Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add no-D3 quirk for Mellanox ConnectX-[45]

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>]

On 09/01/2019 16:30, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 04:09:02PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 21:01 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>
>>>> In a very cryptic way that requires manual parsing using non-public
>>>> docs sadly but yes. From the look of it, it's a completion timeout.
>>>>
>>>> Looks to me like we don't get a response to a config space access
>>>> during the change of D state. I don't know if it's the write of the D3
>>>> state itself or the read back though (it's probably detected on the
>>>> read back or a subsequent read, but that doesn't tell me which specific
>>>> one failed).
>>>
>>> If it is just one card doing it (again, check you have latest
>>> firmware) I wonder if it is a sketchy PCI-E electrical link that is
>>> causing a long re-training cycle? Can you tell if the PCI-E link is
>>> permanently gone or does it eventually return?
>>
>> No, it's 100% reproducable on systems with that specific card model,
>> not card instance, and maybe different systems/cards as well, I'll let
>> David & Alexey comment further on that.
> 
> Well, it's 100% reproducable on a particular model of system
> (garrison) with a particular model of card.  I've had some suggestions
> that it fails with some other systems card card models, but nothing
> confirmed - the one other system model I've been able to try, which
> also had a newer card model didn't reproduce the problem.

I have just moved the "Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family
[ConnectX-4]" from garrison to firestone machine and there it does not
produce an EEH, with the same kernel and skiboot (both upstream + my
debug). Hm. I cannot really blame the card but I cannot see what could
cause the difference in skiboot either. I even tried disabling NPU so
garrison would look like firestone, still EEH'ing.



>>> Does the card work in Gen 3 when it starts? Is there any indication of
>>> PCI-E link errors?
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>>> Everytime or sometimes?
>>>
>>> POWER 8 firmware is good? If the link does eventually come back, is
>>> the POWER8's D3 resumption timeout long enough?
>>>
>>> If this doesn't lead to an obvious conclusion you'll probably need to
>>> connect to IBM's Mellanox support team to get more information from
>>> the card side.
>>
>> We are IBM :-) So far, it seems to be that the card is doing something
>> not quite right, but we don't know what. We might need to engage
>> Mellanox themselves.
> 
> Possibly.  On the other hand, I've had it reported that this is a
> software regression at least with downstream red hat kernels.  I
> haven't yet been able to eliminate factors that might be confusing
> that, or try to find a working version upstream.

Do you have tarballs handy? I'd diff...


-- 
Alexey