[PATCH v12 00/25] Linux RISC-V AIA Support

Björn Töpel bjorn at kernel.org
Tue Jan 30 09:49:43 PST 2024


Anup Patel <apatel at ventanamicro.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 8:18 PM Björn Töpel <bjorn at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Björn Töpel <bjorn at kernel.org> writes:
>>
>> > Anup Patel <apatel at ventanamicro.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:22 PM Björn Töpel <bjorn at kernel.org> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Björn Töpel <bjorn at kernel.org> writes:
>> >>>
>> >>> > Anup Patel <apatel at ventanamicro.com> writes:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >> The RISC-V AIA specification is ratified as-per the RISC-V international
>> >>> >> process. The latest ratified AIA specifcation can be found at:
>> >>> >> https://github.com/riscv/riscv-aia/releases/download/1.0/riscv-interrupts-1.0.pdf
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> At a high-level, the AIA specification adds three things:
>> >>> >> 1) AIA CSRs
>> >>> >>    - Improved local interrupt support
>> >>> >> 2) Incoming Message Signaled Interrupt Controller (IMSIC)
>> >>> >>    - Per-HART MSI controller
>> >>> >>    - Support MSI virtualization
>> >>> >>    - Support IPI along with virtualization
>> >>> >> 3) Advanced Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (APLIC)
>> >>> >>    - Wired interrupt controller
>> >>> >>    - In MSI-mode, converts wired interrupt into MSIs (i.e. MSI generator)
>> >>> >>    - In Direct-mode, injects external interrupts directly into HARTs
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> For an overview of the AIA specification, refer the AIA virtualization
>> >>> >> talk at KVM Forum 2022:
>> >>> >> https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kvmforum2022/a1/AIA_Virtualization_in_KVM_RISCV_final.pdf
>> >>> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r071dL8Z0yo
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> To test this series, use QEMU v7.2 (or higher) and OpenSBI v1.2 (or higher).
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> These patches can also be found in the riscv_aia_v12 branch at:
>> >>> >> https://github.com/avpatel/linux.git
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Changes since v11:
>> >>> >>  - Rebased on Linux-6.8-rc1
>> >>> >>  - Included kernel/irq related patches from "genirq, irqchip: Convert ARM
>> >>> >>    MSI handling to per device MSI domains" series by Thomas.
>> >>> >>    (PATCH7, PATCH8, PATCH9, PATCH14, PATCH16, PATCH17, PATCH18, PATCH19,
>> >>> >>     PATCH20, PATCH21, PATCH22, PATCH23, and PATCH32 of
>> >>> >>     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20221121135653.208611233@linutronix.de/)
>> >>> >>  - Updated APLIC MSI-mode driver to use the new WIRED_TO_MSI mechanism.
>> >>> >>  - Updated IMSIC driver to support per-device MSI domains for PCI and
>> >>> >>    platform devices.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Thanks for working on this, Anup! I'm still reviewing the patches.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I'm hitting a boot hang in text patching, with this series applied on
>> >>> > 6.8-rc2. IPI issues?
>> >>>
>> >>> Not text patching! One cpu spinning in smp_call_function_many_cond() and
>> >>> the others are in cpu_relax(). Smells like IPI...
>> >>
>> >> I tried bootefi from U-Boot multiple times but can't reproduce the
>> >> issue you are seeing.
>> >
>> > Thanks! I can reproduce without EFI, and simpler command-line:
>> >
>> > qemu-system-riscv64 \
>> >   -bios /path/to/fw_dynamic.bin \
>> >   -kernel /path/to/Image \
>> >   -append 'earlycon console=tty0 console=ttyS0' \
>> >   -machine virt,aia=aplic-imsic \
>> >   -no-reboot -nodefaults -nographic \
>> >   -smp 4 \
>> >   -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 \
>> >   -device virtio-rng-device,rng=rng0 \
>> >   -m 4G -chardev stdio,id=char0 -serial chardev:char0
>> >
>> > I can reproduce with your upstream riscv_aia_v12 plus the config in the
>> > gist [1], and all latest QEMU/OpenSBI:
>> >
>> > QEMU: 11be70677c70 ("Merge tag 'pull-vfio-20240129' of https://github.com/legoater/qemu into staging")
>> > OpenSBI: bb90a9ebf6d9 ("lib: sbi: Print number of debug triggers found")
>> > Linux: d9b9d6eb987f ("MAINTAINERS: Add entry for RISC-V AIA drivers")
>> >
>> > Removing ",aia=aplic-imsic" from the CLI above completes the boot (i.e.
>> > panicking about missing root mount ;-))
>>
>> More context; The hang is during a late initcall, where an ftrace direct
>> (register_ftrace_direct()) modification is done.
>>
>> Stop machine is used to call into __ftrace_modify_call(). Then into the
>> arch specific patch_text_nosync(), where flush_icache_range() hangs in
>> flush_icache_all(). From "on_each_cpu(ipi_remote_fence_i, NULL, 1);" to
>> on_each_cpu_cond_mask() "smp_call_function_many_cond(mask, func, info,
>> scf_flags, cond_func);" which never returns from "csd_lock_wait(csd)"
>> right before the end of the function.
>>
>> Any ideas? Disabling CONFIG_HID_BPF, that does the early ftrace code
>> patching fixes the boot hang, but it does seem related to IPI...
>>
> Looks like flush_icache_all() does not use the IPIs (on_each_cpu()
> and friends) correctly.
>
> On other hand, the flush_icache_mm() does the right thing by
> doing local flush on the current CPU and IPI based flush on other
> CPUs.
>
> Can you try the following patch ?
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c b/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
> index 55a34f2020a8..a3dfbe4de832 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
> @@ -19,12 +19,18 @@ static void ipi_remote_fence_i(void *info)
>
>  void flush_icache_all(void)
>  {
> +    cpumask_t others;
> +
>      local_flush_icache_all();
>
> +    cpumask_andnot(&others, cpu_online_mask, cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()));
> +    if (cpumask_empty(&others))
> +        return;
> +
>      if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_SBI) && !riscv_use_ipi_for_rfence())
> -        sbi_remote_fence_i(NULL);
> +        sbi_remote_fence_i(&others);
>      else
> -        on_each_cpu(ipi_remote_fence_i, NULL, 1);
> +        on_each_cpu_mask(&others, ipi_remote_fence_i, NULL, 1);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_icache_all);

Unfortunately, I see the same hang. LMK if you'd like me to try anything
else.


Björn



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