[+cc Lorenzo]
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:48:14PM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote:
> On Thursday 09 November 2017 02:55 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:33:07PM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote:
> >>limits MSI target address to only 32-bit region to enable
> >>some of the PCIe end points where only 32-bit MSIs
> >>are supported work properly.
> >>One example being Marvel SATA controller
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>---
> >> drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c b/drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c
> >>index 1987fec1f126..03d3dcdd06c2 100644
> >>--- a/drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c
> >>+++ b/drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c
> >>@@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@ static int tegra_pcie_enable_msi(struct tegra_pcie *pcie)
> >> }
> >> /* setup AFI/FPCI range */
> >>- msi->pages = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
> >>+ msi->pages = __get_free_pages(GFP_DMA, 0);
> >> msi->phys = virt_to_phys((void *)msi->pages);
>
> >Should this be GFP_DMA32? See the comment above the GFP_DMA
> >definition.
>
> looking at the comments for both GFP_DMA32 and GFP_DMA, I thought GFP_DMA32
> is the correct one to use, but, even with that I got >32-bit addresses.
> GFP_DMA always gives addresses in <4GB boundary (i.e. 32-bit).
> I didn't dig into it to find out why is this the case.
This sounds worth looking into (but maybe we don't need the
__get_free_pages() at all; see below). Maybe there's some underlying
bug. My laptop shows this, which looks like it might be related:
Zone ranges:
DMA [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000ffffff]
DMA32 [mem 0x0000000001000000-0x00000000ffffffff]
Normal [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x00000004217fffff]
Device empty
What does your machine show?
> >Should we be using virt_to_phys() here? Where exactly is the
> >result ("msi->phys") used, i.e., what bus will that address appear
> >on? If it appears on the PCI side, this should probably use
> >something like pcibios_resource_to_bus().
>
> This address is written to two places. First, into host's internal
> register to let it know that when an incoming memory write comes
> with this address, raise an MSI interrupt instead of forwarding it
> to memory subsystem. Second, into 'Message Address' field of
> 'Message Address Register for MSI' register in end point's
> configuration space (this is done by MSI framework) for end point to
> know which address to be used to generate MSI interrupt.
Hmmm, ISTR some past discussion about this. Here's a little: [1, 2].
And this commit [3] sounds like it describes a similar hardware
situation with Tegra where the host bridge intercepts the MSI target
address, so writes to it never reach system memory. That means that
Tegra doesn't need to allocate system memory at all.
Is your system similar? Can you just statically allocate a little bus
address space, use that for the MSI target address, and skip the
__get_free_pages()?
> >Do rcar_pcie_enable_msi() and xilinx_pcie_enable_msi() have a
> >similar problem? They both use GFP_KERNEL, then virt_to_phys(),
> >then write the result of virt_to_phys() using a 32-bit register
> >write.
>
> Well, if those systems deal with 64-bit addresses and when an end
> point is connected which supports only 32-bit MSI addresses, this
> problem will surface when __get_free_pages() returns an address that
> translates to a >32-bit address after virt_to_phys() call on it.
I'd like to hear from the R-Car and Xilinx folks about (1) whether
there's a potential issue with truncating a 64-bit address, and
(2) whether that hardware works like Tegra, where the MSI write never
reaches memory so we don't actually need to allocate a page.
If all we need is to allocate a little bus address space for the MSI
target, I'd like to figure out a better way to do that than
__get_free_pages(). The current code seems a little buggy, and
it's getting propagated through several drivers.
> >> afi_writel(pcie, msi->phys >> soc->msi_base_shift, AFI_MSI_FPCI_BAR_ST);
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824134451.GA31858@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/86efs3wesi.fsf@xxxxxxx
[3] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d7bd554f27c9
