[alsa-devel] [PATCH 08/12] ASoC: SOF: ipc: fix a race, leading to IPC timeouts

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

Hi Takashi,

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 09:20:55AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 22:27:00 +0200,
> Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > 
> > From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <guennadi.liakhovetski at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Currently on all supported platforms the IPC IRQ thread first signals
> > the sender when an IPC response is received from the DSP, then
> > unmasks the IPC interrupt. Those actions are performed without
> > holding any locks, so the thread can be interrupted between them. IPC
> > timeouts have been observed in such scenarios: if the sender is woken
> > up and it proceeds with sending the next message without unmasking
> > the IPC interrupt, it can miss the next response. This patch takes a
> > spin-lock to prevent the IRQ thread from being preempted at that
> > point. It also makes sure, that the next IPC transmission by the host
> > cannot take place before the IRQ thread has finished updating all the
> > required IPC registers.
> > 
> > Fixes: 53e0c72d98b ("ASoC: SOF: Add support for IPC IO between DSP and Host")
> > Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <guennadi.liakhovetski at linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  sound/soc/sof/intel/bdw.c     | 11 ++++++-----
> >  sound/soc/sof/intel/byt.c     | 12 +++++++-----
> >  sound/soc/sof/intel/cnl.c     |  6 ++++++
> >  sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-ipc.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
> >  sound/soc/sof/ipc.c           | 13 -------------
> >  5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/intel/bdw.c b/sound/soc/sof/intel/bdw.c
> > index 065cb868bdfa..9dfdc02192b7 100644
> > --- a/sound/soc/sof/intel/bdw.c
> > +++ b/sound/soc/sof/intel/bdw.c
> > @@ -278,11 +278,15 @@ static irqreturn_t bdw_irq_thread(int irq, void *context)
> >  	/* reply message from DSP */
> >  	if (ipcx & SHIM_IPCX_DONE &&
> >  	    !(imrx & SHIM_IMRX_DONE)) {
> > +		unsigned long flags;
> > +
> >  		/* Mask Done interrupt before return */
> >  		snd_sof_dsp_update_bits_unlocked(sdev, BDW_DSP_BAR,
> >  						 SHIM_IMRX, SHIM_IMRX_DONE,
> >  						 SHIM_IMRX_DONE);
> > +		spin_lock_irqsave(&sdev->ipc_lock, flags);
> 
> Here is an threaded irq handler, so the irqflag is superfluous.
> You can use spin_lock_irq() and spin_unlock_irq().

Oh, sure, thanks for catching this! That was a blind moving of the
spin-lock from lower-level functions. I'll send an updated version to
Pierre, unless you want to apply it immediately, in which case I can
send it to you now.

> > diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/intel/byt.c b/sound/soc/sof/intel/byt.c
> > index 7bf9143d3106..5a11a104110b 100644
> > --- a/sound/soc/sof/intel/byt.c
> > +++ b/sound/soc/sof/intel/byt.c
> > @@ -324,11 +324,16 @@ static irqreturn_t byt_irq_thread(int irq, void *context)
> >  	/* reply message from DSP */
> >  	if (ipcx & SHIM_BYT_IPCX_DONE &&
> >  	    !(imrx & SHIM_IMRX_DONE)) {
> > +		unsigned long flags;
> > +
> >  		/* Mask Done interrupt before first */
> >  		snd_sof_dsp_update_bits64_unlocked(sdev, BYT_DSP_BAR,
> >  						   SHIM_IMRX,
> >  						   SHIM_IMRX_DONE,
> >  						   SHIM_IMRX_DONE);
> 
> BTW, is this usage of _unlocked() version safe?  The previous one also
> contained that, and I wonder why _unlocked variant must be used here.

Some of those uses seem rather fragile to me too, but it looks like they
*should* be safe in normal cases. There seem to be a potential problem
on Broadwell, where an ISR is first configured, which uses *_unlocked()
to access the SHIM_IMRX register, and then bdw_set_dsp_D0() is called,
which also touches that register. So, it's relying on the fact, that no
IPC interrupts will occur until probing is completed. This should also
normally be the case, but if for some reason such an interrupt does
trigger at that time, access to that register can be messed up. This
should be reviewed and possibly refined separately.

Thanks
Guennadi


> thanks,
> 
> Takashi