linux-kernel - Re: 5.10 regression caused by: "uas: fix sdev->host->dma_dev": many XHCI swiotlb buffer is full / DMAR: Device bounce map failed errors on thunderbolt connected XHCI controller

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Date:   Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:43:21 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Tom Yan <tom.ty89@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 5.10 regression caused by: "uas: fix sdev->host->dma_dev": many
 XHCI swiotlb buffer is full / DMAR: Device bounce map failed errors on
 thunderbolt connected XHCI controller

Hi Tom,

On 11/28/20 2:25 AM, Tom Yan wrote:
> Should we still be clamping max_sectors to dma_max_mapping_size(dev)
> (for now)? with dev being us->pusb_dev->bus->sysdev and
> devinfo->udev->bus->sysdev respectively (i.e. revert only
> scsi_add_host_with_dma() to scsi_add_host())?

I would expect that to work / avoid the regression, so yes that is
a good option.

If you can provide me with a patch doing that, then I can test it to
make sure it does indeed fix the regression.

Regards,

Hans


> 
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 02:12, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11/27/20 5:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 01:32:16PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> I ran some more tests, I can confirm that reverting:
>>>>
>>>> 5df7ef7d32fe "uas: bump hw_max_sectors to 2048 blocks for SS or faster drives"
>>>> 558033c2828f "uas: fix sdev->host->dma_dev"
>>>>
>>>> Makes the problem go away while running a 5.10 kernel. I also tried doubling
>>>> the swiotlb size by adding: swiotlb=65536 to the kernel commandline but that
>>>> does not help.
>>>>
>>>> Some more observations:
>>>>
>>>> 1. The usb-storage driver does not cause this issue, even though it has a
>>>> very similar change.
>>>>
>>>> 2. The problem does not happen until I plug an UAS decvice into the dock.
>>>>
>>>> 3. The problem continues to happen even after I unplug the UAS device and
>>>> rmmod the uas module
>>>>
>>>> 3. made me take a bit closer look to the troublesome commit, it passes:
>>>> udev->bus->sysdev, which I assume is the XHCI controller itself as device
>>>> to scsi_add_host_with_dma, which in turn seems to cause permanent changes
>>>> to the dma settings for the XHCI controller. I'm not all that familiar with
>>>> the DMA APIs but I'm getting the feeling that passing the actual XHCI-controller's
>>>> device as dma-device to scsi_add_host_with_dma is simply the wrong thing to
>>>> do; and that the intended effects (honor XHCI dma limits, but do not cause
>>>> any changes the XHCI dma settings) should be achieved differently.
>>>>
>>>> Note that if this is indeed wrong, the matching usb-storage change should
>>>> likely also be dropped.
>>>
>>> One problem in this area is that the clamping of the DMA size through
>>> dma_max_mapping_size mentioned in the commit log doesn't work when
>>> swiotlb is called from intel-iommu. I think we need to wire up those
>>> calls there as well.
>>
>> Ok, but that does not sound like a quick last minute fix for 5.10, so maybe
>> for 5.10 we should just revert the uas and usb-storage changes which trigger
>> this problem and then retry those for 5.11 ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>