Re: [PATCH] vfio/pci: Support error recovery

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On 11/28/2016 11:00 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 07:34:17PM +0800, Cao jin wrote:
It is user space driver's or device-specific driver's(in guest) responsbility
to do a serious recovery when error happened. Link-reset is one part of
recovery, when pci device is assigned to VM via vfio, link-reset will do
twice in host & guest separately, which will cause many trouble for a
successful recovery, so, disable the vfio-pci's link-reset in aer driver
in host, this is a keypoint for guest to do error recovery successfully.

CC: alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx
CC: mst@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This is actually a RFC version(has debug lines left), and has minor changes in
aer driver, so I think maybe it is better not to CC pci guys in this round.
Later will do.

  drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c  | 12 ++++++-
  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c         | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h |  2 ++
  3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c
index 521e39c..289fb8e 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c
@@ -496,7 +496,17 @@ static void do_recovery(struct pci_dev *dev, int severity)
  			"error_detected",
  			report_error_detected);

-	if (severity == AER_FATAL) {
+	/* vfio-pci as a general meta driver, it actually couldn't do any real
+	 * recovery for device. It is user space driver, or device-specific
+	 * driver in guest who should take care of the serious error recovery,
+	 * link reset actually is one part of whole recovery. Doing reset_link
+	 * in aer driver of host kernel for vfio-pci devices will cause many
+	 * trouble for user space driver or guest's device-specific driver,
+	 * for example: the serious recovery often need to read register in
+	 * config space, but if register reading happens during link-resetting,
+	 * it is quite possible to return invalid value like all F's, which
+	 * will result in unpredictable error. */

Fix multi-comment style please.

+	if (severity == AER_FATAL && strcmp(dev->driver->name, "vfio-pci")) {

You really want some flag in the device, or something similar.
Also, how do we know driver is not going away at this point?


I didn't think of this condition, and I don't quite follow how would driver go away?(device has error happened, then is removed?)

  		result = reset_link(dev);
  		if (result != PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED)
  			goto failed;

@@ -1187,10 +1200,30 @@ static pci_ers_result_t vfio_pci_aer_err_detected(struct pci_dev *pdev,
  		return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT;
  	}

+	/* get device's uncorrectable error status as soon as possible,
+	 * and signal it to user space. The later we read it, the possibility
+	 * the register value is mangled grows. */
+	aer_cap_offset = pci_find_ext_capability(vdev->pdev, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_ERR);
+	ret = pci_read_config_dword(vdev->pdev, aer_cap_offset +
+                                    PCI_ERR_UNCOR_STATUS, &uncor_status);
+        if (ret)
+                return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT;
+
+	pr_err("device %d got AER detect notification. uncorrectable error status = 0x%x\n", pdev->devfn, uncor_status);//to be removed
  	mutex_lock(&vdev->igate);
+
+	vdev->aer_recovering = true;
+	reinit_completion(&vdev->aer_error_completion);
+
+	/* suspend config space access from user space,
+	 * when vfio-pci's error recovery process is on */

what about access to memory etc? Do you need to suspend this as well?


Yes, this question came into my mind a little bit, but I didn't see some existing APIs like pci_cfg_access_xxx which can help to do this.(I am still not familiar with kernel)

+	pci_cfg_access_trylock(vdev->pdev);

If you trylock, you need to handle failure.

try lock returns 0 if access is already locked, 1 otherwise. Is it necessary to check its return value?


--
Sincerely,
Cao jin


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