linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] genirq/msi: Shutdown managed interrupts with unsatifiable affinities

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Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:24:10 +0800
From:   Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        David Decotigny <ddecotig@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq/msi: Shutdown managed interrupts with unsatifiable
 affinities



On 2022/3/9 18:20, John Garry wrote:
> +
> 
> On 07/03/2022 19:06, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> When booting with maxcpus=<small number>, interrupt controllers
>> such as the GICv3 ITS may not be able to satisfy the affinity of
>> some managed interrupts, as some of the HW resources are simply
>> not available.
>>
>> In order to deal with this, do not try to activate such interrupt
>> if there is no online CPU capable of handling it. Instead, place
>> it in shutdown state. Once a capable CPU shows up, it will be
>> activated.
>>
>> Reported-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
>> Reported-by: David Decotigny <ddecotig@...gle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> 
> Tested-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
> 
>> ---
> 
> JFYI, I could not recreate the same crash reported in the original thread for
> "nohz_full=5-127 isolcpus=nohz,domain,managed_irq,5-127 maxcpus=1". Here's just
> showing what I set via cmdline:

I think it's the userspace online all the CPUs that cause the crash. Could you
please try to online all the CPUs after boot.

Thanks,
Xiongfeng

> 
> estuary:/$ dmesg | grep -i hz
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/john/Image rdinit=/init
> console=ttyS0,115200 no_console_suspend nvme.use_threaded_interrupts=0
> iommu.strict=0 acpi=force earlycon=pl011,mmio32,0x602b0000 nohz_full=5-127
> isolcpus=nohz,domain,managed_irq,5-127 maxcpus=1
> [    0.000000] NO_HZ: Full dynticks CPUs: 5-127.
> [    0.000000] arch_timer: cp15 timer(s) running at 100.00MHz (phys).
> [    0.000000] sched_clock: 57 bits at 100MHz, resolution 10ns, wraps every
> 4398046511100ns
> [   15.314258] sbsa-gwdt sbsa-gwdt.0: Initialized with 10s timeout @ 100000000
> Hz, action=0
> 
> And for the kernel build:
> $ more .config | grep NO_HZ
> CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=y
> # CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE is not set
> CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y
> # CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set
> $
> 
> Thanks,
> John
>>   kernel/irq/msi.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/irq/msi.c b/kernel/irq/msi.c
>> index 2bdfce5edafd..aa84ce84c2ec 100644
>> --- a/kernel/irq/msi.c
>> +++ b/kernel/irq/msi.c
>> @@ -818,6 +818,18 @@ static int msi_init_virq(struct irq_domain *domain, int
>> virq, unsigned int vflag
>>           irqd_clr_can_reserve(irqd);
>>           if (vflags & VIRQ_NOMASK_QUIRK)
>>               irqd_set_msi_nomask_quirk(irqd);
>> +
>> +        /*
>> +         * If the interrupt is managed but no CPU is available
>> +         * to service it, shut it down until better times.
>> +         */
>> +        if ((vflags & VIRQ_ACTIVATE) &&
>> +            irqd_affinity_is_managed(irqd) &&
>> +            !cpumask_intersects(irq_data_get_affinity_mask(irqd),
>> +                    cpu_online_mask)) {
>> +                irqd_set_managed_shutdown(irqd);
>> +                return 0;
>> +            }
>>       }
>>         if (!(vflags & VIRQ_ACTIVATE))
> 
> .