linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] PCI: Improve PCIe Capability RMW concurrency control

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Message-ID: <20230810161711.GA33938@bhelgaas>
Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:17:11 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@...ux.com>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dean Luick <dean.luick@...nelisnetworks.com>,
        Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] PCI: Improve PCIe Capability RMW concurrency
 control

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 03:04:52PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> PCI Express Capability RMW accessors don't properly protect against
> concurrent access. Link Control Register is written by a number of
> things in the kernel in a RMW fashion without any concurrency control.
> This could in the unlucky case lead to losing one of the updates. One
> of the most obvious path which can race with most of the other LNKCTL
> RMW operations seems to be ASPM policy sysfs write which triggers
> LNKCTL update. Similarly, Root Control Register can be concurrently
> accessed by AER and PME.
> 
> Make pcie_capability_clear_and_set_word() (and other RMW accessors that
> call it) to use a per device spinlock to protect the RMW operations to
> the Capability Registers that require locking. Convert open-coded
> LNKCTL RMW operations to use pcie_capability_clear_and_set_word() to
> benefit from the locking.
> 
> There's also a related series which improves ASPM service driver and
> device driver coordination by removing out-of-band ASPM state
> management from device drivers (which will remove some of the code
> fragments changed by this series but it has higher regression
> potential which is why it seems prudent to do these changes in two
> steps):
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20230602114751.19671-1-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com/T/#t
> 
> v5:
> - Remove reversed logic from a conditional
> - Use a variable for CCC setup
> 
> v4:
> - Rebased on top of pci/main
> - Added patch to update documentation
> 
> v3:
> - Split link retraining change off from ASPM patch & reorder it earlier
> - Adjust changelog to take into account the move of link retraining
>   code into PCI core and no longer refer to ASPM (currently in
>   pci/enumeration branch)
> - based on top of pci/main
> 
> v2:
> - Keep the RMW ops caller API the same
> - Make pcie_capability_clear_and_set_word() a wrapper that uses
>   locked/unlocked variant based on the capability reg
> - Extracted LNKCTL2 changes out from this series to keep this purely
>   a series which fixes something (LNKCTL2 RMW lock is necessary only
>   when PCIe BW control is introduced).
> - Added Fixes tags (it's a bit rathole but yeah, they're there now).
> - Renamed cap_lock to pcie_cap_lock
> - Changed ath1* to clear the ASPMC field before setting it
> 
> Ilpo Järvinen (11):
>   PCI: Add locking to RMW PCI Express Capability Register accessors
>   PCI: Make link retraining use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   PCI: pciehp: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   PCI/ASPM: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   drm/amdgpu: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   drm/radeon: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   net/mlx5: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   wifi: ath11k: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   wifi: ath12k: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   wifi: ath10k: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCTL
>   PCI: Document the Capability accessor RMW improvements
> 
>  Documentation/PCI/pciebus-howto.rst           | 14 ++++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/cik.c              | 36 +++++-------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/si.c               | 36 +++++-------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.c                  | 36 +++++-------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/si.c                   | 37 +++++--------------
>  .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw_reset.c    |  9 +----
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c         |  9 +++--
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c         | 10 +++--
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/pci.c         | 10 +++--
>  drivers/pci/access.c                          | 20 ++++++++--
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c              | 12 ++----
>  drivers/pci/pci.c                             |  8 +---
>  drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c                       | 30 +++++++--------
>  drivers/pci/probe.c                           |  1 +
>  include/linux/pci.h                           | 34 ++++++++++++++++-
>  15 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)

Applied to pci/pcie-rmw for v6.6, thanks!

I removed the stable tags because we don't know of any actual problems
these fix.

Bjorn