Re: [PATCHv4 1/2] iommu/vt-d: Ratelimit each dmar fault printing

Dmitry Safonov
2018-05-02T02:22:29Z

Hi Joerg,

is there anything I may do about those two patches?
In 2/2 I've limited loop cnt as discussed in v3.
This one solves softlockup for us, might be useful.

On Sat, 2018-03-31 at 01:33 +0100, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> There is a ratelimit for printing, but it's incremented each time the
> cpu recives dmar fault interrupt. While one interrupt may signal
> about
> *many* faults.
> So, measuring the impact it turns out that reading/clearing one fault
> takes < 1 usec, and printing info about the fault takes ~170 msec.
>
> Having in mind that maximum number of fault recording registers per
> remapping hardware unit is 256.. IRQ handler may run for (170*256)
> msec.
> And as fault-serving loop runs without a time limit, during servicing
> new faults may occur..
>
> Ratelimit each fault printing rather than each irq printing.
>
> Fixes: commit c43fce4eebae ("iommu/vt-d: Ratelimit fault handler")
>
> BUG: spinlock lockup suspected on CPU#0, CliShell/9903
> lock: 0xffffffff81a47440, .magic: dead4ead, .owner:
> kworker/u16:2/8915, .owner_cpu: 6
> CPU: 0 PID: 9903 Comm: CliShell
> Call Trace:$\n'
> [..] dump_stack+0x65/0x83$\n'
> [..] spin_dump+0x8f/0x94$\n'
> [..] do_raw_spin_lock+0x123/0x170$\n'
> [..] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x32/0x3a$\n'
> [..] uart_chars_in_buffer+0x20/0x4d$\n'
> [..] tty_chars_in_buffer+0x18/0x1d$\n'
> [..] n_tty_poll+0x1cb/0x1f2$\n'
> [..] tty_poll+0x5e/0x76$\n'
> [..] do_select+0x363/0x629$\n'
> [..] compat_core_sys_select+0x19e/0x239$\n'
> [..] compat_SyS_select+0x98/0xc0$\n'
> [..] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x25$\n'
> [..]
> NMI backtrace for cpu 6
> CPU: 6 PID: 8915 Comm: kworker/u16:2
> Workqueue: dmar_fault dmar_fault_work
> Call Trace:$\n'
> [..] wait_for_xmitr+0x26/0x8f$\n'
> [..] serial8250_console_putchar+0x1c/0x2c$\n'
> [..] uart_console_write+0x40/0x4b$\n'
> [..] serial8250_console_write+0xe6/0x13f$\n'
> [..] call_console_drivers.constprop.13+0xce/0x103$\n'
> [..] console_unlock+0x1f8/0x39b$\n'
> [..] vprintk_emit+0x39e/0x3e6$\n'
> [..] printk+0x4d/0x4f$\n'
> [..] dmar_fault+0x1a8/0x1fc$\n'
> [..] dmar_fault_work+0x15/0x17$\n'
> [..] process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3a9$\n'
> [..] worker_thread+0x25d/0x345$\n'
> [..] kthread+0xea/0xf2$\n'
> [..] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90$\n'
>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
> Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/dmar.c | 8 +++-----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dmar.c b/drivers/iommu/dmar.c
> index accf58388bdb..6c4ea32ee6a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/dmar.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/dmar.c
> @@ -1618,17 +1618,13 @@ irqreturn_t dmar_fault(int irq, void *dev_id)
> int reg, fault_index;
> u32 fault_status;
> unsigned long flag;
> - bool ratelimited;
> static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(rs,
> DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
> DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
>
> - /* Disable printing, simply clear the fault when ratelimited
> */
> - ratelimited = !__ratelimit(&rs);
> -
> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&iommu->register_lock, flag);
> fault_status = readl(iommu->reg + DMAR_FSTS_REG);
> - if (fault_status && !ratelimited)
> + if (fault_status && __ratelimit(&rs))
> pr_err("DRHD: handling fault status reg %x\n",
> fault_status);
>
> /* TBD: ignore advanced fault log currently */
> @@ -1638,6 +1634,8 @@ irqreturn_t dmar_fault(int irq, void *dev_id)
> fault_index = dma_fsts_fault_record_index(fault_status);
> reg = cap_fault_reg_offset(iommu->cap);
> while (1) {
> + /* Disable printing, simply clear the fault when
> ratelimited */
> + bool ratelimited = !__ratelimit(&rs);
> u8 fault_reason;
> u16 source_id;
> u64 guest_addr;