Re: acpi timer reads all ones [Was: efirtc + atrtc at the same time]

From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps_at_selasky.org>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 23:05:47 +0200
On 2020-05-27 15:41, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 06:27:16 -0700
> John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/27/20 2:39 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> On 27/05/2020 11:13, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> I added more diagnostics and it seems to support the idea that the
>>>> problem is related to I/O cycles and bridges.
>>>>
>>>> ACPI timer suddenly starts returning 0xffffffff and that lasts for
>>>> tens of microseconds before the timer goes back to returning
>>>> normal values with an expected increase.
>>>> AMD provides a proprietary way to access ACPI registers via MMIO
>>>> (0xfed808xx). That mechanism is unaffected, ACPI timer register
>>>> always returns good values.
>>>>
>>>> The problem seems to happen when restoring configuration of a
>>>> particular PCI bridge.  What's interesting is that the bridge
>>>> decodes one memory range and one I/O range.
>>>>
>>>> Looking at pci_cfg_restore() I wonder if it is wise to restore
>>>> PCIR_COMMAND so early.  Could it be that after the resume the
>>>> bridge is configured with a wrong I/O range (e.g., too wide) and
>>>> by writing PCIR_COMMAND we enable that decoding. So, the bridge
>>>> steals I/O cycles destined for ACPI support hardware.  If there is
>>>> nothing behind the bridge to handle those ports, then we get those
>>>> bad readings. Once the bridge configuration is fully restored, the
>>>> I/O handling goes back to normal.
>>>
>>>  From what I see, this looks like a BIOS bug.
>>> Upon resume, it swaps window configurations of pcib1 and pcib2
>>> (until FreeBSD restores them).  pcib1 originally does not have an
>>> I/O window.  So, BIOS programs both base and limit of pcib2 I/O
>>> window to zero.   When FreeBSD writes its command register to
>>> enable I/O decoding it starts claiming 0x0 - 0xFFF I/O port range.
>>> That covers the ACPI ports at 0x8xx.
>>>
>>> Some printf-s.
>>>  From (verbose) boot time:
>>> pcib1:   domain            0
>>> pcib1:   secondary bus     1
>>> pcib1:   subordinate bus   1
>>> pcib1:   memory decode     0xfea00000-0xfeafffff
>>> pcib2:   domain            0
>>> pcib2:   secondary bus     2
>>> pcib2:   subordinate bus   2
>>> pcib2:   I/O decode        0xf000-0xffff
>>> pcib2:   memory decode     0xfe900000-0xfe9fffff
>>>
>>> My printf-s from resume time:
>>> pcib1: old I/O base (low): 0xf1
>>> pcib1: old I/O base (high): 0x0
>>> pcib1: old I/O limit (low): 0x1
>>> pcib1: old I/O limit (high): 0x0
>>> pcib2: old I/O base (low): 0x1
>>> pcib2: old I/O base (high): 0x0
>>> pcib2: old I/O limit (low): 0x1
>>> pcib2: old I/O limit (high): 0x0
>>
>> The "solution" I think is to have resume be multi-pass and to resume
>> all the bridges first before trying to resume leaf devices (including
>> timers), but that's a fair bit of work.  It might be that we just
>> need to resume timer interrupts later after the new-bus resume (I
>> think we currently do it before?), though the reason for that was to
>> allow resume methods in devices to sleep (I'm not sure if any do).
>>
> 
> That sounds like a good fit for https://reviews.freebsd.org/D203 .
> Someone (TM) just needs to take it over the finish line... 6 years
> later.

Is this perhaps related to:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237666

--HPS
Received on Wed May 27 2020 - 19:06:12 UTC

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