[PATCH v2] powerpc/pseries: Don't enforce MSI affinity with kdump

[PATCH v2] powerpc/pseries: Don't enforce MSI affinity with kdump

[Greg Kurz]

Depending on the number of online CPUs in the original kernel, it is
likely for CPU #0 to be offline in a kdump kernel. The associated IRQs
in the affinity mappings provided by irq_create_affinity_masks() are
thus not started by irq_startup(), as per-design with managed IRQs.

This can be a problem with multi-queue block devices driven by blk-mq :
such a non-started IRQ is very likely paired with the single queue
enforced by blk-mq during kdump (see blk_mq_alloc_tag_set()). This
causes the device to remain silent and likely hangs the guest at
some point.

This is a regression caused by commit 9ea69a55b3b9 ("powerpc/pseries:
Pass MSI affinity to irq_create_mapping()"). Note that this only happens
with the XIVE interrupt controller because XICS has a workaround to bypass
affinity, which is activated during kdump with the "noirqdistrib" kernel
parameter.

The issue comes from a combination of factors:
- discrepancy between the number of queues detected by the multi-queue
  block driver, that was used to create the MSI vectors, and the single
  queue mode enforced later on by blk-mq because of kdump (i.e. keeping
  all queues fixes the issue)
- CPU#0 offline (i.e. kdump always succeed with CPU#0)

Given that I couldn't reproduce on x86, which seems to always have CPU#0
online even during kdump, I'm not sure where this should be fixed. Hence
going for another approach : fine-grained affinity is for performance
and we don't really care about that during kdump. Simply revert to the
previous working behavior of ignoring affinity masks in this case only.

Fixes: 9ea69a55b3b9 ("powerpc/pseries: Pass MSI affinity to irq_create_mapping()")
Cc: lvivier@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
---

v2: - added missing #include <linux/crash_dump.h>

 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
index b3ac2455faad..637300330507 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  * Copyright 2006-2007 Michael Ellerman, IBM Corp.
  */
 
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/irq.h>
 #include <linux/msi.h>
@@ -458,8 +459,28 @@ static int rtas_setup_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *pdev, int nvec_in, int type)
 			return hwirq;
 		}
 
-		virq = irq_create_mapping_affinity(NULL, hwirq,
-						   entry->affinity);
+		/*
+		 * Depending on the number of online CPUs in the original
+		 * kernel, it is likely for CPU #0 to be offline in a kdump
+		 * kernel. The associated IRQs in the affinity mappings
+		 * provided by irq_create_affinity_masks() are thus not
+		 * started by irq_startup(), as per-design for managed IRQs.
+		 * This can be a problem with multi-queue block devices driven
+		 * by blk-mq : such a non-started IRQ is very likely paired
+		 * with the single queue enforced by blk-mq during kdump (see
+		 * blk_mq_alloc_tag_set()). This causes the device to remain
+		 * silent and likely hangs the guest at some point.
+		 *
+		 * We don't really care for fine-grained affinity when doing
+		 * kdump actually : simply ignore the pre-computed affinity
+		 * masks in this case and let the default mask with all CPUs
+		 * be used when creating the IRQ mappings.
+		 */
+		if (is_kdump_kernel())
+			virq = irq_create_mapping(NULL, hwirq);
+		else
+			virq = irq_create_mapping_affinity(NULL, hwirq,
+							   entry->affinity);
 
 		if (!virq) {
 			pr_debug("rtas_msi: Failed mapping hwirq %d\n", hwirq);
-- 
2.26.2

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/pseries: Don't enforce MSI affinity with kdump

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:45:06 +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Depending on the number of online CPUs in the original kernel, it is
> likely for CPU #0 to be offline in a kdump kernel. The associated IRQs
> in the affinity mappings provided by irq_create_affinity_masks() are
> thus not started by irq_startup(), as per-design with managed IRQs.
> 
> This can be a problem with multi-queue block devices driven by blk-mq :
> such a non-started IRQ is very likely paired with the single queue
> enforced by blk-mq during kdump (see blk_mq_alloc_tag_set()). This
> causes the device to remain silent and likely hangs the guest at
> some point.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/fixes.

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      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f9619d5e5174867536b7e558683bc4408eab833f

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