linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Sleep waiting for tcs slots to be free

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Message-ID: <CAD=FV=UWpDQZ2voKff5GAzCfFNCpMoaO8ze8upHV=sZHiwgMSQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:40:41 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Maulik Shah <mkshah@...eaurora.org>,
        Lina Iyer <ilina@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Sleep waiting for tcs slots to be free

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:17 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
>
> The busy loop in rpmh_rsc_send_data() is written with the assumption
> that the udelay will be preempted by the tcs_tx_done() irq handler when
> the TCS slots are all full. This doesn't hold true when the calling
> thread is an irqthread and the tcs_tx_done() irq is also an irqthread.
> That's because kernel irqthreads are SCHED_FIFO and thus need to
> voluntarily give up priority by calling into the scheduler so that other
> threads can run.
>
> I see RCU stalls when I boot with irqthreads on the kernel commandline
> because the modem remoteproc driver is trying to send an rpmh async
> message from an irqthread that needs to give up the CPU for the rpmh
> irqthread to run and clear out tcs slots.
>
>  rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
>  rcu:     0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=402/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=2108/2109 fqs=4920
>   (t=21016 jiffies g=2933 q=590)
>  Task dump for CPU 0:
>  irq/11-smp2p    R  running task        0   148      2 0x00000028
>  Call trace:
>   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x154
>   show_stack+0x20/0x2c
>   sched_show_task+0xfc/0x108
>   dump_cpu_task+0x44/0x50
>   rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xa4/0xf8
>   rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x7dc/0xaa8
>   update_process_times+0x30/0x54
>   tick_sched_handle+0x50/0x64
>   tick_sched_timer+0x4c/0x8c
>   __hrtimer_run_queues+0x21c/0x36c
>   hrtimer_interrupt+0xf0/0x22c
>   arch_timer_handler_phys+0x40/0x50
>   handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x114/0x25c
>   __handle_domain_irq+0x84/0xc4
>   gic_handle_irq+0xd0/0x178
>   el1_irq+0xbc/0x180
>   save_return_addr+0x18/0x28
>   return_address+0x54/0x88
>   preempt_count_sub+0x40/0x88
>   _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4c/0x6c
>   ___ratelimit+0xd0/0x128
>   rpmh_rsc_send_data+0x24c/0x378
>   __rpmh_write+0x1b0/0x208
>   rpmh_write_async+0x90/0xbc
>   rpmhpd_send_corner+0x60/0x8c
>   rpmhpd_aggregate_corner+0x8c/0x124
>   rpmhpd_set_performance_state+0x8c/0xbc
>   _genpd_set_performance_state+0xdc/0x1b8
>   dev_pm_genpd_set_performance_state+0xb8/0xf8
>   q6v5_pds_disable+0x34/0x60 [qcom_q6v5_mss]
>   qcom_msa_handover+0x38/0x44 [qcom_q6v5_mss]
>   q6v5_handover_interrupt+0x24/0x3c [qcom_q6v5]
>   handle_nested_irq+0xd0/0x138
>   qcom_smp2p_intr+0x188/0x200
>   irq_thread_fn+0x2c/0x70
>   irq_thread+0xfc/0x14c
>   kthread+0x11c/0x12c
>   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
>
> This busy loop naturally lends itself to using a wait queue so that each
> thread that tries to send a message will sleep waiting on the waitqueue
> and only be woken up when a free slot is available. This should make
> things more predictable too because the scheduler will be able to sleep
> tasks that are waiting on a free tcs instead of the busy loop we
> currently have today.
>
> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> Cc: Maulik Shah <mkshah@...eaurora.org>
> Cc: Lina Iyer <ilina@...eaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
>  * Document tcs_wait
>  * Move wake_up() outside of the spinlock
>  * Document claim_tcs_for_req()
>
>  drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-internal.h |   4 ++
>  drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-rsc.c      | 115 +++++++++++++++----------------
>  2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>