[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Don't enforce MSI affinity with kdump

Greg Kurz groug at kaod.org
Sat Feb 13 03:41:32 AEDT 2021


Depending on the number of online CPUs in the original kernel, it is
likely for CPU #0 to be offline in a kdump kernel. The associated IRQs
in the affinity mappings provided by irq_create_affinity_masks() are
thus not started by irq_startup(), as per-design with managed IRQs.

This can be a problem with multi-queue block devices driven by blk-mq :
such a non-started IRQ is very likely paired with the single queue
enforced by blk-mq during kdump (see blk_mq_alloc_tag_set()). This
causes the device to remain silent and likely hangs the guest at
some point.

This is a regression caused by commit 9ea69a55b3b9 ("powerpc/pseries:
Pass MSI affinity to irq_create_mapping()"). Note that this only happens
with the XIVE interrupt controller because XICS has a workaround to bypass
affinity, which is activated during kdump with the "noirqdistrib" kernel
parameter.

The issue comes from a combination of factors:
- discrepancy between the number of queues detected by the multi-queue
  block driver, that was used to create the MSI vectors, and the single
  queue mode enforced later on by blk-mq because of kdump (i.e. keeping
  all queues fixes the issue)
- CPU#0 offline (i.e. kdump always succeed with CPU#0)

Given that I couldn't reproduce on x86, which seems to always have CPU#0
online even during kdump, I'm not sure where this should be fixed. Hence
going for another approach : fine-grained affinity is for performance
and we don't really care about that during kdump. Simply revert to the
previous working behavior of ignoring affinity masks in this case only.

Fixes: 9ea69a55b3b9 ("powerpc/pseries: Pass MSI affinity to irq_create_mapping()")
Cc: lvivier at redhat.com
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug at kaod.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
index b3ac2455faad..29d04b83288d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
@@ -458,8 +458,28 @@ static int rtas_setup_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *pdev, int nvec_in, int type)
 			return hwirq;
 		}
 
-		virq = irq_create_mapping_affinity(NULL, hwirq,
-						   entry->affinity);
+		/*
+		 * Depending on the number of online CPUs in the original
+		 * kernel, it is likely for CPU #0 to be offline in a kdump
+		 * kernel. The associated IRQs in the affinity mappings
+		 * provided by irq_create_affinity_masks() are thus not
+		 * started by irq_startup(), as per-design for managed IRQs.
+		 * This can be a problem with multi-queue block devices driven
+		 * by blk-mq : such a non-started IRQ is very likely paired
+		 * with the single queue enforced by blk-mq during kdump (see
+		 * blk_mq_alloc_tag_set()). This causes the device to remain
+		 * silent and likely hangs the guest at some point.
+		 *
+		 * We don't really care for fine-grained affinity when doing
+		 * kdump actually : simply ignore the pre-computed affinity
+		 * masks in this case and let the default mask with all CPUs
+		 * be used when creating the IRQ mappings.
+		 */
+		if (is_kdump_kernel())
+			virq = irq_create_mapping(NULL, hwirq);
+		else
+			virq = irq_create_mapping_affinity(NULL, hwirq,
+							   entry->affinity);
 
 		if (!virq) {
 			pr_debug("rtas_msi: Failed mapping hwirq %d\n", hwirq);
-- 
2.26.2



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