Re: [PATCH V5 3/3] PCI: Mask and unmask hotplug interrupts during reset

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On 2018-07-03 06:52, poza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 2018-07-03 14:04, Lukas Wunner wrote:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 06:52:47PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
If a bridge supports hotplug and observes a PCIe fatal error, the following
events happen:

1. AER driver removes the devices from PCI tree on fatal error
2. AER driver brings down the link by issuing a secondary bus reset waits
for the link to come up.
3. Hotplug driver observes a link down interrupt
4. Hotplug driver tries to remove the devices waiting for the rescan lock but devices are already removed by the AER driver and AER driver is waiting
for the link to come back up.
5. AER driver tries to re-enumerate devices after polling for the link
state to go up.
6. Hotplug driver obtains the lock and tries to remove the devices again.

If a bridge is a hotplug capable bridge, mask hotplug interrupts before the
reset and unmask afterwards.

Would it work for you if you just amended the AER driver to skip
removal and re-enumeration of devices if the port is a hotplug bridge?
Just check for is_hotplug_bridge in struct pci_dev.


I tend to agree with you Lukas.

on this line I already have follow up patches
although I am waiting for Bjorn to review some patch-series before that.
[PATCH v2 0/6] Fix issues and cleanup for ERR_FATAL and ERR_NONFATAL

It doesn't look to me a an entirely a race condition since its guarded
by pci_lock_rescan_remove())
I observed that both hotplug and aer/dpc comes out of it in a quiet sane state.


To add more detail on when this issue happens.

This problem is more visible on root ports with MSI-x capability or with multiple MSI interrupt numbers.

AFAIK, QDT root ports are single shared MSI interrupt only. Therefore, you won't see this issue.

As you can see in the code, rescan lock is held for the entire fatal error handling path.

My thinking is: Disabling hotplug interrupts during ERR_FATAL,
is something little away from natural course of link_down event
handling, which is handled by pciehp more maturely.
so it would be just easy not to take any action e.g. removal and
re-enumeration of devices from ERR_FATAL handling point of view.


I think it is more unnatural to fragment code flow and allow two drivers to do the same thing in parallel or create inter-driver dependency.

I got the idea from pci_reset_slot() function which is already masking hotplug interrupts when called by external entries during secondary bus reset. We just didn't handle the same for fatal error cases.



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