[PATCH v7 11/16] irqchip/gic-v3: Add support for ACPI's disabled but 'online capable' CPUs

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:33:22 +0100
Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:54:38 +0100,
> Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:01:21 +0100
> > Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:40:20 +0100,
> > > Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at Huawei.com> wrote:  
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:54:07 +0100
> > > > Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com> wrote:  
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > >     
> > > > > +	/*
> > > > > +	 * Capable but disabled CPUs can be brought online later. What about
> > > > > +	 * the redistributor? ACPI doesn't want to say!
> > > > > +	 * Virtual hotplug systems can use the MADT's "always-on" GICR entries.
> > > > > +	 * Otherwise, prevent such CPUs from being brought online.
> > > > > +	 */
> > > > > +	if (!(gicc->flags & ACPI_MADT_ENABLED)) {
> > > > > +		pr_warn_once("CPU %u's redistributor is inaccessible: this CPU can't be brought online\n", cpu);
> > > > > +		set_cpu_present(cpu, false);
> > > > > +		set_cpu_possible(cpu, false);
> > > > > +		return 0;
> > > > > +	}    
> > > 
> > > It seems dangerous to clear those this late in the game, given how
> > > disconnected from the architecture code this is. Are we sure that
> > > nothing has sampled these cpumasks beforehand?  
> > 
> > Hi Marc,
> > 
> > Any firmware that does this is being considered as buggy already
> > but given it is firmware and the spec doesn't say much about this,
> > there is always the possibility.  
> 
> There is no shortage of broken firmware out there, and I expect this
> trend to progress.
> 
> > Not much happens between the point where these are setup and
> > the point where the the gic inits and this code runs, but even if careful
> > review showed it was fine today, it will be fragile to future changes.
> > 
> > I'm not sure there is a huge disadvantage for such broken firmware in
> > clearing these masks from the point of view of what is used throughout
> > the rest of the kernel. Here I think we are just looking to prevent the CPU
> > being onlined later.  
> 
> I totally agree on the goal, I simply question the way you get to it.
> 
> > 
> > We could add a set_cpu_broken() with appropriate mask.
> > Given this is very arm64 specific I'm not sure Rafael will be keen on
> > us checking such a mask in the generic ACPI code, but we could check it in
> > arch_register_cpu() and just not register the cpu if it matches.
> > That will cover the vCPU hotplug case.
> >
> > Does that sounds sensible, or would you prefer something else?  
> 
> 
> Such a 'broken_rdists' mask is exactly what I have in mind, just
> keeping it private to the GIC driver, and not expose it anywhere else.
> You can then fail the hotplug event early, and avoid changing the
> global masks from within the GIC driver. At least, we don't mess with
> the internals of the kernel, and the CPU is properly marked as dead
> (that mechanism should already work).
> 
> I'd expect the handling side to look like this (will not compile, but
> you'll get the idea):
Hi Marc,

In general this looks good - but...

I haven't gotten to the bottom of why yet (and it might be a side
effect of how I hacked the test by lying in minimal fashion and
just frigging the MADT read functions) but the hotplug flow is only getting
as far as calling __cpu_up() before it seems to enter an infinite loop.
That is it never gets far enough to fail this test.

Getting stuck in a psci cpu_on call.  I'm guessing something that
we didn't get to in the earlier gicv3 calls before bailing out is blocking that?
Looks like it gets to
SMCCC smc
and is never seen again.

Any ideas on where to look?  The one advantage so far of the higher level
approach is we never tried the hotplug callbacks at all so avoided hitting
that call.  One (little bit horrible) solution that might avoid this would 
be to add another cpuhp state very early on and fail at that stage.
I'm not keen on doing that without a better explanation than I have so far!

Thanks,

J

 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> index 6fb276504bcc..e8f02bfd0e21 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> @@ -1009,6 +1009,9 @@ static int __gic_populate_rdist(struct redist_region *region, void __iomem *ptr)
>  	u64 typer;
>  	u32 aff;
>  
> +	if (cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &broken_rdists))
> +		return 1;
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Convert affinity to a 32bit value that can be matched to
>  	 * GICR_TYPER bits [63:32].
> @@ -1260,14 +1263,15 @@ static int gic_dist_supports_lpis(void)
>  		!gicv3_nolpi);
>  }
>  
> -static void gic_cpu_init(void)
> +static int gic_cpu_init(void)
>  {
>  	void __iomem *rbase;
> -	int i;
> +	int ret, i;
>  
>  	/* Register ourselves with the rest of the world */
> -	if (gic_populate_rdist())
> -		return;
> +	ret = gic_populate_rdist();
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
>  
>  	gic_enable_redist(true);
>  
> @@ -1286,6 +1290,8 @@ static void gic_cpu_init(void)
>  
>  	/* initialise system registers */
>  	gic_cpu_sys_reg_init();
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> @@ -1295,7 +1301,11 @@ static void gic_cpu_init(void)
>  
>  static int gic_starting_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
>  {
> -	gic_cpu_init();
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = gic_cpu_init();
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
>  
>  	if (gic_dist_supports_lpis())
>  		its_cpu_init();
> 
> But the question is: do you rely on these masks having been
> "corrected" anywhere else?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	M.
>