This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: 8250_pci: Avoid irq sharing for MSI(-X) interrupts.
to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
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From: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 06:33:06 +0200
Subject: serial: 8250_pci: Avoid irq sharing for MSI(-X) interrupts.
This attempts to fix a bug found with a serial port card which uses
an MCS9922 chip, one of the 4 models for which MSI-X interrupts are
currently supported. I don't possess such a card, and i'm not
experienced with the serial subsystem, so this patch is based on what
i think i found as a likely reason for failure, based on walking the
user who actually owns the card through some diagnostic.
The user who reported the problem finds the following in his dmesg
output for the relevant ttyS4 and ttyS5:
[ 0.580425] serial 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[ 0.601448] 0000:02:00.0: ttyS4 at I/O 0x3010 (irq = 125, base_baud = 115200) is a ST16650V2
[ 0.603089] serial 0000:02:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[ 0.624119] 0000:02:00.1: ttyS5 at I/O 0x3000 (irq = 126, base_baud = 115200) is a ST16650V2
...
[ 6.323784] genirq: Flags mismatch irq 128. 00000080 (ttyS5) vs. 00000000 (xhci_hcd)
[ 6.324128] genirq: Flags mismatch irq 128. 00000080 (ttyS5) vs. 00000000 (xhci_hcd)
...
Output of setserial -a:
/dev/ttyS4, Line 4, UART: 16650V2, Port: 0x3010, IRQ: 127
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
This suggests to me that the serial driver wants to register and share a
MSI/MSI-X irq 128 with the xhci_hcd driver, whereas the xhci driver does
not want to share the irq, as flags 0x00000080 (== IRQF_SHARED) from the
serial port driver means to share the irq, and this mismatch ends in some
failed irq init?
With this setup, data reception works very unreliable, with dropped data,
already at a transmission rate of only a 16 Bytes chunk every 1/120th of
a second, ie. 1920 Bytes/sec, presumably due to rx fifo overflow due to
mishandled or not used at all rx irq's?
See full discussion thread with attempted diagnosis at:
https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/issues-with-iscan-serial-port-recording/3886
Disabling the use of MSI interrupts for the serial port pci card did
fix the reliability problems. The user executed the following sequence
of commands to achieve this:
echo 0000:02:00.0 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/serial/unbind
echo 0000:02:00.1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/serial/unbind
echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:00.0/msi_bus
echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:00.1/msi_bus
echo 0000:02:00.0 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/serial/bind
echo 0000:02:00.1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/serial/bind
This resulted in the following log output:
[ 82.179021] pci 0000:02:00.0: MSI/MSI-X disallowed for future drivers
[ 87.003031] pci 0000:02:00.1: MSI/MSI-X disallowed for future drivers
[ 98.537010] 0000:02:00.0: ttyS4 at I/O 0x3010 (irq = 17, base_baud = 115200) is a ST16650V2
[ 103.648124] 0000:02:00.1: ttyS5 at I/O 0x3000 (irq = 18, base_baud = 115200) is a ST16650V2
This patch attempts to fix the problem by disabling irq sharing when
using MSI irq's. Note that all i know for sure is that disabling MSI
irq's fixed the problem for the user, so this patch could be wrong and
is untested. Please review with caution, keeping this in mind.
Fixes: 8428413b1d14 ("serial: 8250_pci: Implement MSI(-X) support")
Cc: Ralf Ramsauer <ralf.ramsauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729043306.18528-1-mario.kleiner.de@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
index 02985cf90ef2..a808c283883e 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
@@ -4002,6 +4002,7 @@ pciserial_init_ports(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pciserial_board *board)
if (pci_match_id(pci_use_msi, dev)) {
dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "Using MSI(-X) interrupts\n");
pci_set_master(dev);
+ uart.port.flags &= ~UPF_SHARE_IRQ;
rc = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(dev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES);
} else {
dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "Using legacy interrupts\n");
--
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