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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 5/5] ALSA: emu10k1: add a IOMMU workaround
On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:42:59 +0100,
Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>
> The Audigy 2 CA0102 chip (but most likely others from the emu10k1 family,
> too) has a problem that from time to time it likes to do few DMA reads a
> bit beyond its normal allocation and gets very confused if these reads get
> blocked by a IOMMU.
>
> For the first (reserved) page this happens multiple times at every
> playback, for various synth pages it happens randomly, rarely for PCM
> playback buffers and the page table memory itself.
> All these reads seem to follow a similar pattern, observed read offsets
> beyond the allocation end were 0x00, 0x40, 0x80 and 0xc0 (PCI cache line
> multiples), so it looks like the device tries to accesses up to 256 extra
> bytes.
>
> As a workaround let's widen these DMA allocations by an extra page if we
> detect that the device is behind a non-passthrough IOMMU (the DMA memory
> should be relatively plenty on IOMMU systems).
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
> ---
> Changes from v1: Apply this workaround also to PCM playback buffers since
> it seems they are affected, too.

Instead of adjusting the allocation size in the caller side, how about
adding a new helper to wrap around the call of snd_dma_alloc_pages()?

We may need a counterpart to free pages in synth, but it's a single
place in __synth_free_pages(), so it can be open-coded with some
proper comments, too.


thanks,

Takashi

>
> include/sound/emu10k1.h | 1 +
> sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> sound/pci/emu10k1/emupcm.c | 9 +++++++-
> sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c | 16 ++++++++++---
> 4 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/sound/emu10k1.h b/include/sound/emu10k1.h
> index db32b7de52e0..ba27abf65408 100644
> --- a/include/sound/emu10k1.h
> +++ b/include/sound/emu10k1.h
> @@ -1710,6 +1710,7 @@ struct snd_emu10k1 {
> unsigned int ecard_ctrl; /* ecard control bits */
> unsigned int address_mode; /* address mode */
> unsigned long dma_mask; /* PCI DMA mask */
> + bool iommu_workaround; /* IOMMU workaround needed */
> unsigned int delay_pcm_irq; /* in samples */
> int max_cache_pages; /* max memory size / PAGE_SIZE */
> struct snd_dma_buffer silent_page; /* silent page */
> diff --git a/sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c b/sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c
> index 8decd2a7a404..3638bff26d23 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
> #include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> +#include <linux/iommu.h>
> #include <linux/pci.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> @@ -1758,6 +1759,38 @@ static struct snd_emu_chip_details emu_chip_details[] = {
> { } /* terminator */
> };
>
> +/*
> + * The chip (at least the Audigy 2 CA0102 chip, but most likely others, too)
> + * has a problem that from time to time it likes to do few DMA reads a bit
> + * beyond its normal allocation and gets very confused if these reads get
> + * blocked by a IOMMU.
> + *
> + * This behaviour has been observed for the first (reserved) page
> + * (for which it happens multiple times at every playback), often for various
> + * synth pages and sometimes for PCM playback buffers and the page table
> + * memory itself.
> + *
> + * As a workaround let's widen these DMA allocations by an extra page if we
> + * detect that the device is behind a non-passthrough IOMMU.
> + */
> +static void snd_emu10k1_detect_iommu(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu)
> +{
> + struct iommu_domain *domain;
> +
> + emu->iommu_workaround = false;
> +
> + if (!iommu_present(emu->card->dev->bus))
> + return;
> +
> + domain = iommu_get_domain_for_dev(emu->card->dev);
> + if (domain && domain->type == IOMMU_DOMAIN_IDENTITY)
> + return;
> +
> + dev_notice(emu->card->dev,
> + "non-passthrough IOMMU detected, widening DMA allocations");
> + emu->iommu_workaround = true;
> +}
> +
> int snd_emu10k1_create(struct snd_card *card,
> struct pci_dev *pci,
> unsigned short extin_mask,
> @@ -1770,6 +1803,7 @@ int snd_emu10k1_create(struct snd_card *card,
> struct snd_emu10k1 *emu;
> int idx, err;
> int is_audigy;
> + size_t page_table_size, silent_page_size;
> unsigned int silent_page;
> const struct snd_emu_chip_details *c;
> static struct snd_device_ops ops = {
> @@ -1867,6 +1901,8 @@ int snd_emu10k1_create(struct snd_card *card,
>
> is_audigy = emu->audigy = c->emu10k2_chip;
>
> + snd_emu10k1_detect_iommu(emu);
> +
> /* set addressing mode */
> emu->address_mode = is_audigy ? 0 : 1;
> /* set the DMA transfer mask */
> @@ -1893,8 +1929,13 @@ int snd_emu10k1_create(struct snd_card *card,
> emu->port = pci_resource_start(pci, 0);
>
> emu->max_cache_pages = max_cache_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> + page_table_size = sizeof(u32) * (emu->address_mode ? MAXPAGES1 :
> + MAXPAGES0);
> + if (emu->iommu_workaround)
> + page_table_size += PAGE_SIZE;
> if (snd_dma_alloc_pages(SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV, snd_dma_pci_data(pci),
> - (emu->address_mode ? 32 : 16) * 1024, &emu->ptb_pages) < 0) {
> + page_table_size, &emu->ptb_pages) < 0) {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> goto error;
> }
> @@ -1910,8 +1951,11 @@ int snd_emu10k1_create(struct snd_card *card,
> goto error;
> }
>
> + silent_page_size = EMUPAGESIZE;
> + if (emu->iommu_workaround)
> + silent_page_size *= 2;
> if (snd_dma_alloc_pages(SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV, snd_dma_pci_data(pci),
> - EMUPAGESIZE, &emu->silent_page) < 0) {
> + silent_page_size, &emu->silent_page) < 0) {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> goto error;
> }
> @@ -1995,7 +2039,7 @@ int snd_emu10k1_create(struct snd_card *card,
> 0x00000000 | SPCS_EMPHASIS_NONE | SPCS_COPYRIGHT;
>
> /* Clear silent pages and set up pointers */
> - memset(emu->silent_page.area, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
> + memset(emu->silent_page.area, 0, silent_page_size);
> silent_page = emu->silent_page.addr << emu->address_mode;
> for (idx = 0; idx < (emu->address_mode ? MAXPAGES1 : MAXPAGES0); idx++)
> ((u32 *)emu->ptb_pages.area)[idx] = cpu_to_le32(silent_page | idx);
> diff --git a/sound/pci/emu10k1/emupcm.c b/sound/pci/emu10k1/emupcm.c
> index 2683b9717215..80b3279692b8 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/emu10k1/emupcm.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/emu10k1/emupcm.c
> @@ -411,12 +411,19 @@ static int snd_emu10k1_playback_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
> struct snd_emu10k1 *emu = snd_pcm_substream_chip(substream);
> struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime;
> struct snd_emu10k1_pcm *epcm = runtime->private_data;
> + size_t alloc_size;
> int err;
>
> if ((err = snd_emu10k1_pcm_channel_alloc(epcm, params_channels(hw_params))) < 0)
> return err;
> - if ((err = snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages(substream, params_buffer_bytes(hw_params))) < 0)
> +
> + alloc_size = params_buffer_bytes(hw_params);
> + if (emu->iommu_workaround)
> + alloc_size += EMUPAGESIZE;
> + if ((err = snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages(substream, alloc_size)) < 0)
> return err;
> + if (emu->iommu_workaround && runtime->dma_bytes >= EMUPAGESIZE)
> + runtime->dma_bytes -= EMUPAGESIZE;
> if (err > 0) { /* change */
> int mapped;
> if (epcm->memblk != NULL)
> diff --git a/sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c b/sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c
> index 5cdffe2d31e1..6a5371d10dcf 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c
> @@ -457,6 +457,16 @@ static void get_single_page_range(struct snd_util_memhdr *hdr,
> *last_page_ret = last_page;
> }
>
> +static size_t synth_get_alloc_size(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu)
> +{
> + size_t alloc_size = PAGE_SIZE;
> +
> + if (emu->iommu_workaround)
> + alloc_size *= 2;
> +
> + return alloc_size;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * allocate kernel pages
> */
> @@ -471,7 +481,7 @@ static int synth_alloc_pages(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu, struct snd_emu10k1_memblk
> for (page = first_page; page <= last_page; page++) {
> if (snd_dma_alloc_pages(SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV,
> snd_dma_pci_data(emu->pci),
> - PAGE_SIZE, &dmab) < 0)
> + synth_get_alloc_size(emu), &dmab) < 0)
> goto __fail;
> if (!is_valid_page(emu, dmab.addr)) {
> snd_dma_free_pages(&dmab);
> @@ -488,7 +498,7 @@ static int synth_alloc_pages(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu, struct snd_emu10k1_memblk
> for (page = first_page; page <= last_page; page++) {
> dmab.area = emu->page_ptr_table[page];
> dmab.addr = emu->page_addr_table[page];
> - dmab.bytes = PAGE_SIZE;
> + dmab.bytes = synth_get_alloc_size(emu);
> snd_dma_free_pages(&dmab);
> emu->page_addr_table[page] = 0;
> emu->page_ptr_table[page] = NULL;
> @@ -513,7 +523,7 @@ static int synth_free_pages(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu, struct snd_emu10k1_memblk *
> continue;
> dmab.area = emu->page_ptr_table[page];
> dmab.addr = emu->page_addr_table[page];
> - dmab.bytes = PAGE_SIZE;
> + dmab.bytes = synth_get_alloc_size(emu);
> snd_dma_free_pages(&dmab);
> emu->page_addr_table[page] = 0;
> emu->page_ptr_table[page] = NULL;
>

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