[PATCH v2 14/15] arm_mpam: prevent MPAM-Fb accesses inside IRQ handler
Andre Przywara
andre.przywara at arm.com
Thu Jul 9 05:06:56 PDT 2026
Hi,
On 7/3/26 12:54, Ben Horgan wrote:
> Hi Andre,
>
> On 7/2/26 17:22, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> When an MPAM MSC gets into an error condition, it can trigger an error
>> IRQ. We cannot really do much about those errors, but we at least query
>> and log the error, then disable MPAM functionality.
>>
>> This error report relies on reading the MSC's error status register
>> (ESR) in the IRQ handler, which is not possible for MPAM-Fb based
>> MSC accesses, since they involve mailbox routines that might sleep.
>> The same is true for clearing the interrupt at the source, which
>> requires MSC access.
>>
>> For simplicity just skip the ESR read when the MSC is not using direct
>> MMIO accesses, and just ignore the pending interrupts. We will wrap up
>> MPAM functionality regardless, knowing the exact error value will not
>> change that.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
>> index b858ff389bff..4a088e6cd235 100644
>> --- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
>> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
>> @@ -2639,7 +2639,7 @@ static int mpam_disable_msc_ecr(void *_msc)
>>
>> static irqreturn_t __mpam_irq_handler(int irq, struct mpam_msc *msc)
>> {
>> - u64 reg;
>> + u64 reg = 0;
>> u16 partid;
>> u8 errcode, pmg, ris;
>>
>> @@ -2648,25 +2648,30 @@ static irqreturn_t __mpam_irq_handler(int irq, struct mpam_msc *msc)
>> &msc->accessibility)))
>> return IRQ_NONE;
>>
>> - mpam_msc_read_esr(msc, ®);
>> + /* MPAM-Fb MSC accesses cannot be done in atomic context. */
>> + if (msc->iface == MPAM_IFACE_MMIO) {
>> + mpam_msc_read_esr(msc, ®);
>>
>> - errcode = FIELD_GET(MPAMF_ESR_ERRCODE, reg);
>> - if (!errcode)
>> - return IRQ_NONE;
>> + errcode = FIELD_GET(MPAMF_ESR_ERRCODE, reg);
>> + if (!errcode)
>> + return IRQ_NONE;
>>
>> - /* Clear level triggered irq */
>> - mpam_msc_clear_esr(msc);
>> + /* Clear level triggered irq */
>> + mpam_msc_clear_esr(msc);
>>
>> - partid = FIELD_GET(MPAMF_ESR_PARTID_MON, reg);
>> - pmg = FIELD_GET(MPAMF_ESR_PMG, reg);
>> - ris = FIELD_GET(MPAMF_ESR_RIS, reg);
>> + partid = FIELD_GET(MPAMF_ESR_PARTID_MON, reg);
>> + pmg = FIELD_GET(MPAMF_ESR_PMG, reg);
>> + ris = FIELD_GET(MPAMF_ESR_RIS, reg);
>>
>> - pr_err_ratelimited("error irq from msc:%u '%s', partid:%u, pmg: %u, ris: %u\n",
>> - msc->id, mpam_errcode_names[errcode], partid, pmg,
>> - ris);
>> + pr_err_ratelimited("error irq from msc:%u '%s', partid:%u, pmg: %u, ris: %u\n",
>> + msc->id, mpam_errcode_names[errcode], partid,
>> + pmg, ris);
>>
>> - /* Disable this interrupt. */
>> - mpam_disable_msc_ecr(msc);
>> + /* Disable this interrupt. */
>> + mpam_disable_msc_ecr(msc);
>
> As an error interrupt is final can we just disable the IRQ?
Doing that should be covered by mpam_unregister_irqs() as part of the
mpam_broken_work, shouldn't it? Or do you want to do it earlier?
> Is it
> useful? I see there is a function disable_irq_no_sync().
If we want to do it earlier, the _nosync variant sounds promising,
although the comment talks about it being nested, so I guess it would
need to be balanced? Which might be tricky here, since I guess the IRQ
would be disabled again in mpam_unregister_irqs()?
>> + } else {
>> + pr_err_ratelimited("unknown error irq from msc:%u\n", msc->id);
>
> Should we report by irq number?
> As MSC may share interrupts we don't know which MSC caused the error irq
> at this point. On MMIO platforms we read the ESR to establish this.
I see what you mean, though I am not sure if the user would be able to
make sense of any interrupt number? I would put it in anyway, more
information doesn't hurt.
Cheers,
Andre
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
>> + }
>>
>> /* Are we racing with the thread disabling MPAM? */
>> if (!mpam_is_enabled())
>
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