linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iommu: moving initialization earlier

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:40:17 -0700
From:	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu: moving initialization earlier

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 06:51:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> The iommu_init() initializes IOMMU internal structures and data
>> required for the IOMMU API as iommu_group_alloc().
>> It is registered as a subsys_initcall now.
>>
>> One of the IOMMU users is going to be a PCI subsystem on POWER.
>> It discovers new IOMMU tables during the PCI scan so the logical
>> place to call iommu_group_alloc() is the moment when a new group
>> is discovered. However PCI scan is done from subsys_initcall hook
>> as IOMMU does so PCI hook can be (and is) called before the IOMMU one.
>>
>> The patch moves IOMMU subsystem initialization one step earlier
>> to make sure that IOMMU is initialized before PCI scan begins.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
>
> Applied, thanks.

Joerg,

Could you please consider this patch for stable releases.

I am currently debugging IO_PAGE_FAULTS on 3.6.11 (happens on all
pre-3.7 releases). I root-caused the reason 3.7 works is because in
3.7 amd iommu driver moving up the early iommu initialization from
irq_remap_ops with the irq remapping feature.

I looked into back-porting a small sub-set of the changes from 3.7. In
the process, I back-ported the following change that fixes
IO_PAGE_FAULTS the problem to some extent.

33f28c59e18d83fd2aeef258d211be66b9b80eb3
[PATCH] iommu/amd: Split device table initialization into irq and
 dma part

My back-port reduced the IO_PAGE_FAULTS, but still happen. I applied
Alexey's patch on top of my back-ported change, and I no longer see
any IO_PAGE_FAULTS. So my second question/request is would you
consider my back-ported patch for stables which I will send out.

Here is the snippet from dmesg from 3.7 and 3.6.11 that illustrates
the change in early initialization during kernel boot process:

Snippet from 3.7:
[    0.009980] Freeing SMP alternatives: 24k freed
[    0.011486] ACPI: Core revision 20120913
[    0.017291] ftrace: allocating 24968 entries in 98 pages
[    0.025792] SK: before iommu_init_flags()
[    1.015392] SK: before iommu_set_device_table()
[    2.004989] SK: before iommu_enable_command_buffer()
[    2.994600] SK: before iommu_enable_event_buffer()
[    3.984469] SK: before iommu_set_exclusion_range()
[    4.974066] SK: before iommu_enable()
[    5.963662] SK: after iommu_flush_all_caches()
[    8.024776] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[    8.064424] smpboot: CPU0: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6328 (fam: 15,
model: 02, stepping: 00)

Snippet from 3.6.11:
[    3.305383] PCI: CLS 64 bytes, default 64
[    3.305424] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[    5.137815] Freeing initrd memory: 118756k freed
[    5.169817] SK: before iommu_init_flags()
[    6.159717] SK: before iommu_set_device_table()
[    7.149435] SK: before iommu_enable_command_buffer()
[    8.139149] SK: before iommu_enable_event_buffer()
[    9.128868] SK: before iommu_set_exclusion_range()
[   10.118581] SK: before iommu_enable()
[   11.108460] SK: before iommu_flush_all_caches()
[   13.141141] SK: after iommu_flush_all_caches()
[   15.120755] pci 0000:00:00.2: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
[   15.120819] pci 0000:00:00.2: PCI INT A: no GSI
[   15.120880]

In 3.6, early iommu initialization occurs way later.

-- Shuah
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