linux-kernel - [patch 1/8] PCI/MSI: Enable and mask MSIX early

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Message-Id: <20210721192650.106154171@linutronix.de>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:11:27 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        x86@...nel.org
Subject: [patch 1/8] PCI/MSI: Enable and mask MSIX early

The ordering of MSI-X enable in hardware is disfunctional:

 1) MSI-X is disabled in the control register
 2) Various setup functions
 3) pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs() is invoked which ends up accessing
    the MSI-X table entries
 4) MSI-X is enabled and masked in the control register with the
    comment that enabling is required for some hardware to access
    the MSI-X table

#4 obviously contradicts #3. The history of this is an issue with the NIU
hardware. When #4 was introduced the table access actually happened in
msix_program_entries() which was invoked after enabling and masking MSI-X.

This was changed in commit d71d6432e105 ("PCI/MSI: Kill redundant call of
irq_set_msi_desc() for MSI-X interrupts") which removed the table write
from msix_program_entries().

Interestingly enough nobody noticed and either NIU still works or it did
not get any testing with a kernel 3.19 or later.

Nevertheless this is inconsistent and there is no reason why MSI-X can't be
enabled and masked in the control register early on, i.e. move #4 above to
#1. This preserves the NIU workaround and has no side effects on other
hardware.

Fixes: d71d6432e105 ("PCI/MSI: Kill redundant call of irq_set_msi_desc() for MSI-X interrupts")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
---
 drivers/pci/msi.c |   28 +++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
@@ -772,18 +772,25 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct p
 	u16 control;
 	void __iomem *base;
 
-	/* Ensure MSI-X is disabled while it is set up */
-	pci_msix_clear_and_set_ctrl(dev, PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Some devices require MSI-X to be enabled before the MSI-X
+	 * registers can be accessed.  Mask all the vectors to prevent
+	 * interrupts coming in before they're fully set up.
+	 */
+	pci_msix_clear_and_set_ctrl(dev, 0, PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL |
+				    PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE);
 
 	pci_read_config_word(dev, dev->msix_cap + PCI_MSIX_FLAGS, &control);
 	/* Request & Map MSI-X table region */
 	base = msix_map_region(dev, msix_table_size(control));
-	if (!base)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	if (!base) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out_disable;
+	}
 
 	ret = msix_setup_entries(dev, base, entries, nvec, affd);
 	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+		goto out_disable;
 
 	ret = pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs(dev, nvec, PCI_CAP_ID_MSIX);
 	if (ret)
@@ -794,14 +801,6 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct p
 	if (ret)
 		goto out_free;
 
-	/*
-	 * Some devices require MSI-X to be enabled before we can touch the
-	 * MSI-X registers.  We need to mask all the vectors to prevent
-	 * interrupts coming in before they're fully set up.
-	 */
-	pci_msix_clear_and_set_ctrl(dev, 0,
-				PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL | PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE);
-
 	msix_program_entries(dev, entries);
 
 	ret = populate_msi_sysfs(dev);
@@ -836,6 +835,9 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct p
 out_free:
 	free_msi_irqs(dev);
 
+out_disable:
+	pci_msix_clear_and_set_ctrl(dev, PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE, 0);
+
 	return ret;
 }