Re: [PATCH 1/2] IB/hfi1: Try slot reset before secondary bus reset

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

[+cc Alex]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 06:21:43PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 6/19/2018 5:43 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >> Hotplug driver removes the device from system when a link down interrupt
> >> is observed and performs re-enumeration when link up interrupt is observed.
> >>
> >> This conflicts with what this code is trying to do. Try secondary bus reset
> >> only if pci_reset_slot() fails/unsupported.
> > Hi Sinan,
> > 
> > We had a bunch of discussion here but not sure we ever reached a
> > consensus.  It did seem like we'd like to avoid putting hotplug
> > knowledge in drivers, though.  What do you think the path forward is?
> > 
> 
> There are multiple issues. 
> 
> We discussed the need for a retrain API on this thread. However,
> retrain API may not be enough for this particular usage as the
> device might need a full link training sequence following firmware
> load including a hot reset message. I don't think we can remove the
> bus reset usage in this code.
> 
> I'd like to start with a small one to address your comment here.
> 
> "I think my concern is that knowledge about this reset/link
> down/hotplug issue is leaking out and we'll end up with different
> reset interfaces that may or may not result in hotplug events.  This
> seems like a confusing API because it's hard to explain which
> interface a driver should use."
> 
> I'm thinking of removing pci_reset_slot() and pci_try_reset_slot()
> functions as an exported API and fold them into pci_reset_bus() and
> pci_try_reset_bus() API respectively.

pci_try_reset_slot() and pci_try_reset_bus() are both used by VFIO,
but I don't see any callers of either pci_reset_slot() or
pci_reset_bus().

I suspect what happened was that we added pci_reset_slot(), used it
in VFIO, found a deadlock, added pci_try_reset_slot(), and converted
VFIO to use pci_try_reset_slot() to fix the deadlock, leaving no
callers of pci_reset_slot() itself.

  090a3c5322e9 ("PCI: Add pci_reset_slot() and pci_reset_bus()")
  8b27ee60bfd6 ("vfio-pci: PCI hot reset interface")
  61cf16d8bd38 ("PCI: Add pci_try_reset_function(), pci_try_reset_slot(), pci_try_reset_bus()")
  890ed578df82 ("vfio-pci: Use pci "try" reset interface")

I *think* pci_try_reset_slot() is already equivalent to pci_reset_slot()
except that it returns -EAGAIN if it can't lock the slot.  But if you
remove pci_reset_slot(), you could rename pci_try_reset_slot() to
pci_reset_slot().  It doesn't seem like keeping "try" in the function
name would be necessary.

> This is what happens when you insert a fatal error to a hotplug
> slot. See multiple link up/down messages.
> 
> /_#_[__333.699731]_pcieport_0001:00:00.0:_AER:_Uncorrected_(Fatal)_error_received:_id=0000
> [  333.748116] pcieport 0001:00:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, id
> [  333.816044] pcieport 0001:00:00.0:   device [17cb:0404] error status/mask=00040000/00400000
> [  333.871581] pcieport 0001:00:00.0:    [18] Malformed TLP          (First)
> [  333.914675] pcieport 0001:00:00.0:   TLP Header: 40000001 000000ff 00000000 00000000
> [  333.968397] pciehp 0001:00:00.0:pcie004: Slot(2): Link Down
> [  334.043234] iommu: Removing device 0001:01:00.4 from group 0
> [  334.095952] iommu: Removing device 0001:01:00.3 from group 0
> [  334.144644] iommu: Removing device 0001:01:00.2 from group 0
> [  334.194653] iommu: Removing device 0001:01:00.1 from group 0
> [  334.243564] pciehp 0001:00:00.0:pcie004: Slot(2): Link Up
> [  334.282556] iommu: Removing device 0001:01:00.0 from group 0
> [  334.330994] pciehp 0001:00:00.0:pcie004: Slot(2): Link Up event queued; currently getting powered off
> [  334.890587] pciehp 0001:00:00.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x13f1 (issued 282900 msec ago)
> [  335.070190] pciehp 0001:00:00.0:pcie004: Slot(2): Link Down
> [  335.106960] pciehp 0001:00:00.0:pcie004: Slot(2): Link Down event queued; currently getting powered on
> [  335.191119] pcieport 0001:00:00.0: AER: Device recovery failed
> [  346.590153] pciehp 0001:00:00.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x17f1 (issued 10250 msec ago)
> 
> As a suggestion:
> 
> 1. If the device belongs to a slot, do slot reset. 
> 2. Otherwise, do bus reset.

I assume this refers to pci_try_reset_slot() and pci_try_reset_bus(),
which are only used by VFIO in vfio_pci_ioctl() and
vfio_pci_try_bus_reset().

Both of those callers use pci_probe_reset_slot() to decide whether to
use pci_try_reset_slot() or pci_try_reset_bus().  If you're suggesting
to pull that slot/bus distinction into the PCI core somehow, that
would be fine with me, although VFIO does use the
pci_probe_reset_slot() result for other purposes in those functions.

> Since Oza's DPC/AER patch to refactor fatal error handling, both
> hotplug driver and AER/DPC driver will try removing devices and
> perform enumeration on link events/AER events.
> 
> Perfect environment for race condition without a change.

Yeah, this looks like a bit of a mess.  I guess we're getting two
interrupts (AER interrupt and hotplug interrupt) and we should
coordinate their handling somehow.  I don't have a proposal.  This
race could happen independent of the device reset paths, of course.

Bjorn