Message-ID: <0ad762f2-5acb-cfd1-efca-ff83f97f978d@quicinc.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:59:16 -0600
From:   Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@...cinc.com>
To:     Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>
CC:     Qiang Yu <quic_qianyu@...cinc.com>, <quic_hemantk@...cinc.com>,
        <loic.poulain@...aro.org>, <mhi@...ts.linux.dev>,
        <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <quic_cang@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bus: mhi: Disable IRQs instead of freeing them during
 power down

On 6/16/2022 2:59 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 09:53:34AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>> On 6/15/2022 3:16 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 07:07:02AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>>>> On 6/12/2022 7:48 PM, Qiang Yu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/10/2022 10:00 PM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/9/2022 9:21 PM, Qiang Yu wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/9/2022 9:54 PM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 6/9/2022 7:43 AM, Qiang Yu wrote:
>>>>>>>>> EP tends to read MSI address/data once and cache them
>>>>>>>>> after BME is set.
>>>>>>>>> So host should avoid changing MSI address/data after BME is set.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In pci reset function, host invokes free_irq(), which also clears MSI
>>>>>>>>> address/data in EP's PCIe config space. If the invalid address/data
>>>>>>>>> are cached and used by EP, MSI triggered by EP wouldn't be received by
>>>>>>>>> host, because an invalid MSI data is sent to an invalid MSI address.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> To fix this issue, after host runs request_irq() successfully during
>>>>>>>>> mhi driver probe, let's invoke enable_irq()/disable_irq() instead of
>>>>>>>>> request_irq()/free_irq() when we want to power on and power down MHI.
>>>>>>>>> Meanwhile, Host should invoke free_irq() when mhi host driver is
>>>>>>>>> removed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't think this works for hotplug, nor cases where there
>>>>>>>> are multiple MHI devices on the system.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The EP shouldn't be caching this information for multiple
>>>>>>>> reasons. Masking the MSIs, disabling the MSIs, changing the
>>>>>>>> address when the affinity changes, etc.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It really feels like we are solving the problem in the wrong place.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Right now, this gets a NACK from me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After free_irq(), MSI is still enabled but MSI address and data
>>>>>>> are cleared. So there is a chance that device initiates MSI
>>>>>>> using zero address. How to fix this race conditions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On what system is MSI still enabled?  I just removed the AIC100
>>>>>> controller on an random x86 system, and lspci is indicating MSIs are
>>>>>> disabled -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=32/32 Maskable+ 64bit+
>>>>>
>>>>> system: Ubuntu18.04, 5.4.0-89-generic,  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @
>>>>> 3.40GHz
>>>>>
>>>>> After removing MHI driver, I also see MSI enable is cleared.  But I
>>>>> don't think free_irq clears it. I add log before free_irq and after
>>>>> free_irq as following show:
>>>>>
>>>>> [62777.625111] msi cap before free irq
>>>>> [62777.625125] msi control=0x1bb, address=0xfee00318, data=0x0
>>>>> [62777.625301] msi cap after free irq
>>>>> [62777.625313] msi control=0x1bb, address=0x0, data=0x0
>>>>> [62777.625496] mhi-pci-generic 0000:01:00.0: mhi_pci_remove end of line,
>>>>> block 90 secs.
>>>>> # lspci -vvs 01:00.0
>>>>>            Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=8/32 Maskable+ 64bit+
>>>>>                    Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
>>>>>                    Masking: ffffffff  Pending: 00000000
>>>>
>>>> At this point, the MSI functionality is still enabled, but every MSI is
>>>> masked out (Masking), so per the PCIe spec, the endpoint may not trigger a
>>>> MSI to the host.  The device advertises that it supports maskable MSIs
>>>> (Maskable+), so this is appropiate.
>>>>
>>>> If your device can still send a MSI at this point, then it violates the PCIe
>>>> spec.
>>>>
>>>> disable_irq() will not help you with this as it will do the same thing.
>>>>
>>>> I still think you are trying to fix an issue in the wrong location (host vs
>>>> EP), and causing additional issues by doing so.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Irrespective of caching the MSI data in endpoint, I'd like to get rid of
>>> request_irq/free_irq during the mhi_{power_down/power_up} time. As like the MHI
>>> endpoint stack, we should just do disable/enable irq. Because, the MHI device
>>> may go down several times while running and we do not want to deallocate the
>>> IRQs all the time. And if the device gets removed, ultimately the MHI driver
>>> will get removed and we are fine while loading it back (even if MSI count
>>> changes).
>>>
>>> I didn't had time to look into the patch in detail but I'm in favour of
>>> accepting the proposal.
>>>
>>> @Jeff: Any specific issue you are seeing with hotplug etc...?
>>
>> Perhaps I'm getting confused by the commit text of this change.
>>
>> The issue described is that we free the irq, and then the EP sends a MSI,
>> and the host doesn't receive it.  To me, that is expected.  The host doesn't
>> care about the irq anymore because it freed it, therefore it would be
>> expected that the host doesn't receive the irq.  So, the described issue is
>> not an issue since it is expected behavior from what I can tell.
>>
>> The proposed fix, is to disable the interrupts, and not free them until the
>> driver is removed.  I interpret removing the driver as "rmmod mhi".  Based
>> on this, the problem I see is a scenario where we have N devices in a
>> system, and one device is hotplugged.  On hotplug, we would want to clean up
>> all resources (free irq), but according to the description, we need to rmmod
>> mhi, which is both not automatic and also affects the other N-1 devices
>> which are presumed to be operational.
> 
> No. When the PCI device gets removed during runtime, the remove() callback will
> get called with relevant "struct pci_dev" and that should take care of all
> resource cleanup for that particular device (including free_irq).

That is what I expected, so I was confused.  Seems like we are on the 
same page now.

> You do not need to manually rmmod the driver as that will be done by the
> hotplug driver when there are no devices making use of it. And yes, the commit
> message needs to be changed. >
>>
>> Now, if we throw all of that out the window, and say that the goal is to
>> register the irqs when the controller is registered, free them when the
>> controller is unregistered, and enable/disable based on power up/down as a
>> optimization, that could be sane.  If that is what this change is attempting
>> to do, it is not what the commit text describes.
>>
>> Under the assumption that you want the optimization I just described, I will
>> re-review the code next week when I get back from my travel. Assuming the
>> implementation is good (other than what I've already pointed out), I think
>> the commit text needs to be rewritten.
>>
>> Does that clarify things for you?
> 
> Yep!

Reviewed, with additional comments.  I guess I remove my NACK, but there 
is a lot to address with v2.

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