RE: [PATCH v12 5/5] iommu/vt-d: improve ITE fault handling if target device isn't present

Tian, Kevin
2024-01-30T03:28:36Z

> From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2024 10:49 PM
>
> On 2024/1/29 17:06, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >> From: Ethan Zhao<haifeng.zhao@linux.intel.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2024 11:49 AM
> >>
> >> Because surprise removal could happen anytime, e.g. user could request
> safe
> >> removal to EP(endpoint device) via sysfs and brings its link down to do
> >> surprise removal cocurrently. such aggressive cases would cause ATS
> >> invalidation request issued to non-existence target device, then deadly
> >> loop to retry that request after ITE fault triggered in interrupt context.
> >> this patch aims to optimize the ITE handling by checking the target device
> >> presence state to avoid retrying the timeout request blindly, thus avoid
> >> hard lockup or system hang.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao<haifeng.zhao@linux.intel.com>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c
> >> index 814134e9aa5a..2e214b43725c 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c
> >> @@ -1272,6 +1272,7 @@ static int qi_check_fault(struct intel_iommu
> >> *iommu, int index, int wait_index,
> >> {
> >> u32 fault;
> >> int head, tail;
> >> + u64 iqe_err, ite_sid;
> >> struct q_inval *qi = iommu->qi;
> >> int shift = qi_shift(iommu);
> >>
> >> @@ -1316,6 +1317,13 @@ static int qi_check_fault(struct intel_iommu
> >> *iommu, int index, int wait_index,
> >> tail = readl(iommu->reg + DMAR_IQT_REG);
> >> tail = ((tail >> shift) - 1 + QI_LENGTH) % QI_LENGTH;
> >>
> >> + /*
> >> + * SID field is valid only when the ITE field is Set in FSTS_REG
> >> + * see Intel VT-d spec r4.1, section 11.4.9.9
> >> + */
> >> + iqe_err = dmar_readq(iommu->reg + DMAR_IQER_REG);
> >> + ite_sid = DMAR_IQER_REG_ITESID(iqe_err);
> >> +
> >> writel(DMA_FSTS_ITE, iommu->reg + DMAR_FSTS_REG);
> >> pr_info("Invalidation Time-out Error (ITE) cleared\n");
> >>
> >> @@ -1325,6 +1333,16 @@ static int qi_check_fault(struct intel_iommu
> >> *iommu, int index, int wait_index,
> >> head = (head - 2 + QI_LENGTH) % QI_LENGTH;
> >> } while (head != tail);
> >>
> >> + /*
> >> + * If got ITE, we need to check if the sid of ITE is the same as
> >> + * current ATS invalidation target device, if yes, don't try this
> >> + * request anymore if the target device isn't present.
> >> + * 0 value of ite_sid means old VT-d device, no ite_sid value.
> >> + */
> >> + if (pdev && ite_sid && !pci_device_is_present(pdev) &&
> >> + ite_sid == pci_dev_id(pci_physfn(pdev)))
> >> + return -ETIMEDOUT;
> >> +
> > since the hardware already reports source id leading to timeout, can't we
> > just find the pci_dev according to reported ite_sid? this is a slow path
> (either
> > due to device in bad state or removed) hence it's not necessary to add
> more
> > intelligence to pass the pci_dev in, leading to only a partial fix can be
> backported.
> >
> > It's also more future-proof, say if one day the driver allows batching
> invalidation
> > requests for multiple devices then no need to pass in a list of devices.
>
> I have ever thought about this solution and gave up in the end due to
> the locking issue.
>
> A batch of qi requests must be handled in the spin lock critical region
> to enforce that only one batch of requests is submitted at a time.
> Searching pci_dev in this locking region might result in nested locking
> issues, and I haven't found a good solution for this yet.
>

in spin-lock you just get the sid.

searching pci_dev can be done outside of the critical region. anyway
the handling of -EAGAIN is already after spin_unlock.