Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/platform/UV: use efi_runtime_sem to serialise BIOS calls

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On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:14 Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
Hi Hedi,

Hi Bhupesh,

Thanks for the patchset.

Thanks for looking at it.

I will give this a go on my sgi-uv300 machine and come back with more detailed inputs,

and for testing it.

but I wanted to ask about the hang/panic you mentioned in the cover letter when efi_scratch gets clobbered. Can you describe the same (for e.g. how to reproduce this).

When efi_switch_mm() gets called concurrently from two different CPUs
--via arch_efi_call_virt_setup()-- due to lack of serialisation in
uv_bios_call(), efi_scratch.prev_mm is overwritten and that's how all
hell breaks loose, and that's when you see either a hang (the more
frequent failure mode) or a panic.

In order to reproduce the problem you'd need, for example, a kernel
module that makes use of uv_bios_call(), in which case a test case
would be a loop with:

	- 2 concurrent tasks both invoking uv_bios_call()

or
	- 2 concurrent tasks
		- one invoking uv_bios_call()
		- one, for example, accessing an EFI vars via efivars

Nitpicks below:


On 01/09/2019 04:15 PM, Hedi Berriche wrote:
Calls into UV firmware must be protected against concurrency, use the
now visible efi_runtime_sem lock to serialise them.

Signed-off-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi.berriche@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h
index 4eee646544b2..33e94aa0b1ff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ enum {
 	BIOS_STATUS_SUCCESS		=  0,
 	BIOS_STATUS_UNIMPLEMENTED	= -ENOSYS,
 	BIOS_STATUS_EINVAL		= -EINVAL,
-	BIOS_STATUS_UNAVAIL		= -EBUSY
+	BIOS_STATUS_UNAVAIL		= -EBUSY,
+	BIOS_STATUS_ABORT		= -EINTR
 };
 /* Address map parameters */
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
index cd05af157763..92f960798e20 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
 struct uv_systab *uv_systab;
-s64 uv_bios_call(enum uv_bios_cmd which, u64 a1, u64 a2, u64 a3, u64 a4, u64 a5)
+s64 __uv_bios_call(enum uv_bios_cmd which, u64 a1, u64 a2, u64 a3,
+			u64 a4, u64 a5)

Can we make this static?

Will do.

 {
 	struct uv_systab *tab = uv_systab;
 	s64 ret;
@@ -44,13 +45,26 @@ s64 uv_bios_call(enum uv_bios_cmd which, u64 a1, u64 a2, u64 a3, u64 a4, u64 a5)
 	 * If EFI_OLD_MEMMAP is set, we need to fall back to using our old EFI
 	 * callback method, which uses efi_call() directly, with the kernel page tables:
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(test_bit(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP, &efi.flags)))
+	if (unlikely(efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP)))
 		ret = efi_call((void *)__va(tab->function), (u64)which, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5);
 	else
 		ret = efi_call_virt_pointer(tab, function, (u64)which, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5);
 	return ret;
 }
+
+s64 uv_bios_call(enum uv_bios_cmd which, u64 a1, u64 a2, u64 a3, u64 a4, u64 a5)
+{
+	s64 ret;
+
+	if (down_interruptible(&efi_runtime_sem))
+		return BIOS_STATUS_ABORT;
+
+	ret = __uv_bios_call(which, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5);
+	up(&efi_runtime_sem);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_bios_call);
 s64 uv_bios_call_irqsave(enum uv_bios_cmd which, u64 a1, u64 a2, u64 a3,
@@ -59,10 +73,15 @@ s64 uv_bios_call_irqsave(enum uv_bios_cmd which, u64 a1, u64 a2, u64 a3,
 	unsigned long bios_flags;
 	s64 ret;
+	if (down_interruptible(&efi_runtime_sem))
+		return BIOS_STATUS_ABORT;
+
 	local_irq_save(bios_flags);
-	ret = uv_bios_call(which, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5);
+	ret = __uv_bios_call(which, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5);
 	local_irq_restore(bios_flags);
+	up(&efi_runtime_sem);
+
 	return ret;
 }

Thanks,
Bhupesh

Cheers,
Hedi.
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