[PATCH v2] Revert "clocksource/drivers/riscv: Events are stopped during CPU suspend"

Conor Dooley conor.dooley at microchip.com
Tue Nov 22 04:16:21 PST 2022


This reverts commit 232ccac1bd9b5bfe73895f527c08623e7fa0752d.

On the subject of suspend, the RISC-V SBI spec states:
> Request the SBI implementation to put the calling hart in a platform
> specific suspend (or low power) state specified by the suspend_type
> parameter. The hart will automatically come out of suspended state and
> resume normal execution when it receives an interrupt or platform
> specific hardware event.

This does not cover whether any given events actually reach the hart or
not, just what the hart will do if it receives an event. On PolarFire
SoC, and potentially other SiFive based implementations, events from the
RISC-V timer do reach a hart during suspend. This is not the case for
the implementation on the Allwinner D1 - there timer events are not
received during suspend.

To fix this, the x86 C3STOP feature was enabled for the timer driver -
but this has broken both RCU stall detection and timers generally on
PolarFire SoC (and potentially other SiFive based implementations).

If an AXI read to the PCIe controller on PolarFire SoC times out, the
system will stall, however, with this patch applied, the system just
locks up without RCU stalling:
	io scheduler mq-deadline registered
	io scheduler kyber registered
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: host bridge /soc/pcie at 2000000000 ranges:
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie:      MEM 0x2008000000..0x2087ffffff -> 0x0008000000
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: sec error in pcie2axi buffer
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: ded error in pcie2axi buffer
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: axi read request error
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: axi read timeout
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: sec error in pcie2axi buffer
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: ded error in pcie2axi buffer
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: sec error in pcie2axi buffer
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: ded error in pcie2axi buffer
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: sec error in pcie2axi buffer
	microchip-pcie 2000000000.pcie: ded error in pcie2axi buffer
	Freeing initrd memory: 7332K

Similarly issues were reported with clock_nanosleep() - with a test app
that sleeps each cpu for 6, 5, 4, 3 ms respectively, HZ=250 & the blamed
commit in place, the sleep times are rounded up to the next jiffy:

== CPU: 1 ==      == CPU: 2 ==      == CPU: 3 ==      == CPU: 4 ==
Mean: 7.974992    Mean: 7.976534    Mean: 7.962591    Mean: 3.952179
Std Dev: 0.154374 Std Dev: 0.156082 Std Dev: 0.171018 Std Dev: 0.076193
Hi: 9.472000      Hi: 10.495000     Hi: 8.864000      Hi: 4.736000
Lo: 6.087000      Lo: 6.380000      Lo: 4.872000      Lo: 3.403000
Samples: 521      Samples: 521      Samples: 521      Samples: 521

Fortunately, the D1 has a second timer, which is "currently used in
preference to the RISC-V/SBI timer driver" so a revert here does not
hurt operation of D1 in it's current form.

Ultimately, a DeviceTree property (or node) will be added to encode the
behaviour of the timers, but until then revert the addition of
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/YzYTNQRxLr7Q9JR0@spud/
Link: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/issues/98/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/bf6d3b1f-f703-4a25-833e-972a44a04114@sholland.org/
Fixes: 232ccac1bd9b ("clocksource/drivers/riscv: Events are stopped during CPU suspend")
CC: Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org>
CC: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
CC: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
---

For v2, I have re-worked the commit message to (hopefully) add improved
context.

CC: aou at eecs.berkeley.edu
CC: atishp at atishpatra.org
CC: daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
CC: dmitriy at oss-tech.org
CC: paul.walmsley at sifive.com
CC: tglx at linutronix.de
CC: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
index 969a552da8d2..a0d66fabf073 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int riscv_clock_next_event(unsigned long delta,
 static unsigned int riscv_clock_event_irq;
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, riscv_clock_event) = {
 	.name			= "riscv_timer_clockevent",
-	.features		= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP,
+	.features		= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT,
 	.rating			= 100,
 	.set_next_event		= riscv_clock_next_event,
 };
-- 
2.38.1




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