On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 2:21 PM Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 22-01-23 16:28:49, Dan Williams wrote:
> > From: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The original driver implementation used the doorbell timeout for the
> > Mailbox Interface Ready bit to piggy back off of, since the latter does
> > not have a defined timeout. This functionality, introduced in commit
> > 8adaf747c9f0 ("cxl/mem: Find device capabilities"), needs improvement as
> > the recent "Add Mailbox Ready Time" ECN timeout indicates that the
> > mailbox ready time can be significantly longer that 2 seconds.
> >
> > While the specification limits the maximum timeout to 256s, the cxl_pci
> > driver gives up on the mailbox after 60s. This value corresponds with
> > important timeout values already present in the kernel. A module
> > parameter is provided as an emergency override and represents the
> > default Linux policy for all devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > [djbw: add modparam, drop check_device_status()]
> > Co-developed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/cxl/pci.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> > index 8dc91fd3396a..ed8de9eac970 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> > @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
> > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > /* Copyright(c) 2020 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. */
> > #include <linux/io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h>
> > +#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
> > #include <linux/module.h>
> > +#include <linux/delay.h>
> > #include <linux/sizes.h>
> > #include <linux/mutex.h>
> > #include <linux/list.h>
> > @@ -35,6 +37,20 @@
> > /* CXL 2.0 - 8.2.8.4 */
> > #define CXL_MAILBOX_TIMEOUT_MS (2 * HZ)
> >
> > +/*
> > + * CXL 2.0 ECN "Add Mailbox Ready Time" defines a capability field to
> > + * dictate how long to wait for the mailbox to become ready. The new
> > + * field allows the device to tell software the amount of time to wait
> > + * before mailbox ready. This field per the spec theoretically allows
> > + * for up to 255 seconds. 255 seconds is unreasonably long, its longer
> > + * than the maximum SATA port link recovery wait. Default to 60 seconds
> > + * until someone builds a CXL device that needs more time in practice.
> > + */
> > +static unsigned short mbox_ready_timeout = 60;
> > +module_param(mbox_ready_timeout, ushort, 0600);
>
> Any reason not to make it 0644?
>
Are there any tooling scenarios where this information is usable by non-root?
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(mbox_ready_timeout,
> > + "seconds to wait for mailbox ready status");
> > +
> > static int cxl_pci_mbox_wait_for_doorbell(struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds)
> > {
> > const unsigned long start = jiffies;
> > @@ -281,6 +297,25 @@ static int cxl_pci_mbox_send(struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds, struct cxl_mbox_cmd *c
> > static int cxl_pci_setup_mailbox(struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds)
> > {
> > const int cap = readl(cxlds->regs.mbox + CXLDEV_MBOX_CAPS_OFFSET);
> > + unsigned long timeout;
> > + u64 md_status;
> > +
> > + timeout = jiffies + mbox_ready_timeout * HZ;
> > + do {
> > + md_status = readq(cxlds->regs.memdev + CXLMDEV_STATUS_OFFSET);
> > + if (md_status & CXLMDEV_MBOX_IF_READY)
> > + break;
> > + if (msleep_interruptible(100))
> > + break;
> > + } while (!time_after(jiffies, timeout));
>
> Just pointing out the [probably] obvious. If the user specifies a zero second
> timeout, the code will still wait 100ms.
Sure, is that going to be a problem in practice? I expect the
overwhelming common case is that the mailbox is already ready by this
point, so it's a zero-wait.
>
> > +
> > + if (!(md_status & CXLMDEV_MBOX_IF_READY)) {
> > + dev_err(cxlds->dev,
> > + "timeout awaiting mailbox ready, device state:%s%s\n",
> > + md_status & CXLMDEV_DEV_FATAL ? " fatal" : "",
> > + md_status & CXLMDEV_FW_HALT ? " firmware-halt" : "");
> > + return -EIO;
> > + }
> >
> > cxlds->mbox_send = cxl_pci_mbox_send;
> > cxlds->payload_size =
> >
