linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ahci: add 43-bit DMA address quirk for ASMedia ASM1061 controllers

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:19:07 +0100
From: Niklas Cassel <cassel@...nel.org>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@...tstofly.org>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ahci: add 43-bit DMA address quirk for ASMedia
 ASM1061 controllers

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 05:04:01PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> With one of the on-board ASM1061 AHCI controllers (1b21:0612) on an
> ASUSTeK Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI mainboard, a controller hang was
> observed that was immediately preceded by the following kernel
> messages:
> 
> [Thu Jan  4 23:12:54 2024] ahci 0000:28:00.0: Using 64-bit DMA addresses
> [Thu Jan  4 23:12:54 2024] ahci 0000:28:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0035 address=0x7fffff00000 flags=0x0000]
> [Thu Jan  4 23:12:54 2024] ahci 0000:28:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0035 address=0x7fffff00300 flags=0x0000]
> [Thu Jan  4 23:12:54 2024] ahci 0000:28:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0035 address=0x7fffff00380 flags=0x0000]
> [Thu Jan  4 23:12:54 2024] ahci 0000:28:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0035 address=0x7fffff00400 flags=0x0000]
> [Thu Jan  4 23:12:54 2024] ahci 0000:28:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0035 address=0x7fffff00680 flags=0x0000]
> [Thu Jan  4 23:12:54 2024] ahci 0000:28:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0035 address=0x7fffff00700 flags=0x0000]
> 
> The first message is produced by code in drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> which is accompanied by the following comment that seems to apply:
> 
>         /*
>          * Try to use all the 32-bit PCI addresses first. The original SAC vs.
>          * DAC reasoning loses relevance with PCIe, but enough hardware and
>          * firmware bugs are still lurking out there that it's safest not to
>          * venture into the 64-bit space until necessary.
>          *
>          * If your device goes wrong after seeing the notice then likely either
>          * its driver is not setting DMA masks accurately, the hardware has
>          * some inherent bug in handling >32-bit addresses, or not all the
>          * expected address bits are wired up between the device and the IOMMU.
>          */
> 
> Asking the ASM1061 on a discrete PCIe card to DMA from I/O virtual
> address 0xffffffff00000000 produces the following I/O page faults:
> 
> [Tue Jan 23 21:31:55 2024] vfio-pci 0000:07:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0021 address=0x7ff00000000 flags=0x0010]
> [Tue Jan 23 21:31:55 2024] vfio-pci 0000:07:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0021 address=0x7ff00000500 flags=0x0010]
> 
> Note that the upper 21 bits of the logged DMA address are zero.  (When
> asking a different PCIe device in the same PCIe slot to DMA to the
> same I/O virtual address, we do see all the upper 32 bits of the DMA
> address as 1, so this is not an issue with the chipset or IOMMU
> configuration on the test system.)
> 
> Also, hacking libahci to always set the upper 21 bits of all DMA
> addresses to 1 produces no discernible effect on the behavior of the
> ASM1061, and mkfs/mount/scrub/etc work as without this hack.
> 
> This all strongly suggests that the ASM1061 has a 43 bit DMA address
> limit, and this commit therefore adds a quirk to deal with this limit.
> 
> This issue probably applies to (some of) the other supported ASMedia
> parts as well, but we limit it to the PCI IDs known to refer to
> ASM1061 parts, as that's the only part we know for sure to be affected
> by this issue at this point.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/ZaZ2PIpEId-rl6jv@wantstofly.org/
> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@...tstofly.org>
> ---

Applied:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/libata/linux.git/log/?h=for-6.8-fixes