Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:05:17 +0530 | From | Sai Prakash Ranjan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu: Demote error messages to debug in shutdown callback |
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Hi Robin,
On 2020-03-28 00:32, Robin Murphy wrote: > On 2020-03-27 3:09 pm, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote: > > Imagine your network driver doesn't implement a .shutdown method (so > the hardware is still active regardless of device links), happens to > have an Rx buffer or descriptor ring DMA-mapped at an IOVA that looks > like the physical address of the memory containing some part of the > kernel text lower down that call stack, and the MAC receives a > broadcast IP packet at about the point arm_smmu_device_shutdown() is > returning. Enjoy debugging that ;) > > And if coincidental memory corruption seems too far-fetched for your > liking, other fun alternatives might include "display tries to scan > out from powered-off device, deadlocks interconnect and prevents > anything else making progress", or "access to TZC-protected physical > address triggers interrupt and over-eager Secure firmware resets > system before orderly poweroff has a chance to finish". > > Of course the fact that in practice we'll *always* see the warning > because there's no way to tear down the default DMA domains, and even > if all devices *have* been nicely quiesced there's no way to tell, is > certainly less than ideal. Like I say, it's not entirely clear-cut > either way... >
Thanks for these examples, good to know these scenarios in case we come across these. However, if we see these error/warning messages appear everytime then what will be the credibility of these messages? We will just ignore these messages when these issues you mention actually appears because we see them everytime on reboot or shutdown. So doesn't it make sense to enable these only when we are debugging? We could argue that how will we know the issue could be related to SMMU, but that's the case even now.
The reason why this came up was that, we had a NOC(interconnect) error which does have a logging atleast in QCOM platforms from the secure side(it prints these on the console) after the SMMU err messages and there was a confusion if it was related to these messages. However, NOC error messages did identify the issue with the USB and it was solved later. So these SMMU err/warning messages could be misleading like the above case almost everytime.
The probability of the issues you mentioned occuring is very less than the actual reboot, shutdown scenarios, for ex: we run reboot stress test for thousands of times and these messages don't add anything special in those cases when any issue occurs because they are seen everytime.
Thanks, Sai -- QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation
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