From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Olha Cherevyk <olha.cherevyk@gmail.com>,
iommu <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Recent swiotlb DMA_FROM_DEVICE fixes break ath9k-based AP
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:07:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qyr9t4e.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8a1cbf4-a521-78ec-1560-28d855e0913e@arm.com>
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> writes:
> On 2022-03-24 16:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 05:29:12PM +0100, Maxime Bizon wrote:
>>>> I'm looking into this; but in the interest of a speedy resolution of
>>>> the regression I would be in favour of merging that partial revert
>>>> and reinstating it if/when we identify (and fix) any bugs in ath9k :)
>>>
>>> This looks fishy:
>>>
>>> ath9k/recv.c
>>>
>>> /* We will now give hardware our shiny new allocated skb */
>>> new_buf_addr = dma_map_single(sc->dev, requeue_skb->data,
>>> common->rx_bufsize, dma_type);
>>> if (unlikely(dma_mapping_error(sc->dev, new_buf_addr))) {
>>> dev_kfree_skb_any(requeue_skb);
>>> goto requeue_drop_frag;
>>> }
>>>
>>> /* Unmap the frame */
>>> dma_unmap_single(sc->dev, bf->bf_buf_addr,
>>> common->rx_bufsize, dma_type);
>>>
>>> bf->bf_mpdu = requeue_skb;
>>> bf->bf_buf_addr = new_buf_addr;
>>
>> Creating a new mapping for the same buffer before unmapping the
>> previous one does looks rather bogus. But it does not fit the
>> pattern where revering the sync_single changes make the driver
>> work again.
>
> OK, you made me look :)
>
> Now that it's obvious what to look for, I can only conclude that during
> the stanza in ath_edma_get_buffers(), the device is still writing to the
> buffer while ownership has been transferred to the CPU, and whatever got
> written while ath9k_hw_process_rxdesc_edma() was running then gets wiped
> out by the subsequent sync_for_device, which currently resets the
> SWIOTLB slot to the state that sync_for_cpu copied out. By the letter of
> the DMA API that's not allowed, but on the other hand I'm not sure if we
> even have a good idiom for "I can't tell if the device has finished with
> this buffer or not unless I look at it" :/
Right, but is that sync_for_device call really needed? AFAICT, that
ath9k_hw_process_rxdesc_edma() invocation doesn't actually modify any of
the data when it returns EINPROGRESS, so could we just skip it? Like
the patch below? Or am I misunderstanding the semantics here?
-Toke
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
index 0c0624a3b40d..19244d4c0ada 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
@@ -647,12 +647,8 @@ static bool ath_edma_get_buffers(struct ath_softc *sc,
common->rx_bufsize, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
ret = ath9k_hw_process_rxdesc_edma(ah, rs, skb->data);
- if (ret == -EINPROGRESS) {
- /*let device gain the buffer again*/
- dma_sync_single_for_device(sc->dev, bf->bf_buf_addr,
- common->rx_bufsize, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+ if (ret == -EINPROGRESS)
return false;
- }
__skb_unlink(skb, &rx_edma->rx_fifo);
if (ret == -EINVAL) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-24 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-23 7:19 [REGRESSION] Recent swiotlb DMA_FROM_DEVICE fixes break ath9k-based AP Oleksandr Natalenko
2022-03-23 7:28 ` Kalle Valo
2022-03-23 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-23 19:06 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-23 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-23 20:54 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-24 5:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-24 10:25 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2022-03-24 11:05 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-24 14:27 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-03-24 16:29 ` Maxime Bizon
2022-03-24 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-24 16:52 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-24 17:07 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2022-03-24 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-24 21:14 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-03-25 10:25 ` Maxime Bizon
2022-03-25 11:27 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-25 23:38 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-26 16:05 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-03-26 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-26 22:38 ` David Laight
2022-03-26 22:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 16:25 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-03-25 16:45 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-25 18:13 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-03-25 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 19:14 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-25 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 19:26 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2022-03-25 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 19:35 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2022-03-25 20:37 ` Johannes Berg
2022-03-25 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 21:13 ` Johannes Berg
2022-03-25 21:40 ` David Laight
2022-03-25 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 22:41 ` David Laight
2022-03-27 3:15 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-28 9:48 ` Johannes Berg
2022-03-28 9:50 ` Johannes Berg
2022-03-28 9:57 ` Johannes Berg
2022-03-27 3:48 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-27 5:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-27 5:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-27 15:24 ` David Laight
2022-03-27 19:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-27 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-27 23:52 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-28 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-28 12:02 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-27 23:37 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-28 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 7:12 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2022-03-25 9:21 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-03-24 18:31 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-25 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-24 18:02 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-25 15:25 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-25 16:23 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-25 16:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-25 18:15 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-03-25 18:42 ` Robin Murphy
2022-03-25 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-28 6:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-28 8:15 ` David Laight
2022-03-30 12:11 ` Halil Pasic
2022-03-24 8:55 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
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