Re: [PATCH] pci: Disable master abort while waiting for an FLR to complete

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On Mon, 15 May 2017 12:48:30 -0700
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:13:57AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:  
> >> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> This patch is meant to address issues seen when performing on FLR on some
> >> systems as the long wait can result in a master abort when reading a
> >> function that is not yet ready.
> >>
> >> To prevent the master abort from being reported up we should disable
> >> reporting for it while waiting on the reset. Once the reset is completed
> >> then we can re-enable the master abort for the bus.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 5adecf817dd6 ("PCI: Wait for up to 1000ms after FLR reset")
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> I haven't been able to test this code as I don't have a system that can
> >> reproduce the issue. The fix itself is based on the issue as reported by
> >> Brian so I am hoping he can test this on the Samsung Chromebook Plus with
> >> RK399 OP1 that this was seen on.  
> >
> > FYI, it's "RK3399" not "RK399". No harm done :)  
> 
> I will try to update my patch in case there is a future re-submission.
> 
> >>  drivers/pci/pci.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> >> index 7904d02ffdb9..acbdbabeaa0e 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> >> @@ -3758,14 +3758,31 @@ int pci_wait_for_pending_transaction(struct pci_dev *dev)
> >>   */
> >>  static void pci_flr_wait(struct pci_dev *dev)
> >>  {
> >> +     struct pci_dev *bridge = dev->bus->self;
> >>       int i = 0;
> >> +     u16 bctl;
> >>       u32 id;
> >>
> >> +     /*
> >> +      * Disable MasterAbortMode while we are waiting to avoid reporting
> >> +      * bus errors for reading the command register on a device that is
> >> +      * not ready (in some architectures)  
> >
> > I assume it's intentional to only do this *after* you've started the
> > reset (but before you start polling)?  
> 
> Yes. The general idea is that the only thing that should be accessing
> the device is us. So this way we can catch any other code that might
> be broken such as a device driver that is leaving a thread active that
> is accessing the device before a reset.
> 
> >> +      */
> >> +     if (bridge) {
> >> +             pci_read_config_word(bridge, PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL, &bctl);
> >> +             pci_write_config_word(bridge, PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL,
> >> +                                   bctl & ~PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_MASTER_ABORT);
> >> +     }
> >> +
> >>       do {
> >>               msleep(100);
> >>               pci_read_config_dword(dev, PCI_COMMAND, &id);  
> >
> > IIUC, the patch works fine, in that I no longer get an abort from the
> > RC.  
> 
> So did you actually test this patch or are you just speculating it
> should work? I'm just not sure what you mean by "IIUC" in this context
> here, were you referring to how the patch fixes the issue or how the
> testing should work for verifying it fixed the issue?
> 
> >>       } while (i++ < 10 && id == ~0);  
> >
> > BTW, the RK3399 host controller doesn't actually return all 1's on
> > aborted transactions. So this loop doesn't really work for it at all.
> >
> > I take it that this (seemingly widely used) pattern all derives from the
> > PCI spec, which notes:
> >
> >   "The host bus bridge, in PC compatible systems, must return all 1's on
> >   a read transaction and discard data on a write transaction when
> >   terminated with Master-Abort."
> >
> > RK3399 is far from a "PC compatible system", but I don't know if that's
> > a real excuse here...  
> 
> So if it doesn't return all 1's does it return all 0's? I'm just
> curious what is returned?
> 
> Also do we know why we are reading the PCI_COMMAND register instead of
> just checking for the device ID? Just wondering because the easiest
> solution would be to copy out the logic in
> pci_bus_read_dev_vendor_id() if all we are doing is waiting on the
> configuration space to begin responding to requests again.

Because SR-IOV VFs don't implement the first dword.  Thanks,

Alex



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