROOT_CLASS "pci_bridge"
> @@ -946,6 +946,9 @@ struct pci_bus *acpi_pci_root_create(struct acpi_pci_root *root,
> void __init acpi_pci_root_init(void)
> {
> acpi_hest_init();
> + sdei_init();
> + ghes_init();
> +
> if (acpi_pci_disabled)
> return;
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c
> index a7e762c352f9..1e1a51510e83 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c
> @@ -1059,14 +1059,14 @@ static bool __init sdei_present_acpi(void)
> return true;
> }
>
> -static int __init sdei_init(void)
> +void __init sdei_init(void)
> {
> struct platform_device *pdev;
> int ret;
>
> ret = platform_driver_register(&sdei_driver);
> if (ret || !sdei_present_acpi())
> - return ret;
> + return;
>
> pdev = platform_device_register_simple(sdei_driver.driver.name,
> 0, NULL, 0);
> @@ -1076,17 +1076,8 @@ static int __init sdei_init(void)
> pr_info("Failed to register ACPI:SDEI platform device %d\n",
> ret);
> }
> -
> - return ret;
> }
>
> -/*
> - * On an ACPI system SDEI needs to be ready before HEST:GHES tries to register
> - * its events. ACPI is initialised from a subsys_initcall(), GHES is initialised
> - * by device_initcall(). We want to be called in the middle.
> - */
> -subsys_initcall_sync(sdei_init);
> -
> int sdei_event_handler(struct pt_regs *regs,
> struct sdei_registered_event *arg)
> {
> diff --git a/include/acpi/apei.h b/include/acpi/apei.h
> index ece0a8af2bae..7dbd6363fda7 100644
> --- a/include/acpi/apei.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/apei.h
> @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ extern int hest_disable;
> extern int erst_disable;
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES
> extern bool ghes_disable;
> +void __init ghes_init(void);
> #else
> #define ghes_disable 1
> +static inline void ghes_init(void) { return; }
> #endif
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI
> diff --git a/include/linux/arm_sdei.h b/include/linux/arm_sdei.h
> index 0a241c5c911d..9c987188b692 100644
> --- a/include/linux/arm_sdei.h
> +++ b/include/linux/arm_sdei.h
> @@ -46,9 +46,11 @@ int sdei_unregister_ghes(struct ghes *ghes);
> /* For use by arch code when CPU hotplug notifiers are not appropriate. */
> int sdei_mask_local_cpu(void);
> int sdei_unmask_local_cpu(void);
> +void __init sdei_init(void);
> #else
> static inline int sdei_mask_local_cpu(void) { return 0; }
> static inline int sdei_unmask_local_cpu(void) { return 0; }
> +static inline void sdei_init(void) { return ; }
> #endif /* CONFIG_ARM_SDE_INTERFACE */