2022-03-11 15:50:50

by Jeremy Linton

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Subject: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
this is causing problems like:

[ 210.074549] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 210.079223] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enabcm6e4ei0 (bcmgenet): transmit queue 1 timed out
[ 210.086717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:529 dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
[ 210.095044] Modules linked in: genet(E) nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat]
[ 210.146561] ACPI CPPC: PCC check channel failed for ss: 0. ret=-110
[ 210.146927] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G E 5.17.0-rc7G12+ #58
[ 210.153226] CPPC Cpufreq:cppc_scale_freq_workfn: failed to read perf counters
[ 210.161349] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4 Model B/Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, BIOS EDK2-DEV 02/08/2022
[ 210.161353] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 210.161358] pc : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
[ 210.161364] lr : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
[ 210.161368] sp : ffff8000080a3a40
[ 210.161370] x29: ffff8000080a3a40 x28: ffffcd425af87000 x27: ffff8000080a3b20
[ 210.205150] x26: ffffcd425aa00000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffcd425af8ec08
[ 210.212321] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffffcd425af87000 x21: ffff55b142688000
[ 210.219491] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff55b1426884c8 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 210.226661] x17: 64656d6974203120 x16: 0000000000000001 x15: 6d736e617274203a
[ 210.233831] x14: 2974656e65676d63 x13: ffffcd4259c300d8 x12: ffffcd425b07d5f0
[ 210.241001] x11: 00000000ffffffff x10: ffffcd425b07d5f0 x9 : ffffcd4258bdad9c
[ 210.248171] x8 : 00000000ffffdfff x7 : 000000000000003f x6 : 0000000000000000
[ 210.255341] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000001000
[ 210.262511] x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : 0000000000000005 x0 : 0000000000000044
[ 210.269682] Call trace:
[ 210.272133] dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
[ 210.275811] call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x15c
[ 210.279489] __run_timers.part.0+0x288/0x310
[ 210.283777] run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
[ 210.287716] __do_softirq+0x128/0x360
[ 210.291392] __irq_exit_rcu+0x138/0x140
[ 210.295243] irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x30
[ 210.298745] el1_interrupt+0x38/0x54
[ 210.302334] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
[ 210.306445] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
[ 210.309857] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x2c
[ 210.313445] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x140
[ 210.317470] cpuidle_idle_call+0x14c/0x1a0
[ 210.321584] do_idle+0xb0/0x100
[ 210.324737] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x8c
[ 210.328675] secondary_start_kernel+0xe4/0x110
[ 210.333138] __secondary_switched+0x94/0x98

The assumption when these were relaxed seems to be that device memory
would be mapped non reordering, and that other constructs
(spinlocks/etc) would provide the barriers to assure that packet data
and in memory rings/queues were ordered with respect to device
register reads/writes. This itself seems a bit sketchy, but the real
problem with GCC12 is that it is moving the actual reads/writes around
at will as though they were independent operations when in truth they
are not, but the compiler can't know that. When looking at the
assembly dumps for many of these routines its possible to see very
clean, but not strictly in program order operations occurring as the
compiler would be free to do if these weren't actually register
reads/write operations.

Its possible to suppress the timeout with a liberal bit of dma_mb()'s
sprinkled around but the device still seems unable to reliably
send/receive data. A better plan is to use the safer readl/writel
everywhere.

Since this partially reverts an older commit, which notes the use of
the relaxed variants for performance reasons. I would suggest that
any performance problems with this commit are targeted at relaxing only
the performance critical code paths after assuring proper barriers.

Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
Reported-by: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
index 87f1056e29ff..e907a2df299c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static inline void bcmgenet_writel(u32 value, void __iomem *offset)
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN))
__raw_writel(value, offset);
else
- writel_relaxed(value, offset);
+ writel(value, offset);
}

static inline u32 bcmgenet_readl(void __iomem *offset)
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static inline u32 bcmgenet_readl(void __iomem *offset)
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN))
return __raw_readl(offset);
else
- return readl_relaxed(offset);
+ return readl(offset);
}

static inline void dmadesc_set_length_status(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv,
--
2.35.1


2022-03-11 20:36:21

by Florian Fainelli

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering



On 3/10/2022 5:09 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> On 3/10/22 12:59, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 3/9/22 8:53 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>>> GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
>>> aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
>>> this is causing problems like:
>>>
>>> [  210.074549] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>> [  210.079223] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enabcm6e4ei0 (bcmgenet): transmit
>>> queue 1 timed out
>>> [  210.086717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:529
>>> dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
>>> [  210.095044] Modules linked in: genet(E) nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4
>>> nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6
>>> nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat]
>>> [  210.146561] ACPI CPPC: PCC check channel failed for ss: 0. ret=-110
>>> [  210.146927] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G
>>> E     5.17.0-rc7G12+ #58
>>> [  210.153226] CPPC Cpufreq:cppc_scale_freq_workfn: failed to read
>>> perf counters
>>> [  210.161349] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4
>>> Model B/Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, BIOS EDK2-DEV 02/08/2022
>>> [  210.161353] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS
>>> BTYPE=--)
>>> [  210.161358] pc : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
>>> [  210.161364] lr : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
>>> [  210.161368] sp : ffff8000080a3a40
>>> [  210.161370] x29: ffff8000080a3a40 x28: ffffcd425af87000 x27:
>>> ffff8000080a3b20
>>> [  210.205150] x26: ffffcd425aa00000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24:
>>> ffffcd425af8ec08
>>> [  210.212321] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffffcd425af87000 x21:
>>> ffff55b142688000
>>> [  210.219491] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff55b1426884c8 x18:
>>> ffffffffffffffff
>>> [  210.226661] x17: 64656d6974203120 x16: 0000000000000001 x15:
>>> 6d736e617274203a
>>> [  210.233831] x14: 2974656e65676d63 x13: ffffcd4259c300d8 x12:
>>> ffffcd425b07d5f0
>>> [  210.241001] x11: 00000000ffffffff x10: ffffcd425b07d5f0 x9 :
>>> ffffcd4258bdad9c
>>> [  210.248171] x8 : 00000000ffffdfff x7 : 000000000000003f x6 :
>>> 0000000000000000
>>> [  210.255341] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 :
>>> 0000000000001000
>>> [  210.262511] x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : 0000000000000005 x0 :
>>> 0000000000000044
>>> [  210.269682] Call trace:
>>> [  210.272133]  dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
>>> [  210.275811]  call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x15c
>>> [  210.279489]  __run_timers.part.0+0x288/0x310
>>> [  210.283777]  run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
>>> [  210.287716]  __do_softirq+0x128/0x360
>>> [  210.291392]  __irq_exit_rcu+0x138/0x140
>>> [  210.295243]  irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x30
>>> [  210.298745]  el1_interrupt+0x38/0x54
>>> [  210.302334]  el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
>>> [  210.306445]  el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
>>> [  210.309857]  arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x2c
>>> [  210.313445]  default_idle_call+0x4c/0x140
>>> [  210.317470]  cpuidle_idle_call+0x14c/0x1a0
>>> [  210.321584]  do_idle+0xb0/0x100
>>> [  210.324737]  cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x8c
>>> [  210.328675]  secondary_start_kernel+0xe4/0x110
>>> [  210.333138]  __secondary_switched+0x94/0x98
>>>
>>> The assumption when these were relaxed seems to be that device memory
>>> would be mapped non reordering, and that other constructs
>>> (spinlocks/etc) would provide the barriers to assure that packet data
>>> and in memory rings/queues were ordered with respect to device
>>> register reads/writes. This itself seems a bit sketchy, but the real
>>> problem with GCC12 is that it is moving the actual reads/writes around
>>> at will as though they were independent operations when in truth they
>>> are not, but the compiler can't know that. When looking at the
>>> assembly dumps for many of these routines its possible to see very
>>> clean, but not strictly in program order operations occurring as the
>>> compiler would be free to do if these weren't actually register
>>> reads/write operations.
>>>
>>> Its possible to suppress the timeout with a liberal bit of dma_mb()'s
>>> sprinkled around but the device still seems unable to reliably
>>> send/receive data. A better plan is to use the safer readl/writel
>>> everywhere.
>>>
>>> Since this partially reverts an older commit, which notes the use of
>>> the relaxed variants for performance reasons. I would suggest that
>>> any performance problems with this commit are targeted at relaxing only
>>> the performance critical code paths after assuring proper barriers.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
>>> Reported-by: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>
>>
>> I think this is the correct approach in that it favors correctness over
>> speed, however there is an opportunity for maintaining the speed and
>> correctness on non-2711 and non-7712 chips where the GENET core is
>> interfaced to a system bus (GISB) that guarantees no re-ordering and no
>> buffering. I suppose that until we prove that the extra barrier is
>> harmful to performance on those chips, we should go with your patch.
>>
>> It seems like we missed the GENET_IO_MACRO() in bcmgenet.h, while most
>> of them deal with the control path which likely does not have any
>> re-ordering problem, there is an exception to that which are the
>> intrl2_0 and intrl2_1 macros, which I believe *have* to be ordered as
>> well in order to avoid spurious or missed interrupts, or maybe there is
>> enough barriers in the interrupt processing code that this is moot?
>
>
> Ok, so I spent some time and tracked down exactly which barrier "fixes"
> this immediate problem on the rpi4.
>
> static void bcmgenet_enable_dma(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv, u32 dma_ctrl)
>  {
>         u32 reg;
>
> +       dma_mb(); //timeout fix
>         reg = bcmgenet_rdma_readl(priv, DMA_CTRL);
>         reg |= dma_ctrl;
>
>
> fixes it as well, and keeps all the existing code. Although, granted I
> didn't stress the adapter beyond a couple interactive ssh sessions. And
> as you mention there are a fair number of other accessors that I didn't
> touch which are still relaxed.

Thanks! This is really helpful. Doug told me earlier today that he
wanted to take a closer look since your initial approach while correct
appears a bit heavy handed.
--
Florian

2022-03-16 23:53:40

by Peter Robinson

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 3:57 AM Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/10/2022 5:09 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> > On 3/10/22 12:59, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> On 3/9/22 8:53 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> >>> GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
> >>> aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
> >>> this is causing problems like:
> >>>
> >>> [ 210.074549] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >>> [ 210.079223] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enabcm6e4ei0 (bcmgenet): transmit
> >>> queue 1 timed out
> >>> [ 210.086717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:529
> >>> dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> >>> [ 210.095044] Modules linked in: genet(E) nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4
> >>> nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6
> >>> nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat]
> >>> [ 210.146561] ACPI CPPC: PCC check channel failed for ss: 0. ret=-110
> >>> [ 210.146927] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G
> >>> E 5.17.0-rc7G12+ #58
> >>> [ 210.153226] CPPC Cpufreq:cppc_scale_freq_workfn: failed to read
> >>> perf counters
> >>> [ 210.161349] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4
> >>> Model B/Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, BIOS EDK2-DEV 02/08/2022
> >>> [ 210.161353] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS
> >>> BTYPE=--)
> >>> [ 210.161358] pc : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> >>> [ 210.161364] lr : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> >>> [ 210.161368] sp : ffff8000080a3a40
> >>> [ 210.161370] x29: ffff8000080a3a40 x28: ffffcd425af87000 x27:
> >>> ffff8000080a3b20
> >>> [ 210.205150] x26: ffffcd425aa00000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24:
> >>> ffffcd425af8ec08
> >>> [ 210.212321] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffffcd425af87000 x21:
> >>> ffff55b142688000
> >>> [ 210.219491] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff55b1426884c8 x18:
> >>> ffffffffffffffff
> >>> [ 210.226661] x17: 64656d6974203120 x16: 0000000000000001 x15:
> >>> 6d736e617274203a
> >>> [ 210.233831] x14: 2974656e65676d63 x13: ffffcd4259c300d8 x12:
> >>> ffffcd425b07d5f0
> >>> [ 210.241001] x11: 00000000ffffffff x10: ffffcd425b07d5f0 x9 :
> >>> ffffcd4258bdad9c
> >>> [ 210.248171] x8 : 00000000ffffdfff x7 : 000000000000003f x6 :
> >>> 0000000000000000
> >>> [ 210.255341] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 :
> >>> 0000000000001000
> >>> [ 210.262511] x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : 0000000000000005 x0 :
> >>> 0000000000000044
> >>> [ 210.269682] Call trace:
> >>> [ 210.272133] dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> >>> [ 210.275811] call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x15c
> >>> [ 210.279489] __run_timers.part.0+0x288/0x310
> >>> [ 210.283777] run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
> >>> [ 210.287716] __do_softirq+0x128/0x360
> >>> [ 210.291392] __irq_exit_rcu+0x138/0x140
> >>> [ 210.295243] irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x30
> >>> [ 210.298745] el1_interrupt+0x38/0x54
> >>> [ 210.302334] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
> >>> [ 210.306445] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
> >>> [ 210.309857] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x2c
> >>> [ 210.313445] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x140
> >>> [ 210.317470] cpuidle_idle_call+0x14c/0x1a0
> >>> [ 210.321584] do_idle+0xb0/0x100
> >>> [ 210.324737] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x8c
> >>> [ 210.328675] secondary_start_kernel+0xe4/0x110
> >>> [ 210.333138] __secondary_switched+0x94/0x98
> >>>
> >>> The assumption when these were relaxed seems to be that device memory
> >>> would be mapped non reordering, and that other constructs
> >>> (spinlocks/etc) would provide the barriers to assure that packet data
> >>> and in memory rings/queues were ordered with respect to device
> >>> register reads/writes. This itself seems a bit sketchy, but the real
> >>> problem with GCC12 is that it is moving the actual reads/writes around
> >>> at will as though they were independent operations when in truth they
> >>> are not, but the compiler can't know that. When looking at the
> >>> assembly dumps for many of these routines its possible to see very
> >>> clean, but not strictly in program order operations occurring as the
> >>> compiler would be free to do if these weren't actually register
> >>> reads/write operations.
> >>>
> >>> Its possible to suppress the timeout with a liberal bit of dma_mb()'s
> >>> sprinkled around but the device still seems unable to reliably
> >>> send/receive data. A better plan is to use the safer readl/writel
> >>> everywhere.
> >>>
> >>> Since this partially reverts an older commit, which notes the use of
> >>> the relaxed variants for performance reasons. I would suggest that
> >>> any performance problems with this commit are targeted at relaxing only
> >>> the performance critical code paths after assuring proper barriers.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
> >>> Reported-by: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> I think this is the correct approach in that it favors correctness over
> >> speed, however there is an opportunity for maintaining the speed and
> >> correctness on non-2711 and non-7712 chips where the GENET core is
> >> interfaced to a system bus (GISB) that guarantees no re-ordering and no
> >> buffering. I suppose that until we prove that the extra barrier is
> >> harmful to performance on those chips, we should go with your patch.
> >>
> >> It seems like we missed the GENET_IO_MACRO() in bcmgenet.h, while most
> >> of them deal with the control path which likely does not have any
> >> re-ordering problem, there is an exception to that which are the
> >> intrl2_0 and intrl2_1 macros, which I believe *have* to be ordered as
> >> well in order to avoid spurious or missed interrupts, or maybe there is
> >> enough barriers in the interrupt processing code that this is moot?
> >
> >
> > Ok, so I spent some time and tracked down exactly which barrier "fixes"
> > this immediate problem on the rpi4.
> >
> > static void bcmgenet_enable_dma(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv, u32 dma_ctrl)
> > {
> > u32 reg;
> >
> > + dma_mb(); //timeout fix
> > reg = bcmgenet_rdma_readl(priv, DMA_CTRL);
> > reg |= dma_ctrl;
> >
> >
> > fixes it as well, and keeps all the existing code. Although, granted I
> > didn't stress the adapter beyond a couple interactive ssh sessions. And
> > as you mention there are a fair number of other accessors that I didn't
> > touch which are still relaxed.
>
> Thanks! This is really helpful. Doug told me earlier today that he
> wanted to take a closer look since your initial approach while correct
> appears a bit heavy handed.

With 5.17 due in a couple of days could we get a fix in so it works
for users and optimise the approach with a follow up so that it's not
broken for common device?

Peter

2022-03-19 04:32:05

by Jakub Kicinski

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:26:36 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Maybe I should have refrained from making that comment after all :)
> Having the Fixes: tag dramatically helps with getting this patch applied
> all the way to the relevant stable trees and surely correctness over
> speed should prevail. If we want to restore the performance loss (with
> the onus on Doug and I to prove that there is a performance drop), then
> we could send a fix with the appropriate localized barrier followed by a
> revert of Jeremy's patch. And if we cared about getting those two
> patches applied to stable, we would tag them with the appropriate Fixes tag.
>
> It looks like there are a few 'net' changes that showed up, are you
> going to send a pull request to Linus before 5.17 final is cut?

Not unless there's -rc9. We'll just merge net into net-next before
submitting net-next, most likely.

2022-03-19 08:25:31

by Florian Fainelli

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On 3/18/22 12:20 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:01:20 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> Given the time crunch we should go with Jeremy's patch that uses
>> stronger I/O access method and then we will work with Jeremy offline to
>> make sure that our version of GCC12 is exactly the same as his, as well
>> as the compiler options (like -mtune/-march) to reproduce this.
>>
>> If we believe this is only a problem with GCC12 and 5.17 in Fedora, then
>> I would be inclined to remove the Fixes tag such that when we come up
>> with a more localized solution we do not have to revert "net: bcmgenet:
>> Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering" from stable
>> branches. This would be mostly a courtesy to our future selves, but an
>> argument could be made that this probably has always existed, and that
>> different compilers could behave more or less like GCC12.
>
> Are you expecting this patch to make 5.17? If Linus cuts final this
> weekend, as he most likely will, unless we do something special the
> patch in question will end up getting merged during the merge window.
> Without the Fixes tag you'll need to manually instruct Greg to pull
> it in. Is that the plan?

Maybe I should have refrained from making that comment after all :)
Having the Fixes: tag dramatically helps with getting this patch applied
all the way to the relevant stable trees and surely correctness over
speed should prevail. If we want to restore the performance loss (with
the onus on Doug and I to prove that there is a performance drop), then
we could send a fix with the appropriate localized barrier followed by a
revert of Jeremy's patch. And if we cared about getting those two
patches applied to stable, we would tag them with the appropriate Fixes tag.

It looks like there are a few 'net' changes that showed up, are you
going to send a pull request to Linus before 5.17 final is cut?
--
Florian

2022-03-21 05:49:21

by Florian Fainelli

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On 3/15/22 8:29 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 3:57 AM Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/10/2022 5:09 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>>> On 3/10/22 12:59, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> On 3/9/22 8:53 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>>>>> GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
>>>>> aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
>>>>> this is causing problems like:
>>>>>
>>>>> [ 210.074549] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>>> [ 210.079223] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enabcm6e4ei0 (bcmgenet): transmit
>>>>> queue 1 timed out
>>>>> [ 210.086717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:529
>>>>> dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
>>>>> [ 210.095044] Modules linked in: genet(E) nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4
>>>>> nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6
>>>>> nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat]
>>>>> [ 210.146561] ACPI CPPC: PCC check channel failed for ss: 0. ret=-110
>>>>> [ 210.146927] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G
>>>>> E 5.17.0-rc7G12+ #58
>>>>> [ 210.153226] CPPC Cpufreq:cppc_scale_freq_workfn: failed to read
>>>>> perf counters
>>>>> [ 210.161349] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4
>>>>> Model B/Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, BIOS EDK2-DEV 02/08/2022
>>>>> [ 210.161353] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS
>>>>> BTYPE=--)
>>>>> [ 210.161358] pc : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
>>>>> [ 210.161364] lr : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
>>>>> [ 210.161368] sp : ffff8000080a3a40
>>>>> [ 210.161370] x29: ffff8000080a3a40 x28: ffffcd425af87000 x27:
>>>>> ffff8000080a3b20
>>>>> [ 210.205150] x26: ffffcd425aa00000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24:
>>>>> ffffcd425af8ec08
>>>>> [ 210.212321] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffffcd425af87000 x21:
>>>>> ffff55b142688000
>>>>> [ 210.219491] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff55b1426884c8 x18:
>>>>> ffffffffffffffff
>>>>> [ 210.226661] x17: 64656d6974203120 x16: 0000000000000001 x15:
>>>>> 6d736e617274203a
>>>>> [ 210.233831] x14: 2974656e65676d63 x13: ffffcd4259c300d8 x12:
>>>>> ffffcd425b07d5f0
>>>>> [ 210.241001] x11: 00000000ffffffff x10: ffffcd425b07d5f0 x9 :
>>>>> ffffcd4258bdad9c
>>>>> [ 210.248171] x8 : 00000000ffffdfff x7 : 000000000000003f x6 :
>>>>> 0000000000000000
>>>>> [ 210.255341] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 :
>>>>> 0000000000001000
>>>>> [ 210.262511] x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : 0000000000000005 x0 :
>>>>> 0000000000000044
>>>>> [ 210.269682] Call trace:
>>>>> [ 210.272133] dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
>>>>> [ 210.275811] call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x15c
>>>>> [ 210.279489] __run_timers.part.0+0x288/0x310
>>>>> [ 210.283777] run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
>>>>> [ 210.287716] __do_softirq+0x128/0x360
>>>>> [ 210.291392] __irq_exit_rcu+0x138/0x140
>>>>> [ 210.295243] irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x30
>>>>> [ 210.298745] el1_interrupt+0x38/0x54
>>>>> [ 210.302334] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
>>>>> [ 210.306445] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
>>>>> [ 210.309857] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x2c
>>>>> [ 210.313445] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x140
>>>>> [ 210.317470] cpuidle_idle_call+0x14c/0x1a0
>>>>> [ 210.321584] do_idle+0xb0/0x100
>>>>> [ 210.324737] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x8c
>>>>> [ 210.328675] secondary_start_kernel+0xe4/0x110
>>>>> [ 210.333138] __secondary_switched+0x94/0x98
>>>>>
>>>>> The assumption when these were relaxed seems to be that device memory
>>>>> would be mapped non reordering, and that other constructs
>>>>> (spinlocks/etc) would provide the barriers to assure that packet data
>>>>> and in memory rings/queues were ordered with respect to device
>>>>> register reads/writes. This itself seems a bit sketchy, but the real
>>>>> problem with GCC12 is that it is moving the actual reads/writes around
>>>>> at will as though they were independent operations when in truth they
>>>>> are not, but the compiler can't know that. When looking at the
>>>>> assembly dumps for many of these routines its possible to see very
>>>>> clean, but not strictly in program order operations occurring as the
>>>>> compiler would be free to do if these weren't actually register
>>>>> reads/write operations.
>>>>>
>>>>> Its possible to suppress the timeout with a liberal bit of dma_mb()'s
>>>>> sprinkled around but the device still seems unable to reliably
>>>>> send/receive data. A better plan is to use the safer readl/writel
>>>>> everywhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since this partially reverts an older commit, which notes the use of
>>>>> the relaxed variants for performance reasons. I would suggest that
>>>>> any performance problems with this commit are targeted at relaxing only
>>>>> the performance critical code paths after assuring proper barriers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
>>>>> Reported-by: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>> I think this is the correct approach in that it favors correctness over
>>>> speed, however there is an opportunity for maintaining the speed and
>>>> correctness on non-2711 and non-7712 chips where the GENET core is
>>>> interfaced to a system bus (GISB) that guarantees no re-ordering and no
>>>> buffering. I suppose that until we prove that the extra barrier is
>>>> harmful to performance on those chips, we should go with your patch.
>>>>
>>>> It seems like we missed the GENET_IO_MACRO() in bcmgenet.h, while most
>>>> of them deal with the control path which likely does not have any
>>>> re-ordering problem, there is an exception to that which are the
>>>> intrl2_0 and intrl2_1 macros, which I believe *have* to be ordered as
>>>> well in order to avoid spurious or missed interrupts, or maybe there is
>>>> enough barriers in the interrupt processing code that this is moot?
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, so I spent some time and tracked down exactly which barrier "fixes"
>>> this immediate problem on the rpi4.
>>>
>>> static void bcmgenet_enable_dma(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv, u32 dma_ctrl)
>>> {
>>> u32 reg;
>>>
>>> + dma_mb(); //timeout fix
>>> reg = bcmgenet_rdma_readl(priv, DMA_CTRL);
>>> reg |= dma_ctrl;
>>>
>>>
>>> fixes it as well, and keeps all the existing code. Although, granted I
>>> didn't stress the adapter beyond a couple interactive ssh sessions. And
>>> as you mention there are a fair number of other accessors that I didn't
>>> touch which are still relaxed.
>>
>> Thanks! This is really helpful. Doug told me earlier today that he
>> wanted to take a closer look since your initial approach while correct
>> appears a bit heavy handed.
>
> With 5.17 due in a couple of days could we get a fix in so it works
> for users and optimise the approach with a follow up so that it's not
> broken for common device?

Given the time crunch we should go with Jeremy's patch that uses
stronger I/O access method and then we will work with Jeremy offline to
make sure that our version of GCC12 is exactly the same as his, as well
as the compiler options (like -mtune/-march) to reproduce this.

If we believe this is only a problem with GCC12 and 5.17 in Fedora, then
I would be inclined to remove the Fixes tag such that when we come up
with a more localized solution we do not have to revert "net: bcmgenet:
Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering" from stable
branches. This would be mostly a courtesy to our future selves, but an
argument could be made that this probably has always existed, and that
different compilers could behave more or less like GCC12.
--
Florian

2022-03-21 07:40:46

by Florian Fainelli

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On 3/9/22 8:53 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
> aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
> this is causing problems like:
>
> [ 210.074549] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 210.079223] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enabcm6e4ei0 (bcmgenet): transmit queue 1 timed out
> [ 210.086717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:529 dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.095044] Modules linked in: genet(E) nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat]
> [ 210.146561] ACPI CPPC: PCC check channel failed for ss: 0. ret=-110
> [ 210.146927] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G E 5.17.0-rc7G12+ #58
> [ 210.153226] CPPC Cpufreq:cppc_scale_freq_workfn: failed to read perf counters
> [ 210.161349] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4 Model B/Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, BIOS EDK2-DEV 02/08/2022
> [ 210.161353] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> [ 210.161358] pc : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.161364] lr : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.161368] sp : ffff8000080a3a40
> [ 210.161370] x29: ffff8000080a3a40 x28: ffffcd425af87000 x27: ffff8000080a3b20
> [ 210.205150] x26: ffffcd425aa00000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffcd425af8ec08
> [ 210.212321] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffffcd425af87000 x21: ffff55b142688000
> [ 210.219491] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff55b1426884c8 x18: ffffffffffffffff
> [ 210.226661] x17: 64656d6974203120 x16: 0000000000000001 x15: 6d736e617274203a
> [ 210.233831] x14: 2974656e65676d63 x13: ffffcd4259c300d8 x12: ffffcd425b07d5f0
> [ 210.241001] x11: 00000000ffffffff x10: ffffcd425b07d5f0 x9 : ffffcd4258bdad9c
> [ 210.248171] x8 : 00000000ffffdfff x7 : 000000000000003f x6 : 0000000000000000
> [ 210.255341] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000001000
> [ 210.262511] x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : 0000000000000005 x0 : 0000000000000044
> [ 210.269682] Call trace:
> [ 210.272133] dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.275811] call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x15c
> [ 210.279489] __run_timers.part.0+0x288/0x310
> [ 210.283777] run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
> [ 210.287716] __do_softirq+0x128/0x360
> [ 210.291392] __irq_exit_rcu+0x138/0x140
> [ 210.295243] irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x30
> [ 210.298745] el1_interrupt+0x38/0x54
> [ 210.302334] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
> [ 210.306445] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
> [ 210.309857] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x2c
> [ 210.313445] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x140
> [ 210.317470] cpuidle_idle_call+0x14c/0x1a0
> [ 210.321584] do_idle+0xb0/0x100
> [ 210.324737] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x8c
> [ 210.328675] secondary_start_kernel+0xe4/0x110
> [ 210.333138] __secondary_switched+0x94/0x98
>
> The assumption when these were relaxed seems to be that device memory
> would be mapped non reordering, and that other constructs
> (spinlocks/etc) would provide the barriers to assure that packet data
> and in memory rings/queues were ordered with respect to device
> register reads/writes. This itself seems a bit sketchy, but the real
> problem with GCC12 is that it is moving the actual reads/writes around
> at will as though they were independent operations when in truth they
> are not, but the compiler can't know that. When looking at the
> assembly dumps for many of these routines its possible to see very
> clean, but not strictly in program order operations occurring as the
> compiler would be free to do if these weren't actually register
> reads/write operations.
>
> Its possible to suppress the timeout with a liberal bit of dma_mb()'s
> sprinkled around but the device still seems unable to reliably
> send/receive data. A better plan is to use the safer readl/writel
> everywhere.
>
> Since this partially reverts an older commit, which notes the use of
> the relaxed variants for performance reasons. I would suggest that
> any performance problems with this commit are targeted at relaxing only
> the performance critical code paths after assuring proper barriers.
>
> Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
> Reported-by: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
--
Florian

2022-03-21 22:27:42

by Jakub Kicinski

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:01:20 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Given the time crunch we should go with Jeremy's patch that uses
> stronger I/O access method and then we will work with Jeremy offline to
> make sure that our version of GCC12 is exactly the same as his, as well
> as the compiler options (like -mtune/-march) to reproduce this.
>
> If we believe this is only a problem with GCC12 and 5.17 in Fedora, then
> I would be inclined to remove the Fixes tag such that when we come up
> with a more localized solution we do not have to revert "net: bcmgenet:
> Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering" from stable
> branches. This would be mostly a courtesy to our future selves, but an
> argument could be made that this probably has always existed, and that
> different compilers could behave more or less like GCC12.

Are you expecting this patch to make 5.17? If Linus cuts final this
weekend, as he most likely will, unless we do something special the
patch in question will end up getting merged during the merge window.
Without the Fixes tag you'll need to manually instruct Greg to pull
it in. Is that the plan?

2022-03-21 23:33:50

by Florian Fainelli

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On 3/21/22 14:26, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:04:34 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 3/9/22 8:53 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>>> GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
>>> aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
>>> this is causing problems like:
>
>>> Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
>>> Reported-by: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>
>>
>> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
>
> Commit 8d3ea3d402db ("net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes
> to assure ordering") in net now, thanks!

Thank you Jakub!
--
Florian

2022-03-21 23:38:31

by Jakub Kicinski

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:04:34 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 3/9/22 8:53 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> > GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
> > aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
> > this is causing problems like:

> > Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
> > Reported-by: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>

Commit 8d3ea3d402db ("net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes
to assure ordering") in net now, thanks!

2022-03-30 12:01:57

by Peter Robinson

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 4:54 AM Jeremy Linton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> GCC12 appears to be much smarter about its dependency tracking and is
> aware that the relaxed variants are just normal loads and stores and
> this is causing problems like:
>
> [ 210.074549] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 210.079223] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enabcm6e4ei0 (bcmgenet): transmit queue 1 timed out
> [ 210.086717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:529 dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.095044] Modules linked in: genet(E) nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat]
> [ 210.146561] ACPI CPPC: PCC check channel failed for ss: 0. ret=-110
> [ 210.146927] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G E 5.17.0-rc7G12+ #58
> [ 210.153226] CPPC Cpufreq:cppc_scale_freq_workfn: failed to read perf counters
> [ 210.161349] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi 4 Model B/Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, BIOS EDK2-DEV 02/08/2022
> [ 210.161353] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> [ 210.161358] pc : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.161364] lr : dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.161368] sp : ffff8000080a3a40
> [ 210.161370] x29: ffff8000080a3a40 x28: ffffcd425af87000 x27: ffff8000080a3b20
> [ 210.205150] x26: ffffcd425aa00000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffcd425af8ec08
> [ 210.212321] x23: 0000000000000100 x22: ffffcd425af87000 x21: ffff55b142688000
> [ 210.219491] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff55b1426884c8 x18: ffffffffffffffff
> [ 210.226661] x17: 64656d6974203120 x16: 0000000000000001 x15: 6d736e617274203a
> [ 210.233831] x14: 2974656e65676d63 x13: ffffcd4259c300d8 x12: ffffcd425b07d5f0
> [ 210.241001] x11: 00000000ffffffff x10: ffffcd425b07d5f0 x9 : ffffcd4258bdad9c
> [ 210.248171] x8 : 00000000ffffdfff x7 : 000000000000003f x6 : 0000000000000000
> [ 210.255341] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000001000
> [ 210.262511] x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : 0000000000000005 x0 : 0000000000000044
> [ 210.269682] Call trace:
> [ 210.272133] dev_watchdog+0x234/0x240
> [ 210.275811] call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x15c
> [ 210.279489] __run_timers.part.0+0x288/0x310
> [ 210.283777] run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
> [ 210.287716] __do_softirq+0x128/0x360
> [ 210.291392] __irq_exit_rcu+0x138/0x140
> [ 210.295243] irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x30
> [ 210.298745] el1_interrupt+0x38/0x54
> [ 210.302334] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
> [ 210.306445] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
> [ 210.309857] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x2c
> [ 210.313445] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x140
> [ 210.317470] cpuidle_idle_call+0x14c/0x1a0
> [ 210.321584] do_idle+0xb0/0x100
> [ 210.324737] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x8c
> [ 210.328675] secondary_start_kernel+0xe4/0x110
> [ 210.333138] __secondary_switched+0x94/0x98
>
> The assumption when these were relaxed seems to be that device memory
> would be mapped non reordering, and that other constructs
> (spinlocks/etc) would provide the barriers to assure that packet data
> and in memory rings/queues were ordered with respect to device
> register reads/writes. This itself seems a bit sketchy, but the real
> problem with GCC12 is that it is moving the actual reads/writes around
> at will as though they were independent operations when in truth they
> are not, but the compiler can't know that. When looking at the
> assembly dumps for many of these routines its possible to see very
> clean, but not strictly in program order operations occurring as the
> compiler would be free to do if these weren't actually register
> reads/write operations.
>
> Its possible to suppress the timeout with a liberal bit of dma_mb()'s
> sprinkled around but the device still seems unable to reliably
> send/receive data. A better plan is to use the safer readl/writel
> everywhere.
>
> Since this partially reverts an older commit, which notes the use of
> the relaxed variants for performance reasons. I would suggest that
> any performance problems with this commit are targeted at relaxing only
> the performance critical code paths after assuring proper barriers.
>
> Fixes: 69d2ea9c79898 ("net: bcmgenet: Use correct I/O accessors")
> Reported-by: Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>

This is now in Linus's tree as commit 8d3ea3d402db would be good to
get it int 5.17.x

> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> index 87f1056e29ff..e907a2df299c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static inline void bcmgenet_writel(u32 value, void __iomem *offset)
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN))
> __raw_writel(value, offset);
> else
> - writel_relaxed(value, offset);
> + writel(value, offset);
> }
>
> static inline u32 bcmgenet_readl(void __iomem *offset)
> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static inline u32 bcmgenet_readl(void __iomem *offset)
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN))
> return __raw_readl(offset);
> else
> - return readl_relaxed(offset);
> + return readl(offset);
> }
>
> static inline void dmadesc_set_length_status(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv,
> --
> 2.35.1
>