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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 12/16] powerpc/pseries/vas: Setup IRQ and fault
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From:   Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
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Date:   Thu, 03 Jun 2021 18:19:55 -0700
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On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 15:48 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Haren Myneni's message of May 21, 2021 7:39 pm:
> > NX generates an interrupt when sees a fault on the user space
> > buffer and the hypervisor forwards that interrupt to OS. Then
> > the kernel handles the interrupt by issuing H_GET_NX_FAULT hcall
> > to retrieve the fault CRB information.
> > 
> > This patch also adds changes to setup and free IRQ per each
> > window and also handles the fault by updating the CSB.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vas.c | 111
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 111 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vas.c
> > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vas.c
> > index ef0c455f6e93..31dc17573f50 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vas.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vas.c
> > @@ -224,6 +224,62 @@ int plpar_vas_query_capabilities(const u64
> > hcall, u8 query_type,
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(plpar_vas_query_capabilities);
> >  
> > +/*
> > + * HCALL to get fault CRB from pHyp.
> > + */
> > +static int plpar_get_nx_fault(u32 winid, u64 buffer)
> > +{
> > +	int64_t rc;
> > +
> > +	rc = plpar_hcall_norets(H_GET_NX_FAULT, winid, buffer);
> > +
> > +	switch (rc) {
> > +	case H_SUCCESS:
> > +		return 0;
> > +	case H_PARAMETER:
> > +		pr_err("HCALL(%x): Invalid window ID %u\n",
> > H_GET_NX_FAULT,
> > +		       winid);
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +	case H_STATE:
> > +		pr_err("HCALL(%x): No outstanding faults for window ID
> > %u\n",
> > +		       H_GET_NX_FAULT, winid);
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +	case H_PRIVILEGE:
> > +		pr_err("HCALL(%x): Window(%u): Invalid fault buffer
> > 0x%llx\n",
> > +		       H_GET_NX_FAULT, winid, buffer);
> > +		return -EACCES;
> > +	default:
> > +		pr_err("HCALL(%x): Unexpected error %lld for
> > window(%u)\n",
> > +		       H_GET_NX_FAULT, rc, winid);
> > +		return -EIO;
> > +	}
> > +}
> 
> Out of curiosity, you get one of these errors and it just drops the
> interrupt on the floor. Then what happens, I assume everything
> stops. Should it put some error in the csb, or signal the process or
> something? Or is there nothing very sane that can be done?

The user space polls on CSB with timout interval. If the kernel or NX
does not return, the request will be timeout.

The hypervisor returns the credit after H_GET_NX_FAULT HCALL is
successful. Also one credit is assigned for each window. So in this
case, the error is coming from the hypervisor and the application can
not issue another request on the same window. 

> 
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Handle the fault interrupt.
> > + * When the fault interrupt is received for each window, query
> > pHyp to get
> > + * the fault CRB on the specific fault. Then process the CRB by
> > updating
> > + * CSB or send signal if the user space CSB is invalid.
> > + * Note: pHyp forwards an interrupt for each fault request. So one
> > fault
> > + *	CRB to process for each H_GET_NX_FAULT HCALL.
> > + */
> > +irqreturn_t pseries_vas_fault_thread_fn(int irq, void *data)
> > +{
> > +	struct vas_window *txwin = data;
> > +	struct coprocessor_request_block crb;
> > +	struct vas_user_win_ref *tsk_ref;
> > +	int rc;
> > +
> > +	rc = plpar_get_nx_fault(txwin->winid, (u64)virt_to_phys(&crb));
> > +	if (!rc) {
> > +		tsk_ref = &txwin->task_ref;
> > +		vas_dump_crb(&crb);
> 
> This (and existing powernv vas code) is printk()ing a lot of lines
> per 
> fault. This should be pretty normal operation I think? It should
> avoid
> filling the kernel logs, if so. Particularly if it can be triggered
> by 
> userspace.
> 
> I know it's existing code, so could be fixed separately from the
> series.

printk messages are only if HCALL returns failure or kernel issue (ex:
not valid window and etc on powerNV). These errors should not be
depending on the iser space requests. So generally we should not get
these errors.  

> 
> 
> > +		vas_update_csb(&crb, tsk_ref);
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return IRQ_HANDLED;
> > +}
> > +