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Date:   Mon, 1 Jun 2020 04:48:01 +0200
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

Dear Alexander,


Thank you very much for the patch.


Am 31.05.20 um 09:22 schrieb Alexander Monakov:

> Adding Shuah Khan to Cc: I've noticed you've seen this issue on Ryzen 2400GE;
> can you have a look at the patch? Would be nice to know if it fixes the
> problem for you too.

> On Fri, 29 May 2020, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> 
>> The driver performs an extra check if the IOMMU's capabilities advertise
>> presence of performance counters: it verifies that counters are writable
>> by writing a hard-coded value to a counter and testing that reading that
>> counter gives back the same value.
>>
>> Unfortunately it does so quite early, even before pci_enable_device is
>> called for the IOMMU, i.e. when accessing its MMIO space is not
>> guaranteed to work. On Ryzen 4500U CPU, this actually breaks the test:
>> the driver assumes the counters are not writable, and disables the
>> functionality.
>>
>> Moving init_iommu_perf_ctr just after iommu_flush_all_caches resolves
>> the issue. This is the earliest point in amd_iommu_init_pci where the
>> call succeeds on my laptop.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru>
>> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
>> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>
>> Cc: iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
>> ---
>>
>> PS. I'm seeing another hiccup with IOMMU probing on my system:
>> pci 0000:00:00.2: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
>> pci 0000:00:00.2: PCI INT A: not connected
>>
>> Hopefully I can figure it out, but I'd appreciate hints.

I guess it’s a firmware bug, but I contacted the linux-pci folks [1].

>>   drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_init.c | 6 +++---
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_init.c b/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_init.c
>> index 5b81fd16f5fa..1b7ec6b6a282 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_init.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_init.c
>> @@ -1788,8 +1788,6 @@ static int __init iommu_init_pci(struct amd_iommu *iommu)
>>   	if (iommu->cap & (1UL << IOMMU_CAP_NPCACHE))
>>   		amd_iommu_np_cache = true;
>>   
>> -	init_iommu_perf_ctr(iommu);
>> -
>>   	if (is_rd890_iommu(iommu->dev)) {
>>   		int i, j;
>>   
>> @@ -1891,8 +1889,10 @@ static int __init amd_iommu_init_pci(void)
>>   
>>   	init_device_table_dma();
>>   
>> -	for_each_iommu(iommu)
>> +	for_each_iommu(iommu) {
>>   		iommu_flush_all_caches(iommu);
>> +		init_iommu_perf_ctr(iommu);
>> +	}
>>   
>>   	if (!ret)
>>   		print_iommu_info();
>>
>> base-commit: 75caf310d16cc5e2f851c048cd597f5437013368

Thank you very much for fixing this issue, which is almost two years old 
for me.

Tested-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
MSI MSI MS-7A37/B350M MORTAR with AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20180727102710.GA6738@8bytes.org/


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]: 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/8579bd14-e369-1141-917b-204d20cff528@molgen.mpg.de/