Re: [PATCH v1] driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration

Saravana Kannan
2022-05-20T23:50:29Z

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 4:30 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Saravana,
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 03:09:32PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > The deferred probe timer that's used for this currently starts at
> > late_initcall and runs for driver_deferred_probe_timeout seconds. The
> > assumption being that all available drivers would be loaded and
> > registered before the timer expires. This means, the
> > driver_deferred_probe_timeout has to be pretty large for it to cover the
> > worst case. But if we set the default value for it to cover the worst
> > case, it would significantly slow down the average case. For this
> > reason, the default value is set to 0.
> >
> > Also, with CONFIG_MODULES=y and the current default values of
> > driver_deferred_probe_timeout=0 and fw_devlink=on, devices with missing
> > drivers will cause their consumer devices to always defer their probes.
> > This is because device links created by fw_devlink defer the probe even
> > before the consumer driver's probe() is called.
> >
> > Instead of a fixed timeout, if we extend an unexpired deferred probe
> > timer on every successful driver registration, with the expectation more
> > modules would be loaded in the near future, then the default value of
> > driver_deferred_probe_timeout only needs to be as long as the worst case
> > time difference between two consecutive module loads.
> >
> > So let's implement that and set the default value to 10 seconds when
> > CONFIG_MODULES=y.
> >
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
> > Cc: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>
> > Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
> > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
>
> I bisected a boot hang with ARCH=s390 defconfig in QEMU down to this
> change as commit 2b28a1a84a0e ("driver core: Extend deferred probe
> timeout on driver registration") in next-20220520 (bisect log below).
>
> $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=s390 CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu- defconfig bzImage
>
> $ timeout --foreground 15m stdbuf -oL -eL \
> qemu-system-s390x \
> -initrd ... \
> -M s390-ccw-virtio \
> -display none \
> -kernel arch/s390/boot/bzImage \
> -m 512m \
> -nodefaults \
> -serial mon:stdio
> ...
> [ 2.077303] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6
> [ 2.077639] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family
> [ 2.078063] bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
> [ 2.078795] Key type dns_resolver registered
> [ 2.079317] cio: Channel measurement facility initialized using format extended (mode autodetected)
> [ 2.081494] Discipline DIAG cannot be used without z/VM
> [ 260.626363] random: crng init done
> qemu-system-s390x: terminating on signal 15 from pid 3815762 (timeout)
>
> We have a simple rootfs available if necessary:
>
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/boot-utils/raw/bc0d17785eb67f1edd0ee0a134970a807895f741/images/s390/rootfs.cpio.zst
>
> If there is any other information I can provide, please let me know!

Hmm... strange. Can you please try the following command line options
and tell me which of these has the issue and which don't?
1) deferred_probe_timeout=0
2) deferred_probe_timeout=1
3) deferred_probe_timeout=300

That should help me narrow down where the error might be.

Thanks,
Saravana

>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> # bad: [18ecd30af1a8402c162cca1bd58771c0e5be7815] Add linux-next specific files for 20220520
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> # bad: [b232b02bf3c205b13a26dcec08e53baddd8e59ed] driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach
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> # good: [4c32174a24759d5ac6dc42b508fcec2afb8b9602] Documentation: dd: Use ReST lists for return values of driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
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> # bad: [2b28a1a84a0eb3412bad1a2d5cce2bb4addec626] driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration
> git bisect bad 2b28a1a84a0eb3412bad1a2d5cce2bb4addec626
> # first bad commit: [2b28a1a84a0eb3412bad1a2d5cce2bb4addec626] driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration