Re: [PATCH] Allocate DMAR fault interrupts locally

[Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Dimitri,

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:38:59 -0500, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
wrote:

> Thomas!
> 
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:18:37PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Dimitri!
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 29 2024 at 14:07, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> >   
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static int __init assign_dmar_vectors(void)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct work_struct irq_remap_work;
> > > +	int nid;
> > > +
> > > +	INIT_WORK(&irq_remap_work,
> > > irq_remap_enable_fault_handling_thr);
> > > +	cpus_read_lock();
> > > +	for_each_online_node(nid) {
> > > +		/* Boot cpu dmar vectors are assigned before the
> > > rest */
> > > +		if (nid == cpu_to_node(get_boot_cpu_id()))
> > > +			continue;
> > > +		schedule_work_on(cpumask_first(cpumask_of_node(nid)),
> > > +				 &irq_remap_work);
> > > +		flush_work(&irq_remap_work);
> > > +	}
> > > +	cpus_read_unlock();
> > > +	return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +arch_initcall(assign_dmar_vectors);  
> > 
> > Stray newline before arch_initcall(), but that's not the problem.
> > 
> > The real problems are:
> > 
> >  1) This approach only works when _ALL_ APs have been brought up during
> >     boot. With 'maxcpus=N' on the command line this will fail to enable
> >     fault handling when the APs which have not been brought up initially
> >     are onlined later on.
> > 
> >     This might be working in practice because intel_iommu_init() will
> >     enable the interrupts later on via init_dmars() unconditionally, but
> >     that's far from correct because IRQ_REMAP does not depend on
> >     INTEL_IOMMU.
> > 
> >  2) It leaves a gap where the reporting is not working between bringing
> >     up the APs during boot and this initcall. Mostly theoretical, but
> >     that does not make it more correct either.
> > 
> > What you really want is a cpu hotplug state in the CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN
> > space which enables the interrupt for the node _before_ the first AP of
> > the node is brought up. That will solve the problem nicely w/o any of
> > the above issues.
> >  
> 
> Initially this sounds like a good approach.  As things currently stand,
> however, there are (at least) several problems with attempting to
> allocate interrupts on cpus that are not running yet via the existing
> dmar_set_interrupt path.
> 
> - The code relies on node_to_cpumask_map (cpumask_of_node()), which has
> been allocated, but not populated at the CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN stage.
> 
> - The irq_matrix cpumaps do not indicate being online or initialized yet,
> except for the boot cpu instance, of course.
> 
> So things still revert to boot cpu allocation, until we exhaust the
> vectors.
> 
> Of course, running the dmar_set_interrupt code from a CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN
> state does work (although I believe there is a concurrency issue that
> could show up with the current dmar_set_interrupt path).
> 
> So the code seems to have been designed based on the assumption that it
> will be run on an already active (though not necessarily fully onlined?)
> cpu.  To make this work, any code based on that assumption would need to
> be fixed.  Otherwise, a different approach is needed.
This may not be pretty but since DMAR fault is for unrecoverable faults,
they are rare and infrequent, should never happen on a healthy system. Can
we share one BSP vector for all DMARs? i.e. let dmar_fault() handler search
for the offending DMAR for fault reasons.


Thanks,

Jacob