linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: fix calling mlx5_cmd

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Message-ID: <20230928175959.GU1642130@unreal>
Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:59:59 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Shay Drory <shayd@...dia.com>,
        Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: fix calling mlx5_cmd_init() before DMA
 mask is set

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 03:55:47PM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> Since commit 06cd555f73ca ("net/mlx5: split mlx5_cmd_init() to probe and
> reload routines") mlx5_cmd_init() is called in mlx5_mdev_init() which is
> called in probe_one() before mlx5_pci_init(). This is a problem because
> mlx5_pci_init() is where the DMA and coherent mask is set but
> mlx5_cmd_init() already does a dma_alloc_coherent(). Thus a DMA
> allocation is done during probe before the correct mask is set. This
> causes probe to fail initialization of the cmdif SW structs on s390x
> after that is converted to the common dma-iommu code. This is because on
> s390x DMA addresses below 4 GiB are reserved on current machines and
> unlike the old s390x specific DMA API implementation common code
> enforces DMA masks. Fix this by switching the order of the
> mlx5_mdev_init() and mlx5_pci_init() in probe_one().
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/cfc9e9128ed5571d2e36421e347301057662a09e.camel@linux.ibm.com/
> Fixes: 06cd555f73ca ("net/mlx5: split mlx5_cmd_init() to probe and reload routines")
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Note: I ran into this while testing the linked series for converting
> s390x to use dma-iommu. The existing s390x specific DMA API
> implementation doesn't respect DMA masks and is thus not affected
> despite of course also only supporting DMA addresses above 4 GiB.
> That said ConnectX VFs are the primary users of native PCI on s390x and
> we'd really like to get the DMA API conversion into v6.7 so this has
> high priority for us.
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> index 15561965d2af..06744dedd928 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> @@ -1908,10 +1908,6 @@ static int probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
>  		goto adev_init_err;
>  	}
>  
> -	err = mlx5_mdev_init(dev, prof_sel);
> -	if (err)
> -		goto mdev_init_err;
> -
>  	err = mlx5_pci_init(dev, pdev, id);
>  	if (err) {
>  		mlx5_core_err(dev, "mlx5_pci_init failed with error code %d\n",
> @@ -1919,6 +1915,10 @@ static int probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
>  		goto pci_init_err;
>  	}
>  
> +	err = mlx5_mdev_init(dev, prof_sel);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto mdev_init_err;
> +

I had something different in mind as I'm worry that call to pci_enable_device()
in mlx5_pci_init() before we finished FW command interface initialization is a bit
premature.

What about the following patch?

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
index 15561965d2af..31f1d701116a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
@@ -905,12 +905,6 @@ static int mlx5_pci_init(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, struct pci_dev *pdev,
 
        pci_set_master(pdev);
 
-       err = set_dma_caps(pdev);
-       if (err) {
-               mlx5_core_err(dev, "Failed setting DMA capabilities mask, aborting\n");
-               goto err_clr_master;
-       }
-
        if (pci_enable_atomic_ops_to_root(pdev, PCI_EXP_DEVCAP2_ATOMIC_COMP32) &&
            pci_enable_atomic_ops_to_root(pdev, PCI_EXP_DEVCAP2_ATOMIC_COMP64) &&
            pci_enable_atomic_ops_to_root(pdev, PCI_EXP_DEVCAP2_ATOMIC_COMP128))
@@ -1908,9 +1902,15 @@ static int probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
                goto adev_init_err;
        }
 
+       err = set_dma_caps(pdev);
+       if (err) {
+               mlx5_core_err(dev, "Failed setting DMA capabilities mask, aborting\n");
+               goto dma_cap_err;
+       }
+
        err = mlx5_mdev_init(dev, prof_sel);
        if (err)
-               goto mdev_init_err;
+               goto dma_cap_err;
 
        err = mlx5_pci_init(dev, pdev, id);
        if (err) {
@@ -1942,7 +1942,7 @@ static int probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
        mlx5_pci_close(dev);
 pci_init_err:
        mlx5_mdev_uninit(dev);
-mdev_init_err:
+dma_cap_err:
        mlx5_adev_idx_free(dev->priv.adev_idx);
 adev_init_err:
        mlx5_devlink_free(devlink);

Thanks