Re: [PATCH v15,RESEND 22/23] PCI: starfive: Offload the NVMe timeout workaround to host drivers.

Palmer Dabbelt
2024-03-04T18:08:13Z

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 07:08:43 PST (-0800), lpieralisi@kernel.org wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 06:35:21PM +0800, Minda Chen wrote:
>> From: Kevin Xie <kevin.xie@starfivetech.com>
>>
>> As the Starfive JH7110 hardware can't keep two inbound post write in
>> order all the time, such as MSI messages and NVMe completions. If the
>> NVMe completion update later than the MSI, an NVMe IRQ handle will miss.
>
> Please explain what the problem is and what "NVMe completions" means
> given that you are talking about posted writes.
>
> If you have a link to an erratum write-up it would certainly help.

I think we really need to see that errata document. Our formal memory
model doesn't account for device interactions so it's possible there's
just some arch fence we can make stronger in order to get things ordered
again -- we've had similar problems with some other RISC-V chips, and
while it ends up being slow at least it's correct.

> This looks completely broken to me, if the controller can't guarantee
> PCIe transactions ordering it is toast, there is not even a point
> considering mainline merging.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's the case. Without some
concrete ISA mechanisms here we're sort of just stuck hoping the SOC
vendors do the right thing, which is always terrifying.

I'm not really a PCIe person so this is all a bit vague, but IIRC we had
a bunch of possible PCIe ordering violations in the SiFive memory system
back when I was there and we never really got a scheme for making sure
things were correct.

So I think we really do need to see that errata document to know what's
possible here. Folks have been able to come up with clever solutions to
these problems before, maybe we'll get lucky again.

>> As a workaround, we will wait a while before going to the generic
>> handle here.
>>
>> Verified with NVMe SSD, USB SSD, R8169 NIC.
>> The performance are stable and even higher after this patch.
>
> I assume this is a joke even though it does not make me laugh.

So you're new to RISC-V, then? It gets way worse than this ;)

> Thanks,
> Lorenzo
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Xie <kevin.xie@starfivetech.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Minda Chen <minda.chen@starfivetech.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>> drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h | 1 +
>> drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c | 1 +
>> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c
>> index a18923d7cea6..9e077ddf45c0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c
>> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>> #include <linux/msi.h>
>> #include <linux/pci_regs.h>
>> #include <linux/pci-ecam.h>
>> +#include <linux/delay.h>
>>
>> #include "pcie-plda.h"
>>
>> @@ -44,6 +45,17 @@ static void plda_handle_msi(struct irq_desc *desc)
>> bridge_base_addr + ISTATUS_LOCAL);
>> status = readl_relaxed(bridge_base_addr + ISTATUS_MSI);
>> for_each_set_bit(bit, &status, msi->num_vectors) {
>> + /*
>> + * As the Starfive JH7110 hardware can't keep two
>> + * inbound post write in order all the time, such as
>> + * MSI messages and NVMe completions.
>> + * If the NVMe completion update later than the MSI,
>> + * an NVMe IRQ handle will miss.
>> + * As a workaround, we will wait a while before
>> + * going to the generic handle here.
>> + */
>> + if (port->msi_quirk_delay_us)
>> + udelay(port->msi_quirk_delay_us);
>> ret = generic_handle_domain_irq(msi->dev_domain, bit);
>> if (ret)
>> dev_err_ratelimited(dev, "bad MSI IRQ %d\n",
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h
>> index 04e385758a2f..feccf285dfe8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h
>> @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ struct plda_pcie_rp {
>> int msi_irq;
>> int intx_irq;
>> int num_events;
>> + u16 msi_quirk_delay_us;
>> };
>>
>> struct plda_event {
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
>> index 9bb9f0e29565..5cfc30572b7f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
>> @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ static int starfive_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>
>> plda->host_ops = &sf_host_ops;
>> plda->num_events = PLDA_MAX_EVENT_NUM;
>> + plda->msi_quirk_delay_us = 1;
>> /* mask doorbell event */
>> plda->events_bitmap = GENMASK(PLDA_INT_EVENT_NUM - 1, 0)
>> & ~BIT(PLDA_AXI_DOORBELL)
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
>>
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