Re: [PATCH 00/12] error handling and pciehp maintenance

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On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:18:47AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 12:31:45PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc arm64 folks, LKML: This conversation is about this patch:
> > 
> >   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20180918235848.26694-3-keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > which fixes some PCIe AER error injection bugs, but also makes the error
> > injector dependent on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS, which not all arches
> > support.  Note that this question is only about the error *injection*
> > module used for testing.  It doesn't affect AER support itself.]
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 04:11:37PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 04:40:15PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:58:36PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > > > I ran into a lot of trouble testing error handling, and this series is
> > > > > just trying to simplify some things. The first 4 fix up aer_inject, and
> > > > > the rest are cleanup to make better use of kernel APIs.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Keith Busch (12):
> > > > >   PCI: Set PCI bus accessors to noinline
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Covertly inject errors
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Reuse existing service device lookup
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Abstract AER interrupt handling
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Remove dead code
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Remove error source from aer struct
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Use kfifo for tracking events
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Use kfifo helper inserting locked elements
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Don't read upstream ports below fatal errors
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Use threaded IRQ for bottom half
> > > > >   PCI/AER: Use managed resource allocations
> > > > >   PCI/pciehp: Use device managed allocations
> > > > > 
> > > > >  drivers/pci/access.c              |   4 +-
> > > > >  drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c |  14 +-
> > > > >  drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c  |  48 ++----
> > > > >  drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig          |   2 +-
> > > > >  drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c            | 219 ++++++---------------------
> > > > >  drivers/pci/pcie/aer_inject.c     | 306 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> > > > >  drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.h        |   4 -
> > > > >  drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_core.c   |   1 +
> > > > >  8 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 371 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks a lot for doing this!  I applied these to pci/hotplug for
> > > > v4.20, except for "PCI/AER: Don't read upstream ports below fatal
> > > > errors", which seems to be already there via another posting, and
> > > > "PCI/pciehp: Use device managed allocations", which needs a few
> > > > tweaks.
> > > 
> > > Sounds good, and thanks for applying!
> > > 
> > > In case this went unnoticed, patch 2's aer_inject using ftrace hooks
> > > to pci config accessors is really cool and fixes several kernel crashes
> > > I encountered, but it may not work on every architecture. I'm not sure
> > > how widely aer_inject is used, so maybe there are no concerns with the
> > > DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS dependency, but I just want to reemphasize that
> > > dependency in case there are valid objections.
> > 
> > Oh, indeed, I hadn't noticed this arch dependency.  AFAICT, the new
> > DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS dependency means aer_inject will work only
> > on these arches:
> > 
> >   arm		# if (!XIP_KERNEL) && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU
> >   powerpc	# if PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> >   riscv		# ARCH_RV64I only
> >   s390
> >   x86
> > 
> > Notably missing is arm64, which has DYNAMIC_FTRACE but not
> > DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS.
> > 
> > Bjorn
> 
> Looks like the kbuild bot found an ARM kernel config that has
> DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS set, and then the module can't compile
> there. I'll need to update this patch regardless, and I think the right
> thing to do is maintain the "old" way with conditional compiling for
> any arch specific features.

Sounds messy, but probably the best route.

I dropped these patches for now:

  PCI/AER: Covertly inject errors with ftrace hooks
  PCI/AER: Reuse existing pcie_port_find_device() interface
  PCI/AER: Abstract AER interrupt handling



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