Re: [PATCH v2] nvme-pci: Support shared tags across queues for Apple 2018 controllers

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Fri Jul 19 2019 - 00:50:18 EST


On Fri, 2019-07-19 at 04:43 +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 2019/07/19 13:37, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Another issue with the Apple T2 based 2018 controllers seem to be
> > that they blow up (and shut the machine down) if there's a tag
> > collision between the IO queue and the Admin queue.
> >
> > My suspicion is that they use our tags for their internal tracking
> > and don't mix them with the queue id. They also seem to not like
> > when tags go beyond the IO queue depth, ie 128 tags.
> >
> > This adds a quirk that offsets all the tags in the IO queue by 32
> > to avoid those collisions. It also limits the number of IO queues
> > to 1 since the code wouldn't otherwise make sense (the device
> > supports only one queue anyway but better safe than sorry) and
> > reduces the size of the IO queue
>
> What about keeping the IO queue QD at 128, but marking the first 32 tags as
> "allocated" when the device is initialized ? This way, these tags numbers are
> never used for regular IOs and you can avoid the entire tag +/- offset dance at
> runtime. The admin queue uses tags 0-31 and the IO queue uses tags 32-127. No ?

I suppose that would work and be simpler. I honestly don't know much
about the block layer and tag allocation so I stayed away from it :-)

I'll dig, but a hint would be welcome :)

Cheers,
Ben.

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Note: One thing I noticed is how we have nvme_completion as volatile.
> >
> > I don't think we really need that, it's forcing the compiler to constantly
> > reload things which makes no sense once we have established that an
> > entry is valid.
> >
> > And since we have a data & control dependency from nvme_cqe_pending(),
> > we know that reading the CQE is going to depend on it being valid. I
> > don't really see what volatile is buying us here other than cargo culting.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben.
> >
> > drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 5 ++++
> > drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
> > index ced0e0a7e039..7c6de398de7d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
> > +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
> > @@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ enum nvme_quirks {
> > * Use non-standard 128 bytes SQEs.
> > */
> > NVME_QUIRK_128_BYTES_SQES = (1 << 11),
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Prevent tag overlap between queues
> > + */
> > + NVME_QUIRK_SHARED_TAGS = (1 << 12),
> > };
> >
> > /*
> > diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> > index 7088971d4c42..c38e946ad8ca 100644
> > --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> > @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ struct nvme_queue {
> > u16 cq_head;
> > u16 last_cq_head;
> > u16 qid;
> > + u16 tag_offset;
> > u8 cq_phase;
> > u8 sqes;
> > unsigned long flags;
> > @@ -490,6 +491,7 @@ static void nvme_submit_cmd(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, struct nvme_command *cmd,
> > bool write_sq)
> > {
> > spin_lock(&nvmeq->sq_lock);
> > + cmd->common.command_id += nvmeq->tag_offset;
> > memcpy(nvmeq->sq_cmds + (nvmeq->sq_tail << nvmeq->sqes),
> > cmd, sizeof(*cmd));
> > if (++nvmeq->sq_tail == nvmeq->q_depth)
> > @@ -951,9 +953,10 @@ static inline void nvme_ring_cq_doorbell(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq)
> > static inline void nvme_handle_cqe(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, u16 idx)
> > {
> > volatile struct nvme_completion *cqe = &nvmeq->cqes[idx];
> > + u16 ctag = cqe->command_id - nvmeq->tag_offset;
> > struct request *req;
> >
> > - if (unlikely(cqe->command_id >= nvmeq->q_depth)) {
> > + if (unlikely(ctag >= nvmeq->q_depth)) {
> > dev_warn(nvmeq->dev->ctrl.device,
> > "invalid id %d completed on queue %d\n",
> > cqe->command_id, le16_to_cpu(cqe->sq_id));
> > @@ -966,14 +969,13 @@ static inline void nvme_handle_cqe(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, u16 idx)
> > * aborts. We don't even bother to allocate a struct request
> > * for them but rather special case them here.
> > */
> > - if (unlikely(nvmeq->qid == 0 &&
> > - cqe->command_id >= NVME_AQ_BLK_MQ_DEPTH)) {
> > + if (unlikely(nvmeq->qid == 0 && ctag >= NVME_AQ_BLK_MQ_DEPTH)) {
> > nvme_complete_async_event(&nvmeq->dev->ctrl,
> > cqe->status, &cqe->result);
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > - req = blk_mq_tag_to_rq(*nvmeq->tags, cqe->command_id);
> > + req = blk_mq_tag_to_rq(*nvmeq->tags, ctag);
> > trace_nvme_sq(req, cqe->sq_head, nvmeq->sq_tail);
> > nvme_end_request(req, cqe->status, cqe->result);
> > }
> > @@ -1004,7 +1006,10 @@ static inline int nvme_process_cq(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, u16 *start,
> >
> > *start = nvmeq->cq_head;
> > while (nvme_cqe_pending(nvmeq)) {
> > - if (tag == -1U || nvmeq->cqes[nvmeq->cq_head].command_id == tag)
> > + u16 ctag = nvmeq->cqes[nvmeq->cq_head].command_id;
> > +
> > + ctag -= nvmeq->tag_offset;
> > + if (tag == -1U || ctag == tag)
> > found++;
> > nvme_update_cq_head(nvmeq);
> > }
> > @@ -1487,6 +1492,10 @@ static int nvme_alloc_queue(struct nvme_dev *dev, int qid, int depth)
> > nvmeq->qid = qid;
> > dev->ctrl.queue_count++;
> >
> > + if (qid && (dev->ctrl.quirks & NVME_QUIRK_SHARED_TAGS))
> > + nvmeq->tag_offset = NVME_AQ_DEPTH;
> > + else
> > + nvmeq->tag_offset = 0;
> > return 0;
> >
> > free_cqdma:
> > @@ -2106,6 +2115,14 @@ static int nvme_setup_io_queues(struct nvme_dev *dev)
> > unsigned long size;
> >
> > nr_io_queues = max_io_queues();
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * If tags are shared with admin queue (Apple bug), then
> > + * make sure we only use one queue.
> > + */
> > + if (dev->ctrl.quirks & NVME_QUIRK_SHARED_TAGS)
> > + nr_io_queues = 1;
> > +
> > result = nvme_set_queue_count(&dev->ctrl, &nr_io_queues);
> > if (result < 0)
> > return result;
> > @@ -2300,6 +2317,7 @@ static int nvme_pci_enable(struct nvme_dev *dev)
> > {
> > int result = -ENOMEM;
> > struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev->dev);
> > + unsigned int mqes;
> >
> > if (pci_enable_device_mem(pdev))
> > return result;
> > @@ -2325,8 +2343,8 @@ static int nvme_pci_enable(struct nvme_dev *dev)
> >
> > dev->ctrl.cap = lo_hi_readq(dev->bar + NVME_REG_CAP);
> >
> > - dev->q_depth = min_t(int, NVME_CAP_MQES(dev->ctrl.cap) + 1,
> > - io_queue_depth);
> > + mqes = NVME_CAP_MQES(dev->ctrl.cap);
> > + dev->q_depth = min_t(int, mqes + 1, io_queue_depth);
> > dev->db_stride = 1 << NVME_CAP_STRIDE(dev->ctrl.cap);
> > dev->dbs = dev->bar + 4096;
> >
> > @@ -2340,6 +2358,23 @@ static int nvme_pci_enable(struct nvme_dev *dev)
> > else
> > dev->io_sqes = NVME_NVM_IOSQES;
> >
> > + /*
> > + * Another Apple one: If we're going to offset the IO queue tags,
> > + * we still want to make sure they are no bigger than MQES,
> > + * it *looks* like otherwise, bad things happen (I suspect some
> > + * of the tag tracking in that device is limited).
> > + */
> > + if (dev->ctrl.quirks & NVME_QUIRK_SHARED_TAGS) {
> > + if (mqes <= NVME_AQ_DEPTH) {
> > + dev_err(dev->ctrl.device, "Apple shared tags quirk"
> > + " not compatible with device mqes %d\n", mqes);
> > + result = -ENODEV;
> > + goto disable;
> > + }
> > + dev->q_depth = min_t(int, dev->q_depth,
> > + mqes - NVME_AQ_DEPTH + 1);
> > + }
> > +
> > /*
> > * Temporary fix for the Apple controller found in the MacBook8,1 and
> > * some MacBook7,1 to avoid controller resets and data loss.
> > @@ -3057,7 +3092,8 @@ static const struct pci_device_id nvme_id_table[] = {
> > { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_APPLE, 0x2003) },
> > { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_APPLE, 0x2005),
> > .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_SINGLE_VECTOR |
> > - NVME_QUIRK_128_BYTES_SQES },
> > + NVME_QUIRK_128_BYTES_SQES |
> > + NVME_QUIRK_SHARED_TAGS },
> > { 0, }
> > };
> > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, nvme_id_table);
> >
> >
> >
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