Boris reported that the conversion to stacked irqdomains causes a
GFP_KERNEL allocation from atomic context splat.
The callchain is:
kernel_init_freeable
smp_prepare_cpus
default_setup_apic_routing
enable_IR_x2apic
irq_remapping_enable
intel_enable_irq_remapping
intel_setup_irq_remapping
irq_domain_add_hierarchy
__irq_domain_add
The reason for the splat is that smp_prepare_cpus() is pointlessly
disabling preemption and enable_IR_x2apic is calling
irq_remapping_enable with interrupts disabled.
Removing the completely useless preemption disable from
smp_prepare_cpus() is a no brainer, but resolving the interrupt
disabled issue in enable_IR_x2apic/irq_remapping_enable forced me to
look deeper into the iommu setup code.
Convoluted is probably an euphemism for that maze.
The early detection of iommus happens in mem_init() which looks for
the availability of ACPI tables describing iommus.
The actual parsing of the tables happens for AMD in
setup_irq_remapping_ops() which calls remap_ops.prepare() and for
Intel in irq_remapping_enable().
The AMD parsing allocates data structures, memory pages and the irq
domain from the prepare callback, which makes a lot of sense as this
has nothing to do with the actual enablement. That AMD code uses
GFP_KERNEL allocations inside of a preempt disabled region. That issue
is solved by removing the silly preempt_disable() from
smp_prepare_cpus().
For Intel the actual parsing and allocation is moved from the enable
to the prepare callback. That cures the reported splat and allows to
use GFP_KERNEL allocations for the iommu internal stuff as well. While
in the early bootup it does not matter much, for physical hotplug
GFP_ATOMIC allocations are not desired at all.
That solves the issue at hand, but the iommu setup stays a tangled
maze with completely non obvious setup mechanisms depending on the
options (iommu on/off - irq remapping on/off).
Thanks,
tglx
---
arch/x86/include/asm/irq_remapping.h | 2 -
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 3 -
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 8 ----
drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
drivers/iommu/irq_remapping.c | 19 +++------
kernel/irq/irqdomain.c | 21 +---------
6 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
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