[PATCH 0/8] io-pgtable lock removal

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jun 28 04:46:09 PDT 2017


Hi Ray,

Robin and I have been bashing our heads against the tlb_sync_pending flag
this morning, and we reckon it could have something to do with your timeouts
on MMU-500.

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 09:43:19AM -0700, Ray Jui wrote:
> >> Also, in a few occasions, I observed the following message during the
> >> test, when multiple cores are involved:
> >>
> >> arm-smmu 64000000.mmu: TLB sync timed out -- SMMU may be deadlocked

The tlb_sync_pending logic was written under the assumption of a global
page-table lock, so it assumes that it only has to care about syncing
flushes from the current CPU/context. That's not true anymore, and the
current code can accidentally skip syncs and (what I think is happening in
your case) allow concurrent syncs, which will potentially lead to timeouts
if a CPU is unlucky enough to keep missing the Ack.

Please can you try the diff below and see if it fixes things for you?
This applies on top of my for-joerg/arm-smmu/updates branch, but note
that I've only shown it to the compiler. Not tested at all.

Will

--->8

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
index 127558d83667..cd8d7aaec161 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct io_pgtable_ops *alloc_io_pgtable_ops(enum io_pgtable_fmt fmt,
 	iop->cookie	= cookie;
 	iop->cfg	= *cfg;
 
+	atomic_set(&iop->tlb_sync_pending, 0);
 	return &iop->ops;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.h b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.h
index 524263a7ae6f..b64580c9d03d 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.h
+++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.h
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef __IO_PGTABLE_H
 #define __IO_PGTABLE_H
+
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 
 /*
@@ -165,7 +167,7 @@ void free_io_pgtable_ops(struct io_pgtable_ops *ops);
 struct io_pgtable {
 	enum io_pgtable_fmt	fmt;
 	void			*cookie;
-	bool			tlb_sync_pending;
+	atomic_t		tlb_sync_pending;
 	struct io_pgtable_cfg	cfg;
 	struct io_pgtable_ops	ops;
 };
@@ -175,22 +177,20 @@ struct io_pgtable {
 static inline void io_pgtable_tlb_flush_all(struct io_pgtable *iop)
 {
 	iop->cfg.tlb->tlb_flush_all(iop->cookie);
-	iop->tlb_sync_pending = true;
+	atomic_set_release(&iop->tlb_sync_pending, 1);
 }
 
 static inline void io_pgtable_tlb_add_flush(struct io_pgtable *iop,
 		unsigned long iova, size_t size, size_t granule, bool leaf)
 {
 	iop->cfg.tlb->tlb_add_flush(iova, size, granule, leaf, iop->cookie);
-	iop->tlb_sync_pending = true;
+	atomic_set_release(&iop->tlb_sync_pending, 1);
 }
 
 static inline void io_pgtable_tlb_sync(struct io_pgtable *iop)
 {
-	if (iop->tlb_sync_pending) {
+	if (atomic_xchg_relaxed(&iop->tlb_sync_pending, 0))
 		iop->cfg.tlb->tlb_sync(iop->cookie);
-		iop->tlb_sync_pending = false;
-	}
 }
 
 /**



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