[PATCH] powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics when rebooted with a frozen PE
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Apr 19 16:12:46 AEST 2024
Gaurav Batra <gbatra at linux.ibm.com> writes:
> At the time of LPAR reboot, partition firmware provides Open Firmware
> property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI
> bus the PE is attached to.
AFAICS you're actually describing a bug that happens during boot *up*?
Describing it as "reboot" makes me think you're talking about the
shutdown path. I think that will confuse people, me at least :)
cheers
> There are execptions where the partition firmware might not provide this
> property for the PE at the time of LPAR reboot. One of the scenario is
> where the firmware has frozen the PE due to some error conditions. This
> PE is frozen for 24 hours or unless the whole system is reinitialized.
>
> Within this time frame, if the LPAR is rebooted, the frozen PE will be
> presented to the LPAR but ibm,dma-window property could be missing.
>
> Today, under these circumstances, the LPAR oopses with NULL pointer
> dereference, when configuring the PCI bus the PE is attached to.
>
> BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x000000c8
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001024c0
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 7 [#1]
> LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
> Modules linked in:
> Supported: Yes
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.4.0-150600.9-default #1
> Hardware name: IBM,9043-MRX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NM1060_023) hv:phyp pSeries
> NIP: c0000000001024c0 LR: c0000000001024b0 CTR: c000000000102450
> REGS: c0000000037db5c0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (6.4.0-150600.9-default)
> MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28000822 XER: 00000000
> CFAR: c00000000010254c DAR: 00000000000000c8 DSISR: 00080000 IRQMASK: 0
> ...
> NIP [c0000000001024c0] pci_dma_bus_setup_pSeriesLP+0x70/0x2a0
> LR [c0000000001024b0] pci_dma_bus_setup_pSeriesLP+0x60/0x2a0
> Call Trace:
> pci_dma_bus_setup_pSeriesLP+0x60/0x2a0 (unreliable)
> pcibios_setup_bus_self+0x1c0/0x370
> __of_scan_bus+0x2f8/0x330
> pcibios_scan_phb+0x280/0x3d0
> pcibios_init+0x88/0x12c
> do_one_initcall+0x60/0x320
> kernel_init_freeable+0x344/0x3e4
> kernel_init+0x34/0x1d0
> ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
>
> Fixes: b1fc44eaa9ba ("pseries/iommu/ddw: Fix kdump to work in absence of ibm,dma-window")
> Signed-off-by: Gaurav Batra <gbatra at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
> index e8c4129697b1..e808d5b1fa49 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
> @@ -786,8 +786,16 @@ static void pci_dma_bus_setup_pSeriesLP(struct pci_bus *bus)
> * parent bus. During reboot, there will be ibm,dma-window property to
> * define DMA window. For kdump, there will at least be default window or DDW
> * or both.
> + * There is an exception to the above. In case the PE goes into frozen
> + * state, firmware may not provide ibm,dma-window property at the time
> + * of LPAR reboot.
> */
>
> + if (!pdn) {
> + pr_debug(" no ibm,dma-window property !\n");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> ppci = PCI_DN(pdn);
>
> pr_debug(" parent is %pOF, iommu_table: 0x%p\n",
>
> base-commit: 2c71fdf02a95b3dd425b42f28fd47fb2b1d22702
> --
> 2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)
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