On 04/06/12 20:12, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
Alexander Motin writes:
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| On 04/04/12 21:47, John Baldwin wrote:
|>  On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 12:24:33 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote:
|>>  John Baldwin writes:
|>>  | On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:37:50 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote:
|>>  |>   John Baldwin writes:
|>>  |>   | On Monday, April 02, 2012 7:27:13 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote:
|>>  |>   |>   Doug Ambrisko writes:
|>>  |>   |>   | John Baldwin writes:
|>>  |>   |>   | | On Saturday, March 31, 2012 3:25:48 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote:
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   Sean Bruno writes:
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | Noting a failure to attach to the onboard IPMI 
controller
|>  with
|>>  | this
|>>  |>   | dell
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | R815.  Not sure what to start poking at and thought I'd
|>  though
|>>  | this
|>>  |>   | over
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | here for comment.
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   |
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | -bash-4.2$ dmesg |grep ipmi
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 on acpi
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | ipmi1:<IPMI System Interface>   on isa0
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | ipmi1:<IPMI System Interface>   on isa0
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   | ipmi0: Timed out waiting for GET_DEVICE_ID
|>>  |>   |>   | |>
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   I've run into this recently.  A quick hack to fix it is:
|>>  |>   |>   | |>
|>>  |>   |>   | |>   Index: ipmi.c
|>>  |>   |>   | |>
        [snip]
|>>  | If you use "-ct" then you get a file you can feed into schedgraph.
|>>  | However, just reading the log, it seems that IRQ 20 keeps preempting
|>>  | the KCS worker thread preventing it from getting anything done.  Also,
|>>  | there seem to be a lot of threads on CPU 0's runqueue waiting for a
|>>  | chance to run (load average of 12 or 13 the entire time).  You can try
|>>  | just bumping up the max timeout from 3 seconds to higher perhaps.  Not
|>>  | sure why IRQ 20 keeps firing though.  It might be related to USB, so
|>>  | you could try fiddling with USB options in the BIOS perhaps, or disabling
|>>  | the USB drivers to see if that fixes IPMI.
|>>
|>>  Tried without USB in kernel:
|>>       http://people.freebsd.org/~ambrisko/ipmi_ktr_dump_no_usb.txt
|>
|>  Hmm, it's still just running constantly (note that the idle thread is
|>  _never_ scheduled).  The lion's share of the time seems to be spent in
|>  "xpt_thrd".  Note that there are several places where nothing happens except
|>  that "xpt_thrd" runs constantly (spinning) during 10's of statclock ticks.  
I
|>  would maybe start debugging that to see what in the world it is doing.  
Maybe
|>  it is polling some hardware down in xpt_action() (i.e., xpt_action() for a
|>  single bus called down into a driver and it is just spinning using polling
|>  instead of sleeping and waiting for an interrupt).
|
| "xpt_thrd" is a bus scanner thread. It is scheduled by CAM for every bus
| on attach and by controller driver on hot-plug events. For some
| controllers it may be quite CPU-hungry. For example, for legacy ATA
| controllers, where bus reset may take many seconds of hardware polling,
| while devices just spinning up. For ahci(4) it was improved about year
| ago to not use polling when possible, but it still may loop for some
| time if controller is not responding on reset. What mfi(4), mentioned in
| log, does during scanning, I am not sure.

I thought that mfi(4) could be an issue.  There are some ata controllers
with nothing attached.  I built a GENERIC with USB and mfi commented out
and then the timeout issue went away:
   ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 on acpi
   ipmi1:<IPMI System Interface>  on isa0
   device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
   ipmi1:<IPMI System Interface>  on isa0
   device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_submit_driver_request 551 before msleep 1
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_complete_request 527 before wakeup 2211
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_complete_request 529 after wakeup 2272
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_submit_driver_request 553 after msleep 2332
   ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 0, firmware rev. 1.61, version 2.0

Without mfi and with USB and it had issues:
   ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 on acpi
   ipmi1:<IPMI System Interface>  on isa0
   device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
   ipmi1:<IPMI System Interface>  on isa0
   device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_submit_driver_request 551 before msleep 2
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_complete_request 527 before wakeup 3137
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_complete_request 529 after wakeup 3199
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_submit_driver_request 553 after msleep 3259
   ipmi0: Timed out waiting for GET_DEVICE_ID
   ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 0, firmware rev. 1.61, version 2.0

I can post more ktrdump traces if needed.  A 1U Dell machine without
mfi also has this problem.  As John mentioned it might be good to
bump up the timeout from 3s to 6s.  I did that with the USB no mfi
kernel and that passed:

   % dmesg | grep ipmi
   ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 on acpi
   ipmi1:<IPMI System Interface>  on isa0
   device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
   ipmi1:<IPMI System Interface>  on isa0
   device_attach: ipmi1 attach returned 16
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_submit_driver_request 551 before msleep 2
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_complete_request 527 before wakeup 3137
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_complete_request 529 after wakeup 3199
   ipmi0: DEBUG ipmi_submit_driver_request 553 after msleep 3259
   ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 0, firmware rev. 1.61, version 2.0

So maybe we need to agressively bump up the timeout.  I put a
timeout since I didn't want the system to hang.  Anyone have a
good idea of a timeout.  I thought I tried 6s initially and it
had issues but then the machine I was playing with had 3 mfi
cards and various disks hanging off it.

I have no idea about IPMI timeout to propose, but can't that check be remade opposite: if response received -- use it, otherwise -- check error value? Obviously it is not IPMI problem that CPU is busy, but ability to work in those conditions would be a bonus.

--
Alexander Motin
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