On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 09:40:02AM +0000, Tianxianting wrote: > Hi Corey, > Thanks for your comments, > Please review these two patches, which are based on your guide. > 1, [PATCH] ipmi: print current state when error > https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/15/183 > 2, [PATCH] [v3] ipmi: retry to get device id when error > https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/15/156
Patches are applied and in my next tree. > > As you said "You are having the same issue in the ipmi_si code. It's choosing > defaults, but that's not ideal. You probably need to handle this there, too, > in a separate patch." > I am not sure whether I grasped what you said, > The print ' device id demangle failed: -22' in commit message, is just > triggered by bmc_device_id_handler->ipmi_demangle_device_id, this is the > issue we met and is solving. > I found try_get_dev_id(in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c) also called > ipmi_demangle_device_id(), do you mean if this ipmi_demangle_device_id() > returned error, we also need to retry? Yes, I think so, retrying in try_get_dev_id() would be a good idea, I think. You are probably getting sub-optimal performance if you don't do this. Thanks, -corey > > Thanks a lot. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Corey Minyard [mailto:tcminy...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Corey Minyard > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 11:40 PM > To: tianxianting (RD) <tian.xiant...@h3c.com> > Cc: a...@arndb.de; gre...@linuxfoundation.org; > openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] ipmi: retry to get device id when error > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:13:13PM +0800, Xianting Tian wrote: > > We can't get bmc's device id with low probability when loading ipmi > > driver, it caused bmc device register failed. When this issue > > happened, we got below kernel printks: > > This patch is moving in the right direction. For the final patch(es), I can > clean up the english grammar issues, since that's not your native language. > A few comments: > > > [Wed Sep 9 19:52:03 2020] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: IPMI message handler: > > device id demangle failed: -22 > > You are having the same issue in the ipmi_si code. It's choosing defaults, > but that's not ideal. You probably need to handle this there, too, in a > separate patch. > > Can you create a separate patch to add a dev_warn() to the BT code when it > returns IPMI_NOT_IN_MY_STATE_ERR, like I asked previously? And print the > current state when it happens. That way we know where this issue is coming > from and possibly fix the state machine. I'm thinking that the BMC is just > not responding, but I'd like to be sure. > > Other comments inline... > > > [Wed Sep 9 19:52:03 2020] IPMI BT: using default values > > [Wed Sep 9 19:52:03 2020] IPMI BT: req2rsp=5 secs retries=2 > > [Wed Sep 9 19:52:03 2020] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Unable to get the device > > id: -5 > > [Wed Sep 9 19:52:04 2020] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Unable to register > > device: error -5 > > > > When this issue happened, we want to manually unload the driver and > > try to load it again, but it can't be unloaded by 'rmmod' as it is already > > 'in use'. > > > > We add below 'printk' in handle_one_recv_msg(), when this issue > > happened, the msg we received is "Recv: 1c 01 d5", which means the > > data_len is 1, data[0] is 0xd5(completion code), which means "bmc cannot > > execute command. > > Command, or request parameter(s), not supported in present state". > > Debug code: > > static int handle_one_recv_msg(struct ipmi_smi *intf, > > struct ipmi_smi_msg *msg) { > > printk("Recv: %*ph\n", msg->rsp_size, msg->rsp); > > ... ... > > } > > Then in ipmi_demangle_device_id(), it returned '-EINVAL' as 'data_len < 7' > > and 'data[0] != 0'. > > > > We used this patch to retry to get device id when error happen, we > > reproduced this issue again and the retry succeed on the first retry, > > we finally got the correct msg and then all is ok: > > Recv: 1c 01 00 01 81 05 84 02 af db 07 00 01 00 b9 00 10 00 > > > > So use retry machanism in this patch to give bmc more opportunity to > > correctly response kernel when we received specific completion code. > > > > Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <tian.xiant...@h3c.com> > > --- > > drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > > include/uapi/linux/ipmi_msgdefs.h | 2 ++ > > 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c > > b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c > > index 737c0b6b2..07d5be2cd 100644 > > --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c > > +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c > > @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ > > #include <linux/uuid.h> > > #include <linux/nospec.h> > > #include <linux/vmalloc.h> > > +#include <linux/delay.h> > > > > #define IPMI_DRIVER_VERSION "39.2" > > > > @@ -60,6 +61,9 @@ enum ipmi_panic_event_op { #else #define > > IPMI_PANIC_DEFAULT IPMI_SEND_PANIC_EVENT_NONE #endif > > + > > +#define GET_DEVICE_ID_MAX_RETRY 5 > > + > > static enum ipmi_panic_event_op ipmi_send_panic_event = > > IPMI_PANIC_DEFAULT; > > > > static int panic_op_write_handler(const char *val, @@ -317,6 +321,7 > > @@ struct bmc_device { > > int dyn_guid_set; > > struct kref usecount; > > struct work_struct remove_work; > > + char cc; /* completion code */ > > }; > > #define to_bmc_device(x) container_of((x), struct bmc_device, > > pdev.dev) > > > > @@ -2381,6 +2386,8 @@ static void bmc_device_id_handler(struct ipmi_smi > > *intf, > > msg->msg.data, msg->msg.data_len, &intf->bmc->fetch_id); > > if (rv) { > > dev_warn(intf->si_dev, "device id demangle failed: %d\n", rv); > > + /* record completion code when error */ > > + intf->bmc->cc = msg->msg.data[0]; > > intf->bmc->dyn_id_set = 0; > > } else { > > /* > > @@ -2426,19 +2433,34 @@ send_get_device_id_cmd(struct ipmi_smi *intf) > > static int __get_device_id(struct ipmi_smi *intf, struct bmc_device > > *bmc) { > > int rv; > > - > > - bmc->dyn_id_set = 2; > > + unsigned int retry_count = 0; > > You need to initialize bmc->cc to 0 here. > > > > > intf->null_user_handler = bmc_device_id_handler; > > > > +retry: > > + bmc->dyn_id_set = 2; > > + > > rv = send_get_device_id_cmd(intf); > > if (rv) > > return rv; > > > > wait_event(intf->waitq, bmc->dyn_id_set != 2); > > > > - if (!bmc->dyn_id_set) > > + if (!bmc->dyn_id_set) { > > + if ((bmc->cc == IPMI_NOT_IN_MY_STATE_ERR > > + || bmc->cc == IPMI_NOT_IN_MY_STATE_ERR_1 > > + || bmc->cc == IPMI_NOT_IN_MY_STATE_ERR_2) > > + && ++retry_count <= GET_DEVICE_ID_MAX_RETRY) { > > + msleep(500); > > + dev_warn(intf->si_dev, > > + "retry to get bmc device id as completion code > > 0x%x\n", > > + bmc->cc); > > + bmc->cc = 0; > > + goto retry; > > + } > > + > > rv = -EIO; /* Something went wrong in the fetch. */ > > + } > > > > /* dyn_id_set makes the id data available. */ > > smp_rmb(); > > @@ -3245,7 +3267,6 @@ channel_handler(struct ipmi_smi *intf, struct > > ipmi_recv_msg *msg) > > /* It's the one we want */ > > if (msg->msg.data[0] != 0) { > > /* Got an error from the channel, just go on. */ > > - > > if (msg->msg.data[0] == IPMI_INVALID_COMMAND_ERR) { > > /* > > * If the MC does not support this diff --git > > a/include/uapi/linux/ipmi_msgdefs.h > > b/include/uapi/linux/ipmi_msgdefs.h > > index c2b23a9fd..46a0df434 100644 > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/ipmi_msgdefs.h > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ipmi_msgdefs.h > > @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ > > #define IPMI_REQ_LEN_INVALID_ERR 0xc7 > > #define IPMI_REQ_LEN_EXCEEDED_ERR 0xc8 > > #define IPMI_NOT_IN_MY_STATE_ERR 0xd5 /* IPMI 2.0 */ > > +#define IPMI_NOT_IN_MY_STATE_ERR_1 0xd1 > > For the above name, can you use IPMI_DEVICE_IN_FW_UPDATE_ERR to match the > spec? > > > +#define IPMI_NOT_IN_MY_STATE_ERR_2 0xd2 > > For the above name, can you use IPMI_DEVICE_IN_INIT_ERR to match the spec? > > Thanks, > > -corey > > > #define IPMI_LOST_ARBITRATION_ERR 0x81 > > #define IPMI_BUS_ERR 0x82 > > #define IPMI_NAK_ON_WRITE_ERR 0x83 > > -- > > 2.17.1 > > _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
