Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI: disable MSI/MSI-X before resetting

From: Alexander Duyck
Date: Fri May 12 2017 - 13:07:35 EST


On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Despite the claims in the associated comment block, it seems that
> clearing the command register is not enough to guarantee that no
> MSI interrupts get triggered during Function Level Reset. Through code
> instrumentation, I'm able to clearly trace cases like this:
>
> (0) reset a device:
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/xxx/reset
> (1) disable an MSI interrupt for device 'xxx' in a PCI reset handler
> (disable_irq())
> (2) pcie_flr() initiates reset:
> pcie_capability_set_word(dev, PCI_EXP_DEVCTL, PCI_EXP_DEVCTL_BCR_FLR));
> (3) about 0.5 ms later, kernel handles IRQ:
> -> __pci_msi_desc_mask_irq()
> -> pci_write_config_dword()

Is this an irq from the device being reset, or could this be an
interrupt from something else such as the root port?

> (4) this is well before the device is actually ready, and the system
> sees a bus abort
>
> Tested with MSI, but presumably MSI-X could have the same issue.
>
> Tested on Samsung Chromebook Plus, with RK3399 OP1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> RFC, because I'm not really sure this is the right approach, or if
> there's something else that's misconfigured or buggy.
>
> Note that right now, configuration space aborts trigger SError aborts
> (and panics) on RK3399, so this sort of problem is fatal. It's not clear
> to me if that's a spec violation (many other PCI controllers manage to
> mask such aborts), or an acceptable behavior. But FWIW, that means that
> polling behavior like in commit 5adecf817dd6 ("PCI: Wait for up to
> 1000ms after FLR reset") cannot work; the first read when the device is
> not ready will cause a panic.

I'm adding Alex Williamson since he is the author of the patch you
call out here. It is also possible that he may have already submitted
a patch somewhere to fix something like this that I might not be aware
of.

Odds are what probably needs to happen is that the we should probably
take the same steps in to disable master abort mode that we do in
pci_scan_bridge. That way if we don't get a response from the device
in time we don't trigger a master abort which will then feed back up
the bus and cause other issues. I'll see if I can put together a quick
patch to address the issue if you are up for testing it.

> ---
> drivers/pci/pci.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index b01bd5bba8e6..861a3b2d7026 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -4156,6 +4156,17 @@ static void pci_dev_save_and_disable(struct pci_dev *dev)
> pci_set_power_state(dev, PCI_D0);
>
> pci_save_state(dev);
> +
> + /*
> + * Disable MSI/MSI-X before resetting. Some devices have been found to
> + * trigger interrupts while in the middle of Function Level Reset. The
> + * MSI/MSI-X state will get restored after we reset.
> + */
> + if (dev->msi_enabled)
> + pci_msi_set_enable(dev, 0);
> + if (dev->msix_enabled)
> + pci_msix_clear_and_set_ctrl(dev, PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE, 0);
> +

So if your device is still issuing MSI or MSI-X interrupts after
completing the line below which overwrites the command register then
there is definitely an issue in the hardware. All bus master
transactions should have been flushed out and blocked after clearing
the bus master enable bit and verifying hat the transactions pending
bit is cleared in the status register.

> /*
> * Disable the device by clearing the Command register, except for
> * INTx-disable which is set. This not only disables MMIO and I/O port
> --
> 2.13.0.rc2.291.g57267f2277-goog
>