On 2/12/21 5:41 PM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Depending on the number of online CPUs in the original kernel, it is
> likely for CPU #0 to be offline in a kdump kernel. The associated IRQs
> in the affinity mappings provided by irq_create_affinity_masks() are
> thus not started by irq_startup(), as per-design with managed IRQs.
> 
> This can be a problem with multi-queue block devices driven by blk-mq :
> such a non-started IRQ is very likely paired with the single queue
> enforced by blk-mq during kdump (see blk_mq_alloc_tag_set()). This
> causes the device to remain silent and likely hangs the guest at
> some point.
> 
> This is a regression caused by commit 9ea69a55b3b9 ("powerpc/pseries:
> Pass MSI affinity to irq_create_mapping()"). Note that this only happens
> with the XIVE interrupt controller because XICS has a workaround to bypass
> affinity, which is activated during kdump with the "noirqdistrib" kernel
> parameter.
> 
> The issue comes from a combination of factors:
> - discrepancy between the number of queues detected by the multi-queue
>   block driver, that was used to create the MSI vectors, and the single
>   queue mode enforced later on by blk-mq because of kdump (i.e. keeping
>   all queues fixes the issue)
> - CPU#0 offline (i.e. kdump always succeed with CPU#0)
> 
> Given that I couldn't reproduce on x86, which seems to always have CPU#0
> online even during kdump, I'm not sure where this should be fixed. Hence
> going for another approach : fine-grained affinity is for performance
> and we don't really care about that during kdump. Simply revert to the
> previous working behavior of ignoring affinity masks in this case only.
> 
> Fixes: 9ea69a55b3b9 ("powerpc/pseries: Pass MSI affinity to 
> irq_create_mapping()")
> Cc: lviv...@redhat.com
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org>


Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org>

Thanks for tracking this issue. 

This layer needs a rework. Patches adding a MSI domain should be ready 
in a couple of releases. Hopefully. 

C. 

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c 
> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
> index b3ac2455faad..29d04b83288d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
> @@ -458,8 +458,28 @@ static int rtas_setup_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *pdev, int 
> nvec_in, int type)
>                       return hwirq;
>               }
>  
> -             virq = irq_create_mapping_affinity(NULL, hwirq,
> -                                                entry->affinity);
> +             /*
> +              * Depending on the number of online CPUs in the original
> +              * kernel, it is likely for CPU #0 to be offline in a kdump
> +              * kernel. The associated IRQs in the affinity mappings
> +              * provided by irq_create_affinity_masks() are thus not
> +              * started by irq_startup(), as per-design for managed IRQs.
> +              * This can be a problem with multi-queue block devices driven
> +              * by blk-mq : such a non-started IRQ is very likely paired
> +              * with the single queue enforced by blk-mq during kdump (see
> +              * blk_mq_alloc_tag_set()). This causes the device to remain
> +              * silent and likely hangs the guest at some point.
> +              *
> +              * We don't really care for fine-grained affinity when doing
> +              * kdump actually : simply ignore the pre-computed affinity
> +              * masks in this case and let the default mask with all CPUs
> +              * be used when creating the IRQ mappings.
> +              */
> +             if (is_kdump_kernel())
> +                     virq = irq_create_mapping(NULL, hwirq);
> +             else
> +                     virq = irq_create_mapping_affinity(NULL, hwirq,
> +                                                        entry->affinity);
>  
>               if (!virq) {
>                       pr_debug("rtas_msi: Failed mapping hwirq %d\n", hwirq);
> 

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