[PATCH] arm64: smp: avoid NMI IPIs with broken MediaTek FW

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Mon Oct 02 2023 - 13:00:36 EST


Some MediaTek devices have broken firmware which corrupts some GICR
registers behind the back of the OS, and pseudo-NMIs cannot be used on
these devices. For more details see commit:

44bd78dd2b8897f5 ("irqchip/gic-v3: Disable pseudo NMIs on Mediatek devices w/ firmware issues")

We did not take this problem into account in commit:

331a1b3a836c0f38 ("arm64: smp: Add arch support for backtrace using pseudo-NMI")

Since that commit arm64's SMP code will try to setup some IPIs as
pseudo-NMIs, even on systems with broken FW. The GICv3 code will
(rightly) reject attempts to request interrupts as pseudo-NMIs,
resulting in boot-time failures.

Avoid the problem by taking the broken FW into account when deciding to
request IPIs as pseudo-NMIs. The GICv3 driver maintains a static_key
named "supports_pseudo_nmis" which is false on systems with broken FW,
and we can consult this within ipi_should_be_nmi().

Fixes: 331a1b3a836c0f38 ("arm64: smp: Add arch support for backtrace using pseudo-NMI")
Reported-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/197061987#comment68
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 5 ++++-
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 814d9aa93b21b..061c69160f90f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -964,7 +964,10 @@ static void smp_cross_call(const struct cpumask *target, unsigned int ipinr)

static bool ipi_should_be_nmi(enum ipi_msg_type ipi)
{
- if (!system_uses_irq_prio_masking())
+ DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(supports_pseudo_nmis);
+
+ if (!system_uses_irq_prio_masking() ||
+ !static_branch_likely(&supports_pseudo_nmis))
return false;

switch (ipi) {
diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
index 787ccc880b22d..737da1b9aabf2 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(supports_deactivate_key);
* - Figure 4-7 Secure read of the priority field for a Non-secure Group 1
* interrupt.
*/
-static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(supports_pseudo_nmis);
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(supports_pseudo_nmis);

DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(gic_nonsecure_priorities);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(gic_nonsecure_priorities);
--
2.30.2