[PATCH v7 0/5] Reset PCIe devices to address DMA problem on kdump with iommu

[Takao Indoh]

Hi Thomas,

(2013/01/09 11:32), Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 09:27:55 AM Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Thomas Renninger <trenn at suse.de> wrote:
>>> megaraid_sas
>>
>> can you check if your initrd for kdump kernel has that driver and
>> module that it depends on like
>> scsi sas transport etc ?
>
> Removing the 5 patches and the disk works and the
> dump is written.
>
> I can look a bit further at the memmap=exactmap issue tomorrow.
> I can also double check above then, but I am rather sure about it
> already:
> I tried plain vanilla -> worked, dumping started

It seems that there are several disk controllers in your system.

00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1d02] (rev 05)
02:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device [1000:005b] (rev 01)
05:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2116 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Meteor] [1000:0064] (rev 02)

Which disk are you using to save the vmcore?


> I tried with only these 5 patches added -> no disk.
>
>
> Some questions:
>
> You try to initialize the PCI subsystem in a way the BIOS typically has
> to do it in kexec case?

These patches sends hot reset to endpoints to reset them, it may be
different way from BIOS initialization.

> Reacting and trying to handle error condtitions more gracefully
> at the place where they are caught could be another approach which
> imo makes sense to implement in parallel.
>
> In my case for example I see:
> "Present field in the IRTE entry is clear"
> DMAR errors. I expect this comes from a device which still throws
> interrupts, but irq vector got not set-up or registered in the kexec'ed
> kernel.
>
> I could imagine this is the same error which happens when an irq is
> wrongly configured and spurious interrupts happen (but in irq remapped case).
> In my case it's not sever as I only see this message once, but according
> to another report, they see about 80 of such DMAR error messages per
> second. This seem to result in endless DMAR error interrupts and finally
> a dead system.
>
> I wonder whether the DMAR error handler could already invoke a PCIe
> reset.
> I found:
> int pci_set_pcie_reset_state(struct pci_dev *dev, enum pcie_reset_state state)
> which unfortunatly is only implemented for PPC, but would it make sense to
> implement this one and trigger function level reset if several specific DMAR
> errors are seen (or other PCI(e) error handlers get active?)?

Or AER framework may be able to handle this. Actually it has a function
to reset endpoint when error is detected.

Thanks,
Takao Indoh

>
> If this does not help the next step could be to stop DMAR error interrupt
> handling or other iommu commands to keep the machine alive, even if one
> device keeps firing interrupts to an unconfigured irq vector (or whatever other
> things could happen).
>
> Just some ideas...
> Comments appreciated.
>
>     Thomas
>
>