Hi Jassi,
sorry for delay again.
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 06:30:08PM +0530, Jassi Brar wrote:
> On 11 April 2017 at 18:04, Alexey Klimov <alexey.kli...@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:39:35PM +0530, Jassi Brar wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:01 PM, Alexey Klimov <alexey.kli...@arm.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > When mailbox controller provides two or more channels and
> >> > they are actively used by mailbox client(s) it's very easy
> >> > to trigger the warning in hrtimer_forward():
> >> >
> >> > [ 247.853060] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 0 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:805
> >> > hrtimer_forward+0x88/0xd8
> >> > [ 247.853549] Modules linked in:
> >> > [ 247.853907] CPU: 6 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/6 Tainted: G W
> >> > 4.11.0-rc2-00362-g93afaa4513bb-dirty #13
> >> > [ 247.854472] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> >> > [ 247.854699] task: ffff80001d89d780 task.stack: ffff80001d8c4000
> >> > [ 247.854999] PC is at hrtimer_forward+0x88/0xd8
> >> > [ 247.855280] LR is at txdone_hrtimer+0xd4/0xf8
> >> > [ 247.855551] pc : [<ffff0000081039f0>] lr : [<ffff00000881b874>]
> >> > pstate: 200001c5
> >> > [ 247.855857] sp : ffff80001efbdeb0
> >> > [ 247.856072] x29: ffff80001efbdeb0 x28: ffff80001efc3140
> >> > [ 247.856358] x27: ffff00000881b7a0 x26: 00000039ac93e8b6
> >> > [ 247.856604] x25: ffff000008e756be x24: ffff80001c4a1348
> >> > [ 247.856882] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 00000000000000f8
> >> > [ 247.857189] x21: ffff80001c4a1318 x20: ffff80001d327110
> >> > [ 247.857509] x19: 00000000000f4240 x18: 0000000000000030
> >> > [ 247.857808] x17: 0000ffffaecdf370 x16: ffff0000081ccc80
> >> > [ 247.858000] x15: 0000000000000010 x14: 00000000fffffff0
> >> > [ 247.858186] x13: ffff000008f488e0 x12: 000000000002e3eb
> >> > [ 247.858381] x11: ffff000008979690 x10: 0000000000000000
> >> > [ 247.858573] x9 : 0000000000000001 x8 : ffff80001efc66e0
> >> > [ 247.858758] x7 : ffff80001efc6708 x6 : 00000005be7732f2
> >> > [ 247.858943] x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : ffff80001c4a1348
> >> > [ 247.859130] x3 : 00000039ac94952a x2 : 00000000000f4240
> >> > [ 247.859315] x1 : 00000039ac98243c x0 : 0000000000038f12
> >> > [ 247.859582] ---[ end trace d61812426ec3c30b ]---
> >> >
> >> > To fix this current patch migrates hr timers to be per-channel
> >> > instead of using only one timer per-controller.
> >> >
> >> I think we can do by just checking if hrtimer_active() returns false
> >> before we do hrtimer_start() in msg_submit() ?
> >
> > It looks like it can be easily broken:
> >
> > 1) let's say first thread executes timer callback and already checked
> > last_tx_done
> > on channel 0;
> > 2) second thread submits a message to the controller, say, on channel 0 and
> > with
> > help of hrtimer_active() observes that the timer is active (because timer
> > callback
> > is running) and decides not to (re-)start timer;
> >
> > After this first thread decides not to restart the timer and finishes
> > callback.
> > The thing that first thread executes tx_tick isn't helpful: for example
> > first
> > thread may have no messages to submit on any channel and therefore is not
> > going
> > to deal with timer.
> >
> > Finally, mailbox state machine is stalled. Second thread thinks that timer
> > is
> > active while it's not.
> >
> ... you mean race :) and we have locks for that. You want me to send
> in a patch?
We don't have separate lock for timer.
> > One of the main questions is that there is only one timer per few channels
> > in current code.
> >
> I see that as a good thing because
> a) Polling anyway doesn't provide 'hard' guarantee even if we have one
> timer per channel
> b) The poll period remains same for every channel, so functionality
> wise you only increase timer callbacks.
Do you mean something like this below?
The patch isn't really tested on multi-channel environment yet but
I will test it. I just want to know if I am on the right way here.
I know there are some adjustments that can be done in the loop in hr-timer
callback. The thing that I don't like here is a lot of spin_lock/unlocks
in the timer callback.
Thanks,
Alexey
>From 2a7653a27be60d3e81719b16382d13963ab828e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Klimov <alexey.kli...@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 18:30:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH RFC] mailbox: fix hrtimer_forward() warning
When mailbox controller provides two or more channels and
they are actively used by mailbox client(s) it's very easy
to trigger the warning in hrtimer_forward():
[ 247.853060] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 0 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:805
hrtimer_forward+0x88/0xd8
[ 247.853549] Modules linked in:
[ 247.853907] CPU: 6 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/6 Tainted: G W
4.11.0-rc2-00362-g93afaa4513bb-dirty #13
[ 247.854472] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[ 247.854699] task: ffff80001d89d780 task.stack: ffff80001d8c4000
[ 247.854999] PC is at hrtimer_forward+0x88/0xd8
[ 247.855280] LR is at txdone_hrtimer+0xd4/0xf8
[ 247.855551] pc : [<ffff0000081039f0>] lr : [<ffff00000881b874>] pstate:
200001c5
[ 247.855857] sp : ffff80001efbdeb0
[ 247.856072] x29: ffff80001efbdeb0 x28: ffff80001efc3140
[ 247.856358] x27: ffff00000881b7a0 x26: 00000039ac93e8b6
[ 247.856604] x25: ffff000008e756be x24: ffff80001c4a1348
[ 247.856882] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 00000000000000f8
[ 247.857189] x21: ffff80001c4a1318 x20: ffff80001d327110
[ 247.857509] x19: 00000000000f4240 x18: 0000000000000030
[ 247.857808] x17: 0000ffffaecdf370 x16: ffff0000081ccc80
[ 247.858000] x15: 0000000000000010 x14: 00000000fffffff0
[ 247.858186] x13: ffff000008f488e0 x12: 000000000002e3eb
[ 247.858381] x11: ffff000008979690 x10: 0000000000000000
[ 247.858573] x9 : 0000000000000001 x8 : ffff80001efc66e0
[ 247.858758] x7 : ffff80001efc6708 x6 : 00000005be7732f2
[ 247.858943] x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : ffff80001c4a1348
[ 247.859130] x3 : 00000039ac94952a x2 : 00000000000f4240
[ 247.859315] x1 : 00000039ac98243c x0 : 0000000000038f12
[ 247.859582] ---[ end trace d61812426ec3c30b ]---
To fix it this patch introduces one more mbox spinlock for hr-timer and
hrt_active variable in controller structure.
The hr-timer callback restarts timer unless there no active requests
on some channel.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <alexey.kli...@arm.com>
---
drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
include/linux/mailbox_controller.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
index 9dfbf7e..0334676 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
@@ -85,9 +85,17 @@ static void msg_submit(struct mbox_chan *chan)
exit:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags);
- if (!err && (chan->txdone_method & TXDONE_BY_POLL))
- /* kick start the timer immediately to avoid delays */
- hrtimer_start(&chan->mbox->poll_hrt, 0, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+ if (!err && (chan->txdone_method & TXDONE_BY_POLL)) {
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->mbox->lock_hrt, flags);
+ /* try to start the timer immediately to avoid delays */
+ if (!chan->mbox->hrt_active) {
+ chan->mbox->hrt_active = 1;
+ hrtimer_start(&chan->mbox->poll_hrt, 0,
+ HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->mbox->lock_hrt, flags);
+ }
}
static void tx_tick(struct mbox_chan *chan, int r)
@@ -118,26 +126,65 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart txdone_hrtimer(struct hrtimer
*hrtimer)
{
struct mbox_controller *mbox =
container_of(hrtimer, struct mbox_controller, poll_hrt);
+ unsigned long flags;
bool txdone, resched = false;
int i;
+ spin_lock(&mbox->lock_hrt);
+
for (i = 0; i < mbox->num_chans; i++) {
struct mbox_chan *chan = &mbox->chans[i];
+ /*
+ * While iterating over channels we take the channel locks
+ * to be sure that reading of active_req is not racy and
+ * there are no randomly queued requests.
+ */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->lock, flags);
+
if (chan->active_req && chan->cl) {
txdone = chan->mbox->ops->last_tx_done(chan);
- if (txdone)
+
+ if (txdone) {
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags);
+
+ /* We have to unlock HR timer lock to avoid
+ * deadlock: tx_tick() acquires HR-timer
+ * spinlock to run timer. */
+ spin_unlock(&mbox->lock_hrt);
+
tx_tick(chan, 0);
- else
+
+ spin_lock(&mbox->lock_hrt);
+
+ /*
+ * It's possible that while we unlocked
+ * HR-timer lock here then someone can queue
+ * another request on another channel or
+ * tx_tick() above can queue a request. Such
+ * sequence will observe that timer is active
+ * and won't start it and leave. Therefore, we
+ * have to resched timer here in all cases
+ * manually.
+ */
resched = true;
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ resched = true;
}
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags);
}
- if (resched) {
+ if (resched)
hrtimer_forward_now(hrtimer, ms_to_ktime(mbox->txpoll_period));
- return HRTIMER_RESTART;
- }
- return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
+ else
+ mbox->hrt_active = 0;
+ spin_unlock(&mbox->lock_hrt);
+
+ return resched ? HRTIMER_RESTART : HRTIMER_NORESTART;
}
/**
@@ -462,6 +509,7 @@ int mbox_controller_register(struct mbox_controller *mbox)
return -EINVAL;
}
+ spin_lock_init(&mbox->lock_hrt);
hrtimer_init(&mbox->poll_hrt, CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
mbox->poll_hrt.function = txdone_hrtimer;
diff --git a/include/linux/mailbox_controller.h
b/include/linux/mailbox_controller.h
index 74deadb..1dd4c47 100644
--- a/include/linux/mailbox_controller.h
+++ b/include/linux/mailbox_controller.h
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ struct mbox_controller {
const struct of_phandle_args *sp);
/* Internal to API */
struct hrtimer poll_hrt;
+ spinlock_t lock_hrt;
+ unsigned int hrt_active;
struct list_head node;
};
--
1.9.1
