linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Workaround for uPD72020x USB3 chips

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 07:48:16 +0100
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Workaround for uPD72020x USB3 chips

On 13 July 2017 at 04:12, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 04:52:28PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Ard and myself have just spent quite some time lately trying to pin
>> down an issue in the DMA code which was taking the form of a PCIe USB3
>> controller issuing a DMA access at some bizarre address, and being
>> caught red-handed by the IOMMU.
>>
>> After much head scratching and most of a week-end spent on tracing the
>> damn thing, I'm now convinced that the DMA code is fine, the XHCI
>> driver is correct, but that the HW (a Renesas uPD720202 chip) is a
>> nasty piece of work.
>>
>> The issue is as follow:
>>
>> - EFI initializes the controller using physical addresses above the
>>   4GB limit (this is on an arm64 box where the memory starts at
>>   0x80_00000000...).
>>
>> - The kernel takes over, sends a XHCI reset to the controller, and
>>   because we have an IOMMU sitting between the controller and memory,
>>   provides *virtual* addresses. Trying to make things a bit faster for
>>   our controller, it issues IOVAs in the low 4GB range).
>>
>> - Low and behold, the controller is now issuing transactions with a
>>   0x80 prefix in front of our IOVA. Yes, the same prefix that was
>>   programmed during the EFI configuration. IOMMU fault, not happy.
>>
>> If the kernel is hacked to only generate IOVAs that are more than
>> 32bit wide, the HW behaves correctly. The only way I can explain this
>> behaviour is that the HW latches the top 32bit of the ERST (it is
>> always the ERST IOVA that appears in my traces) in some internal
>> register, and that the XHCI reset fails to clear it. Writing zero in
>> the top bits is not enough to clear it either.
>>
>> So far, the only solution we have for this lovely piece of kit is to
>> force a PCI reset at probe time, which puts it right. The patches are
>> pretty ugly, but that's the best I could come up with so far.
>>
>> Tested on a pair of AMD Opteron 1100 boxes with Renesas uPD720201 and
>> uPD720202 controllers.
>>
>> Marc Zyngier (2):
>>   PCI: Implement pci_reset_function_locked
>>   usb: host: pci_quirks: Force hard reset of Renesas uPD72020x USB
>>     controller
>>
>>  drivers/pci/pci.c             | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.h |  1 +
>>  drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c   |  7 +++++++
>>  include/linux/pci.h           |  1 +
>>  5 files changed, 64 insertions(+)
>
> I provisionally applied this to pci/virtualization.  I'd like to have an
> XHCI ack before going further, though.
>
> I assume this only affects boxes where the firmware uses addresses above
> 4GB, i.e., not very many?  So this is v4.14 material?  Or do you think it's
> important for v4.13?
>

As I mentioned, it would be nice if this could at least go into v4.11
and later, given that v4.11 contains a patch that switches all PCI
devices to 32-bit addressing only when the IOMMU is involved in DMA,
and this is what triggered the issue on arm64 boards with such a PCI
card and no DRAM below 4 GB.

Thanks,
Ard.