Re: [PATCHv3 2/4] drivers/base: utilize device tree info to shutdown devices

From: Pingfan Liu
Date: Thu Jul 05 2018 - 23:02:34 EST


On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:13 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, July 3, 2018 8:50:40 AM CEST Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > commit 52cdbdd49853 ("driver core: correct device's shutdown order")
> > places an assumption of supplier<-consumer order on the process of probe.
> > But it turns out to break down the parent <- child order in some scene.
> > E.g in pci, a bridge is enabled by pci core, and behind it, the devices
> > have been probed. Then comes the bridge's module, which enables extra
> > feature(such as hotplug) on this bridge. This will break the
> > parent<-children order and cause failure when "kexec -e" in some scenario.
> >
> > The detailed description of the scenario:
> > An IBM Power9 machine on which, two drivers portdrv_pci and shpchp(a mod)
> > match the PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_PCI, but neither of them success to probe due
> > to some issue. For this case, the bridge is moved after its children in
> > devices_kset. Then, when "kexec -e", a ata-disk behind the bridge can not
> > write back buffer in flight due to the former shutdown of the bridge which
> > clears the BusMaster bit.
> >
> > It is a little hard to impose both "parent<-child" and "supplier<-consumer"
> > order on devices_kset. Take the following scene:
> > step0: before a consumer's probing, (note child_a is supplier of consumer_a)
> > [ consumer-X, child_a, ...., child_z] [... consumer_a, ..., consumer_z, ...] supplier-X
> > ^^^^^^^^^^ affected range ^^^^^^^^^^
> > step1: when probing, moving consumer-X after supplier-X
> > [ child_a, ...., child_z] [.... consumer_a, ..., consumer_z, ...] supplier-X, consumer-X
> > step2: the children of consumer-X should be re-ordered to maintain the seq
> > [... consumer_a, ..., consumer_z, ....] supplier-X [consumer-X, child_a, ...., child_z]
> > step3: the consumer_a should be re-ordered to maintain the seq
> > [... consumer_z, ...] supplier-X [ consumer-X, child_a, consumer_a ..., child_z]
> >
> > It requires two nested recursion to drain out all out-of-order item in
> > "affected range". To avoid such complicated code, this patch suggests
> > to utilize the info in device tree, instead of using the order of
> > devices_kset during shutdown. It iterates the device tree, and firstly
> > shutdown a device's children and consumers. After this patch, the buggy
> > commit is hollow and left to clean.
> >
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/base/core.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > include/linux/device.h | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> > index a48868f..684b994 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> > @@ -1446,6 +1446,7 @@ void device_initialize(struct device *dev)
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->links.consumers);
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->links.suppliers);
> > dev->links.status = DL_DEV_NO_DRIVER;
> > + dev->shutdown = false;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_initialize);
> >
> > @@ -2811,7 +2812,6 @@ static void __device_shutdown(struct device *dev)
> > * lock is to be held
> > */
> > parent = get_device(dev->parent);
> > - get_device(dev);
>
> Why is the get_/put_device() not needed any more?
>
They are moved upper layer into device_for_each_child_shutdown().
Since there is lock breakage in __device_shutdown(), resorting to
ref++ to protect the ancestor. And I think the
get_device(dev->parent) can be deleted either.

> > /*
> > * Make sure the device is off the kset list, in the
> > * event that dev->*->shutdown() doesn't remove it.
> > @@ -2842,23 +2842,60 @@ static void __device_shutdown(struct device *dev)
> > dev_info(dev, "shutdown\n");
> > dev->driver->shutdown(dev);
> > }
> > -
> > + dev->shutdown = true;
> > device_unlock(dev);
> > if (parent)
> > device_unlock(parent);
> >
> > - put_device(dev);
> > put_device(parent);
> > spin_lock(&devices_kset->list_lock);
> > }
> >
> > +/* shutdown dev's children and consumer firstly, then itself */
> > +static int device_for_each_child_shutdown(struct device *dev)
>
> Confusing name.
>
> What about device_shutdown_subordinate()?
>
Fine. My understanding of words is not exact.

> > +{
> > + struct klist_iter i;
> > + struct device *child;
> > + struct device_link *link;
> > +
> > + /* already shutdown, then skip this sub tree */
> > + if (dev->shutdown)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > + if (!dev->p)
> > + goto check_consumers;
> > +
> > + /* there is breakage of lock in __device_shutdown(), and the redundant
> > + * ref++ on srcu protected consumer is harmless since shutdown is not
> > + * hot path.
> > + */
> > + get_device(dev);
> > +
> > + klist_iter_init(&dev->p->klist_children, &i);
> > + while ((child = next_device(&i)))
> > + device_for_each_child_shutdown(child);
>
> Why don't you use device_for_each_child() here?
>
OK, I will try use it.

> > + klist_iter_exit(&i);
> > +
> > +check_consumers:
> > + list_for_each_entry_rcu(link, &dev->links.consumers, s_node) {
> > + if (!link->consumer->shutdown)
> > + device_for_each_child_shutdown(link->consumer);
> > + }
> > +
> > + __device_shutdown(dev);
> > + put_device(dev);
>
> Possible reference counter imbalance AFAICS.
>
Yes, get_device() should be ahead of "if (!dev->p)". Is anything else I miss?

> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> Well, instead of doing this dance, we might as well walk dpm_list here as it
> is in the right order.
>
Sorry, do you mean that using the same way to manage the dpm_list?

> Of course, that would require dpm_list to be available for CONFIG_PM unset,
> but it may be a better approach long term.
>
> > +
> > /**
> > * device_shutdown - call ->shutdown() on each device to shutdown.
> > */
> > void device_shutdown(void)
> > {
> > struct device *dev;
> > + int idx;
> >
> > + idx = device_links_read_lock();
> > spin_lock(&devices_kset->list_lock);
> > /*
> > * Walk the devices list backward, shutting down each in turn.
> > @@ -2866,11 +2903,12 @@ void device_shutdown(void)
> > * devices offline, even as the system is shutting down.
> > */
> > while (!list_empty(&devices_kset->list)) {
> > - dev = list_entry(devices_kset->list.prev, struct device,
> > + dev = list_entry(devices_kset->list.next, struct device,
> > kobj.entry);
> > - __device_shutdown(dev);
> > + device_for_each_child_shutdown(dev);
> > }
> > spin_unlock(&devices_kset->list_lock);
> > + device_links_read_unlock(idx);
> > }
> >
> > /*
> > diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> > index 055a69d..8a0f784 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/device.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> > @@ -1003,6 +1003,7 @@ struct device {
> > bool offline:1;
> > bool of_node_reused:1;
> > bool dma_32bit_limit:1;
> > + bool shutdown:1; /* one direction: false->true */
> > };
> >
> > static inline struct device *kobj_to_dev(struct kobject *kobj)
> >
>
> If the device_kset_move_last() in really_probe() is the only problem,
> I'd rather try to fix that one in the first place.
>
> Why is it needed?
>
I had tried, but it turns out not easy to archive. The code is
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10485195/. And I make a detailed
description of the algorithm in this patch's commit log. To be more
detailed, we face the potential out of order issue in really_probe()
like : 0th. [ consumer-X, child_a, ...., child_z] [... consumer_a,
..., consumer_z, ...] supplier-X //(note child_a is supplier of
consumer_a). To address all the potential out of order item in the
affected section [... consumer_a, ..., consumer_z, ...], it will
incur two nested recursions. 1st, moving consumer-X and its
descendants after supplier-X, 2nd, moving consumer_a after child_a,
3rd. the 2nd step may pose the same situation of 0th. Besides the two
interleaved recursion, the breakage of spin lock requires more effort
to protect the item from disappearing in linked-list (which I did not
implement in the https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10485195/). Hence
I turn to this cheap method.

Thanks,
Pingfan