linux-kernel - Re: Aw: Re: Re: [PATCH 09/13] PCI: mediatek: Advertise lack of MSI handling

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Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:35:14 +0000
From:   Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To:     Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Chuanjia Liu <chuanjia.liu@...iatek.com>
Cc:     linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@...iatek.com>,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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        Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
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Subject: Re: Aw: Re: Re: [PATCH 09/13] PCI: mediatek: Advertise lack of MSI
 handling

On 2021-03-01 14:06, Frank Wunderlich wrote:
>> Gesendet: Montag, 01. März 2021 um 14:31 Uhr
>> Von: "Marc Zyngier" <maz@...nel.org>
>>
>> Frank,
>>
>>>>> i guess it's a bug in ath10k driver or my r64 board (it is a v1.1
>>>>> which has missing capacitors on tx lines).
>>>>
>>>> No, this definitely looks like a bug in the MTK PCIe driver,
>>>> where the mutex is either not properly initialised, corrupted,
>>>> or the wrong pointer is passed.
>>>
>>> but why does it happen only with the ath10k-card and not the mt7612 in
>>> same slot?
>>
>> Does mt7612 use MSI? What we have here is a bogus mutex in the
>> MTK PCIe driver, and the only way not to get there would be
>> to avoid using MSIs.
> 
> i guess this card/its driver does not use MSI. Did not found anything in "datasheet" [1] or driver [2] about msi

FWIW, no need to guess - `lspci -v` (as root) should tell you whether 
the card has MSI (and/or MSI-X) capability, and whether it is enabled if so.

Robin.

>>>
>>>> This r64 machine is supposed to have working MSIs, right?
>>>
>>> imho mt7622 have working MSI
>>>
>>>> Do you get the same issue without this series?
>>>
>>> tested 5.11.0 [1] without this series (but with your/thomas' patch
>>> from discussion about my old patch) and got same trace. so this series
>>> does not break anything here.
>>
>> Can you retest without any additional patch on top of 5.11?
>> These two patches only affect platforms that do *not* have MSIs at all.
> 
> i can revert these 2, but still need patches for mt7622 pcie-support [3]...btw. i see that i miss these in 5.11-main...do not see traceback with them (have firmware not installed...)
> 
> root@...-r64:~# dmesg | grep ath
> [    6.450765] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: assign IRQ: got 146
> [    6.661752] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [    6.697811] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: enabling bus mastering
> [    6.721293] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 r
> eset_mode 0
> [    6.921030] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Failed to find firmware-N.bin (N between
>   2 and 6) from ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0: -2
> [    6.931698] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
> [    6.940417] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not probe fw (-2)
> 
> so traceback was caused by missing changes in mtk pcie-driver not yet upstream, added Chuanjia Liu
> 
>>>
>>>>> Tried with an mt7612e, this seems to work without any errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> so for mt7622/mt7623
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested-by: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>
>>>>
>>>> We definitely need to understand the above.
>>>
>>> there is a hardware-bug which may cause this...afair i saw this with
>>> the card in r64 with earlier Kernel-versions where other cards work
>>> (like the mt7612e).
>>
>> I don't think a HW bug affecting PCI would cause what we are seeing
>> here, unless it results in memory corruption.
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.asiarf.com/shop/wifi-wlan/wifi_mini_pcie/ws2433-wifi-11ac-mini-pcie-module-manufacturer/
> [2] grep -Rni 'msi' drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2/
> [3] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mediatek/list/?series=372885
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