Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] PCI/ERR: Split the fatal and non-fatal error recovery handling

["Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan" <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>]

On 10/14/20 6:58 PM, Ethan Zhao wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 1:06 AM Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
> <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
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>> On 10/14/20 8:07 AM, Ethan Zhao wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:00 PM Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
>>> <sathyanarayanan.nkuppuswamy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Commit bdb5ac85777d ("PCI/ERR: Handle fatal error recovery")
>>>> merged fatal and non-fatal error recovery paths, and also made
>>>> recovery code depend on hotplug handler for "remove affected
>>>> device + rescan" support. But this change also complicated the
>>>> error recovery path and which in turn led to the following
>>>> issues.
>>>>
>>>> 1. We depend on hotplug handler for removing the affected
>>>> devices/drivers on DLLSC LINK down event (on DPC event
>>>> trigger) and DPC handler for handling the error recovery. Since
>>>> both handlers operate on same set of affected devices, it leads
>>>> to race condition, which in turn leads to  NULL pointer
>>>> exceptions or error recovery failures.You can find more details
>>>> about this issue in following link.
>>>>
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20201007113158.48933-1-haifeng.zhao@intel.com/T/#t
>>>>
>>>> 2. For non-hotplug capable devices fatal (DPC) error recovery
>>>> is currently broken. Current fatal error recovery implementation
>>>> relies on PCIe hotplug (pciehp) handler for detaching and
>>>> re-enumerating the affected devices/drivers. So when dealing with
>>>> non-hotplug capable devices, recovery code does not restore the state
>>>> of the affected devices correctly. You can find more details about
>>>> this issue in the following links.
>>>>
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20200527083130.4137-1-Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com/
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/12115.1588207324@famine/
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/0e6f89cd6b9e4a72293cc90fafe93487d7c2d295.1585000084.git.sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com/
>>>>
>>>> In order to fix the above two issues, we should stop relying on hotplug
>>>     Yes, it doesn't rely on hotplug handler to remove and rescan the device,
>>> but it couldn't prevent hotplug drivers from doing another replicated
>>> removal/rescanning.
>>> it doesn't make sense to leave another useless removal/rescanning there.
>>> Maybe that's why these two paths were merged to one and made it rely on
>>> hotplug.
>> No, as per PCIe spec, hotplug and DPC has no functional dependency. Hence
>> depending on it to handle some of its recovery function is in-correct and
>> would lead to issues in non-hotplug capable platforms (which is true
>> currently).
>>>

>   pci_lock_rescan_remove() is global lock for PCIe, the mal-functional
>   device's port holds this lock, it prevents the whole system from doing
>   hot-plug operation.
It does not prevent the hotplug operation, but it might delay it. Since both
DPC and hotplug operates on same set of devices, it must be synchronized.
>   Though pciehp is not so hot/scalable and performance critical, but there
>   is per cpu thread to handle hot-plug operation. synchronize all threads
>   make them walk backwards for scalability.
DPC events does not happen in high frequency. So I don't think we should
worry about the performance here. Even hotplug handler will hold this lock
when adding/removing the devices. So adding/removing devices is a serialized
operation.
> 

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>> Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
>> Linux Kernel Developer

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