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Message-ID: <2c2ecd15-72c7-ced9-8092-eb375a426cd8@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:02:00 -0500
From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@...il.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 155/338] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register
read/writes to assure ordering
Hi,
I would kill this commit too, since the final conclusion was that
underlying problem was a compiler bug (which has now been fixed).
Thanks,
On 4/14/22 08:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 8d3ea3d402db94b61075617e71b67459a714a502 ]
>
> GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
> aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
> this is causing problems like:
>
> [ 210.074549] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 210.079223] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enabcm6e4ei0 (bcmgenet): transmit queue 1 timed out
> [ 210.086717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:529 dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.095044] Modules linked in: genet(E) nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat]
> [ 210.146561] ACPI CPPC: PCC check channel failed for ss: 0. ret=-110
> [ 210.146927] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G E 5.17.0-rc7G12+ #58
> [ 210.153226] CPPC Cpufreq:cppc_scale_freq_workfn: failed to read perf counters
> [ 210.161349] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4 Model B/Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, BIOS EDK2-DEV 02/08/2022
> [ 210.161353] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> [ 210.161358] pc : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.161364] lr : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.161368] sp : ffff8000080a3a40
> [ 210.161370] x29: ffff8000080a3a40 x28: ffffcd425af87000 x27: ffff8000080a3b20
> [ 210.205150] x26: ffffcd425aa00000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffcd425af8ec08
> [ 210.212321] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffffcd425af87000 x21: ffff55b142688000
> [ 210.219491] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff55b1426884c8 x18: ffffffffffffffff
> [ 210.226661] x17: 64656d6974203120 x16: 0000000000000001 x15: 6d736e617274203a
> [ 210.233831] x14: 2974656e65676d63 x13: ffffcd4259c300d8 x12: ffffcd425b07d5f0
> [ 210.241001] x11: 00000000ffffffff x10: ffffcd425b07d5f0 x9 : ffffcd4258bdad9c
> [ 210.248171] x8 : 00000000ffffdfff x7 : 000000000000003f x6 : 0000000000000000
> [ 210.255341] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000001000
> [ 210.262511] x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : 0000000000000005 x0 : 0000000000000044
> [ 210.269682] Call trace:
> [ 210.272133] dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.275811] call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x15c
> [ 210.279489] __run_timers.part.0+0x288/0x310
> [ 210.283777] run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
> [ 210.287716] __do_softirq+0x128/0x360
> [ 210.291392] __irq_exit_rcu+0x138/0x140
> [ 210.295243] irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x30
> [ 210.298745] el1_interrupt+0x38/0x54
> [ 210.302334] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
> [ 210.306445] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
> [ 210.309857] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x2c
> [ 210.313445] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x140
> [ 210.317470] cpuidle_idle_call+0x14c/0x1a0
> [ 210.321584] do_idle+0xb0/0x100
> [ 210.324737] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x8c
> [ 210.328675] secondary_start_kernel+0xe4/0x110
> [ 210.333138] __secondary_switched+0x94/0x98
>
> The assumption when these were relaxed seems to be that device memory
> would be mapped non reordering, and that other constructs
> (spinlocks/etc) would provide the barriers to assure that packet data
> and in memory rings/queues were ordered with respect to device
> register reads/writes. This itself seems a bit sketchy, but the real
> problem with GCC12 is that it is moving the actual reads/writes around
> at will as though they were independent operations when in truth they
> are not, but the compiler can't know that. When looking at the
> assembly dumps for many of these routines its possible to see very
> clean, but not strictly in program order operations occurring as the
> compiler would be free to do if these weren't actually register
> reads/write operations.
>
> Its possible to suppress the timeout with a liberal bit of dma_mb()'s
> sprinkled around but the device still seems unable to reliably
> send/receive data. A better plan is to use the safer readl/writel
> everywhere.
>
> Since this partially reverts an older commit, which notes the use of
> the relaxed variants for performance reasons. I would suggest that
> any performance problems with this commit are targeted at relaxing only
> the performance critical code paths after assuring proper barriers.
>
> Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
> Reported-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
> Acked-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@...il.com>
> Tested-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310045358.224350-1-jeremy.linton@arm.com
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> index d4be107ea4cd..c78b687a1443 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static inline void bcmgenet_writel(u32 value, void __iomem *offset)
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN))
> __raw_writel(value, offset);
> else
> - writel_relaxed(value, offset);
> + writel(value, offset);
> }
>
> static inline u32 bcmgenet_readl(void __iomem *offset)
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static inline u32 bcmgenet_readl(void __iomem *offset)
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN))
> return __raw_readl(offset);
> else
> - return readl_relaxed(offset);
> + return readl(offset);
> }
>
> static inline void dmadesc_set_length_status(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv,
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