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SubjectRe: Kernel 6.7 regression doesn't boot if using AMD eGPU
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Hi Robin,

On 4/17/2024 4:06 PM, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2024-04-16 1:44 pm, Vasant Hegde wrote:
>> Robin,
>>
>> On 4/16/2024 4:55 PM, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>> On 2024-04-16 1:39 am, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:44:34PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-04-15 7:57 pm, Eric Wagner wrote:
>>>>>> Apologies if I made a mistake in the first bisect, I'm new to kernel
>>>>>> debugging.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tested cedc811c76778bdef91d405717acee0de54d8db5 (x86/amd) and
>>>>>> 3613047280ec42a4e1350fdc1a6dd161ff4008cc (core) directly and both were good.
>>>>>> Then I ran git bisect again with e8cca466a84a75f8ff2a7a31173c99ee6d1c59d2
>>>>>> as the bad and 6e6c6d6bc6c96c2477ddfea24a121eb5ee12b7a3 as the good and the
>>>>>> bisect log is attached. It ended up at the same commit as before.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've also attached a picture of the boot screen that occurs when it hangs.
>>>>>> 0000:05:00.0 is the PCIe bus address of the RX 580 eGPU that's causing the
>>>>>> problem.
>>
>> .../...
>>
>>>
>>> "Failing" iommu_probe_device is merely how we tell ourselves that we're not
>>> interested in a device, and consequently tell the rest of the kernel it
>>> doesn't have an IOMMU (via device_iommu_mapped() returning false). This is
>>> normal and expected for devices which legitimately have no IOMMU in the first
>>> place; conversely we don't do a great deal for unexpected failures since
>>> those typically represent system-fatal conditions whatever we might try to
>>> do. We've never had much of a notion of expected failures when an IOMMU *is*
>>> present, but even then, denying any trace of the IOMMU and removing ourselves
>>> from the picture is clearly not the ideal way to approach that. We're running
>>> off a bus notifier (or even later), so ultimately our return value is
>>> meaningless; at that point the device already exists and has been added to
>>> its bus, we can't undo that.
>>>
>>> However it looks to be even more fun if failure occurs in *deferred* default
>>> domain creation via bus_iommu_probe(), since then we give up and dismiss the
>>> entire IOMMU. Except the x86 drivers ignore the return from
>>> iommu_device_register(), so further hilarity ensues...
>>>
>>> I think I've now satisfied myself that a simple fix for the core code is
>>> appropriate and will write that up now; one other thing I couldn't quite
>>> figure out is whether the AMD driver somehow prevents PASIDs being used while
>>> the group is attached to a non-identity (and non-nested) domain - that's
>>> probably one for Vasant to confirm.
>>
>> AMD driver supports PASID with below domain type :
>>    - Identity domain
>>    - DMA translation mode (DMA and DMA_FQ) with AMD v2 page table
>> (amd_iommu=pgtbl_v2).
>>
>>
>> Currently amd_iommu_def_domain_type() tries to put PASID capable devices in
>> identity domain mode. This is something to fix. Its in my TODO list. I will
>> try to get into it soon.
>>
>> Hope this clarifies.
>
> Ooh, I see you now have GIoV to allow that similarly to how SMMUv3 does it -
> that wasn't in the older version of the spec that I've previously been referring
> to :)

Right. This got added later.

>
> Can you confirm there's no hardware actually been made to the older spec,
> supporting v2 and PASIDs but *not* having GIoV? Otherwise, I think you'll still
> have the problem that if you use the GPA-SPA translation in the DTE to implement
> IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA for the RID, it makes all the PASID GVA-GPA mappings useless
> for host SVA.

I believe we did made HW with old spec. Fortunately we have sufficient feature
bit to detect those feature support. I will have to carefully tweak the
amd_iommu_def_domain_type().

-Vasant

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