Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] PCI/ERR: Split the fatal and non-fatal error recovery handling

Ethan Zhao
2020-10-15T01:59:11Z

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 1:06 AM Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> On 10/14/20 8:07 AM, Ethan Zhao wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:00 PM Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
> > <sathyanarayanan.nkuppuswamy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Commit bdb5ac85777d ("PCI/ERR: Handle fatal error recovery")
> >> merged fatal and non-fatal error recovery paths, and also made
> >> recovery code depend on hotplug handler for "remove affected
> >> device + rescan" support. But this change also complicated the
> >> error recovery path and which in turn led to the following
> >> issues.
> >>
> >> 1. We depend on hotplug handler for removing the affected
> >> devices/drivers on DLLSC LINK down event (on DPC event
> >> trigger) and DPC handler for handling the error recovery. Since
> >> both handlers operate on same set of affected devices, it leads
> >> to race condition, which in turn leads to NULL pointer
> >> exceptions or error recovery failures.You can find more details
> >> about this issue in following link.
> >>
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20201007113158.48933-1-haifeng.zhao@intel.com/T/#t
> >>
> >> 2. For non-hotplug capable devices fatal (DPC) error recovery
> >> is currently broken. Current fatal error recovery implementation
> >> relies on PCIe hotplug (pciehp) handler for detaching and
> >> re-enumerating the affected devices/drivers. So when dealing with
> >> non-hotplug capable devices, recovery code does not restore the state
> >> of the affected devices correctly. You can find more details about
> >> this issue in the following links.
> >>
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20200527083130.4137-1-Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com/
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/12115.1588207324@famine/
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/0e6f89cd6b9e4a72293cc90fafe93487d7c2d295.1585000084.git.sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com/
> >>
> >> In order to fix the above two issues, we should stop relying on hotplug
> > Yes, it doesn't rely on hotplug handler to remove and rescan the device,
> > but it couldn't prevent hotplug drivers from doing another replicated
> > removal/rescanning.
> > it doesn't make sense to leave another useless removal/rescanning there.
> > Maybe that's why these two paths were merged to one and made it rely on
> > hotplug.
> No, as per PCIe spec, hotplug and DPC has no functional dependency. Hence
> depending on it to handle some of its recovery function is in-correct and
> would lead to issues in non-hotplug capable platforms (which is true
> currently).
> >
>
> >> + else
> >> + udev = dev->bus->self;
> >> +
> >> + parent = udev->subordinate;
> >> + pci_walk_bus(parent, pci_dev_set_disconnected, NULL);
> >> +
> >> + pci_lock_rescan_remove();
> > Though here you have lock, but hotplug will do another
> > 'pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device()'
> > without merging it with the hotplug driver, you have no way to
> > remove the replicated actions in
> > hotplug handler.
> No, the core operation (remove/add device) is syncronzied and done in
> only one thread. Please check the following flow. Even in hotplug
pci_lock_rescan_remove() is global lock for PCIe, the mal-functional
device's port holds this lock, it prevents the whole system from doing
hot-plug operation.
Though pciehp is not so hot/scalable and performance critical, but there
is per cpu thread to handle hot-plug operation. synchronize all threads
make them walk backwards for scalability.

> handler, before removing the device, it attempts to hold pci_lock_rescan_remove()
> lock. So holding the same lock in DPC handler will syncronize the DPC/hotplug
> handlers. Also if one of the thread (DPC or hotplug) removes/adds the affected devices,
> other thread will not repeat the same action (since the device is already removed/added).
>
> ->pciehp_ist()
> ->pciehp_handle_presence_or_link_change()
> ->pciehp_disable_slot()
> ->__pciehp_disable_slot()
> ->remove_board()
> ->pciehp_unconfigure_device()
> ->pci_lock_rescan_remove()
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ethan
> >> + pci_dev_get(dev);
> >> + list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(pdev, temp, &parent->devices,
> >> + bus_list) {
> >> + pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device(pdev);
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + result = reset_link(udev);
> >> +
> >> + if (dev->hdr_type == PCI_HEADER_TYPE_BRIDGE) {
> >> + /*
> >> + * If the error is reported by a bridge, we think this error
> >> + * is related to the downstream link of the bridge, so we
> >> + * do error recovery on all subordinates of the bridge instead
> >> + * of the bridge and clear the error status of the bridge.
> >> + */
> >> + pci_aer_clear_fatal_status(dev);
> >> + if (pcie_aer_is_native(dev))
> >> + pcie_clear_device_status(dev);
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + if (result == PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED) {
> >> + if (pcie_wait_for_link(udev, true))
> > And another pci_rescan_bus() like in the hotplug handler.
> As I have mentioned before, holding the same lock should make them synchronized
> and not repeat the underlying functionality of pci_rescan_bus() in both threads
> at the same time.
Yes, it blocked them all.

Thanks,
Ethan
> >> + pci_rescan_bus(udev->bus);
> >> + pci_info(dev, "Device recovery from fatal error successful\n");
> >> + } else {
> >> + pci_uevent_ers(dev, PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT);
> >> + pci_info(dev, "Device recovery from fatal error failed\n");
>
> >> --
> >> 2.17.1
> >>
>
> --
> Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
> Linux Kernel Developer