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

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 14:38:24 -0700
On 5/27/20 2:05 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> 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

No.  I get that constantly on a desktop that never suspends/resumes.
It only started after upgrading to 12.0.

-- 
John Baldwin
Received on Wed May 27 2020 - 19:38:26 UTC

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