Re: [PATCH v2] xen/arm: vpl011: Make access to DMACR write-ignore

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 22/11/2022 05:46, Jiamei Xie wrote:
> When the guest kernel enables DMA engine with "CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE=y",
> Linux SBSA PL011 driver will access PL011 DMACR register in some
> functions. As chapter "B Generic UART" in "ARM Server Base System
> Architecture"[1] documentation describes, SBSA UART doesn't support
> DMA. In current code, when the kernel tries to access DMACR register,
> Xen will inject a data abort:
> Unhandled fault at 0xffffffc00944d048
> Mem abort info:
>    ESR = 0x96000000
>    EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
>    SET = 0, FnV = 0
>    EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
>    FSC = 0x00: ttbr address size fault
> Data abort info:
>    ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000000
>    CM = 0, WnR = 0
> swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000020e2e000
> [ffffffc00944d048] pgd=100000003ffff803, p4d=100000003ffff803, 
> pud=100000003ffff803, pmd=100000003fffa803, pte=006800009c090f13
> Internal error: ttbr address size fault: 96000000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> ...
> Call trace:
>   pl011_stop_rx+0x70/0x80
>   tty_port_shutdown+0x7c/0xb4
>   tty_port_close+0x60/0xcc
>   uart_close+0x34/0x8c
>   tty_release+0x144/0x4c0
>   __fput+0x78/0x220
>   ____fput+0x1c/0x30
>   task_work_run+0x88/0xc0
>   do_notify_resume+0x8d0/0x123c
>   el0_svc+0xa8/0xc0
>   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x130
>   el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
> Code: b9000083 b901f001 794038a0 8b000042 (b9000041)
> ---[ end trace 83dd93df15c3216f ]---
> note: bootlogd[132] exited with preempt_count 1
> /etc/rcS.d/S07bootlogd: line 47: 132 Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon
>
> As discussed in [2], this commit makes the access to DMACR register
> write-ignore as an improvement.
Didn't we agree to emulate all non-SBSA registers as WI? IOW, the 
default case should contain a 'goto write_ignore' rather return 0.
> [1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0094/c/?lang=en
> [2] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2211161552420.4020@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop/
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiamei Xie <jiamei.xie@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>   xen/arch/arm/vpl011.c | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/vpl011.c b/xen/arch/arm/vpl011.c
> index 43522d48fd..e97fe3ebe7 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/vpl011.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/vpl011.c
> @@ -463,6 +463,10 @@ static int vpl011_mmio_write(struct vcpu *v,
>       case FR:
>       case RIS:
>       case MIS:
> +    case DMACR:
> +        printk(XENLOG_G_DEBUG
> +               "vpl011: WI on register offset %#08x\n",
> +               vpl011_reg);
IMHO, this message should be printed just after the write_ignore label.

>           goto write_ignore;
>   
>       case IMSC:
Cheers,

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Julien Grall