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

Ethan Zhao
2020-10-15T05:05:25Z

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:04 AM Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> On 10/14/20 6:58 PM, Ethan Zhao wrote:
> > 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
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> >>>> 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).
> >>>
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> > 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.
> It does not prevent the hotplug operation, but it might delay it. Since both
> DPC and hotplug operates on same set of devices, it must be synchronized.
Think about a large system with some PCI domains, every domain has some
ports and devices attached. why DPC and hotplug *must* operate on the
same set of devices from different domains ? if it must be synchronized, why
make the hotplug handlers threadable ?

> > 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.
> DPC events does not happen in high frequency. So I don't think we should
It's holding global lock, once malfunction happens to one device and
it's driver,
the whole system, everyone holds it, would be blocked to work.
> worry about the performance here. Even hotplug handler will hold this lock
> when adding/removing the devices. So adding/removing devices is a serialized
You don't worry about performance, but if there is a requirement needs
more scalable
and reliable hotplug, the effect will be much harder. what to do then ? choose
another OS ?
To be honest, I don't like the global lock/ pci_lock_rescan_remove().

BTW, I didn't try the FATAL errors brute force injection on your
patch, duplicated
removal will work naturally because it was removed ?

Thanks,
Ethan
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> >> --
> >> Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
> >> Linux Kernel Developer
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> Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
> Linux Kernel Developer