skiboot-6.0

skiboot v6.0 was released on Friday May 11th 2018. It is the first release of skiboot 6.0, which is the new stable release of skiboot following the 5.11 release, first released April 6th 2018.

Skiboot 6.0 is the basis for op-build v2.0 and will is required for POWER9 systems.

skiboot v6.0 contains all bug fixes as of skiboot-5.11, skiboot-5.10.5, and skiboot-5.4.9 (the currently maintained stable releases). We do not expect any further stable releases in the 5.10.x series, nor in the 5.11.x series.

For how the skiboot stable releases work, see Skiboot stable tree rules and releases for details.

Over skiboot-5.11, we have the following changes:

New Features

Since 6.0-rc1:

  • Update default stop-state-disable mask to cut only stop11

    Stability improvements in microcode for stop4/stop5 are available in upstream hcode images. Stop4 and stop5 can be safely enabled by default.

    Use ~0xE0000000 to cut all but stop0,1,2 in case there are any issues with stop4/5.

    example:

    nvram -p ibm,skiboot --update-config opal-stop-state-disable-mask=0x1FFFFFFF
    

    Note: that DD2.1 chips that have a frequency <1867Mhz possible need to run a hcode image different than the default in op-build (set BR2_HCODE_LATEST_VERSION=y in your config)

  • ibm,firmware-versions: add hcode to device tree

    op-build commit 736a08b996e292a449c4996edb264011dfe56a40 added hcode to the VERSION partition, let’s parse it out and let the user know.

  • ipmi: Add BMC firmware version to device tree

    BMC Get device ID command gives BMC firmware version details. Lets add this to device tree. User space tools will use this information to display BMC version details.

Since 5.11:

  • Disable stop states from OPAL

    On ZZ, stop4,5,11 are enabled for PowerVM, even though doing so may cause problems with OPAL due to bugs in hcode.

    For other platforms, this isn’t so much of an issue as we can just control stop states by the MRW. However the rebuild-the-world approach to changing values there is a bit annoying if you just want to rule out a specific stop state from being problematic.

    Provide an nvram option to override what’s disabled in OPAL.

    The OPAL mask is currently ~0xE0000000 (i.e. all but stop 0,1,2)

    You can set an NVRAM override with:

    nvram -p ibm,skiboot --update-config opal-stop-state-disable-mask=0xFFFFFFF
    

    This nvram override will disable all stop states.

  • interrupts: Create an “interrupts” property in the OPAL node

    Deprecate the old “opal-interrupts”, it’s still there, but the new property follows the standard and allow us to specify whether an interrupt is level or edge sensitive.

    Similarly create “interrupt-names” whose content is identical to “opal-interrupts-names”.

  • SBE: Add timer support on POWER9

    SBE on P9 provides one shot programmable timer facility. We can use this to implement OPAL timers and hence limit the reliance on the Linux heartbeat (similar to HW timer facility provided by SLW on P8).

  • Add SBE driver support

    SBE (Self Boot Engine) on P9 has two different jobs: - Boot the chip up to the point the core is functional - Provide various services like timer, scom, stash MPIPL, etc., at runtime

    We will use SBE for various purposes like timer, MPIPL, etc.

  • opal:hmi: Add missing processor recovery reason string.

    With this patch now we see reason string printed for CORE_WOF[43] bit.

    [  477.352234986,7] HMI: [Loc: U78D3.001.WZS004A-P1-C48]: P:8 C:22 T:3: Processor recovery occurred.
    [  477.352240742,7] HMI: Core WOF = 0x0000000000100000 recovered error:
    [  477.352242181,7] HMI: PC - Thread hang recovery
    
  • Add DIMM actual speed to device tree

    Recent HDAT provides DIMM actuall speed. Lets add this to device tree.

  • Fix DIMM size property

    Today we parse vpd blob to get DIMM size information. This is limited to FSP based system. HDAT provides DIMM size value. Lets use that to populate device tree. So that we can get size information on BMC based system as well.

  • PCI: Set slot power limit when supported

    The PCIe slot capability can be implemented in a root or switch downstream port to set the maximum power a card is allowed to draw from the system. This patch adds support for setting the power limit when the platform has defined one.

  • hdata/spira: parse vpd to add part-number and serial-number to xscom@ node

    Expected by FWTS and associates our processor with the part/serial number, which is obviously a good thing for one’s own sanity.

Improved HMI Handling

  • opal/hmi: Add documentation for opal_handle_hmi2 call

  • opal/hmi: Generate hmi event for recovered HDEC parity error.

  • opal/hmi: check thread 0 tfmr to validate latched tfmr errors.

    Due to P9 errata, HDEC parity and TB residue errors are latched for non-zero threads 1-3 even if they are cleared. But these are not latched on thread 0. Hence, use xscom SCOMC/SCOMD to read thread 0 tfmr value and ignore them on non-zero threads if they are not present on thread 0.

  • opal/hmi: Print additional debug information in rendezvous.

  • opal/hmi: Fix handling of TFMR parity/corrupt error.

    While testing TFMR parity/corrupt error it has been observed that HMIs are delivered twice for this error

    • First time HMI is delivered with HMER[4,5]=1 and TFMR[60]=1.

    • Second time HMI is delivered with HMER[4,5]=1 and TFMR[60]=0 with valid TB.

    On second HMI we end up throwing “HMI: TB invalid without core error reported” even though TB is in a valid state.

  • opal/hmi: Stop flooding HMI event for TOD errors.

    Fix the issue where every thread on the chip sends HMI event to host for TOD errors. TOD errors are reported to all the core/threads on the chip. Any one thread can fix the error and send event. Rest of the threads don’t need to send HMI event unnecessarily.

  • opal/hmi: Fix soft lockups during TOD errors

    There are some TOD errors which do not affect working of TOD and TB. They stay in valid state. Hence we don’t need rendez vous for TOD errors that does not affect TB working.

    TOD errors that affects TOD/TB will report a global error on TFMR[44] alongwith bit 51, and they will go in rendez vous path as expected.

    But the TOD errors that does not affect TB register sets only TFMR bit 51. The TFMR bit 51 is cleared when any single thread clears the TOD error. Once cleared, the bit 51 is reflected to all the cores on that chip. Any thread that reads the TFMR register after the error is cleared will see TFMR bit 51 reset. Hence the threads that see TFMR[51]=1, falls through rendez-vous path and threads that see TFMR[51]=0, returns doing nothing. This ends up in a soft lockups in host kernel.

    This patch fixes this issue by not considering TOD interrupt (TFMR[51]) as a core-global error and hence avoiding rendez-vous path completely. Instead threads that see TFMR[51]=1 will now take different path that just do the TOD error recovery.

  • opal/hmi: Do not send HMI event if no errors are found.

    For TOD errors, all the cores in the chip get HMIs. Any one thread from any core can fix the issue and TFMR will have error conditions cleared. Rest of the threads need take any action if TOD errors are already cleared. Hence thread 0 of every core should get a fresh copy of TFMR before going ahead recovery path. Initialize recover = -1, so that if no errors found that thread need not send a HMI event to linux. This helps in stop flooding host with hmi event by every thread even there are no errors found.

  • opal/hmi: Initialize the hmi event with old value of HMER.

    Do this before we check for TFAC errors. Otherwise the event at host console shows no error reported in HMER register.

    Without this patch the console event show HMER with all zeros

    [  216.753417] Severe Hypervisor Maintenance interrupt [Recovered]
    [  216.753498]  Error detail: Timer facility experienced an error
    [  216.753509]  HMER: 0000000000000000
    [  216.753518]  TFMR: 3c12000870e04000
    

    After this patch it shows old HMER values on host console:

    [ 2237.652533] Severe Hypervisor Maintenance interrupt [Recovered]
    [ 2237.652651]  Error detail: Timer facility experienced an error
    [ 2237.652766]  HMER: 0840000000000000
    [ 2237.652837]  TFMR: 3c12000870e04000
    
  • opal/hmi: Rework HMI handling of TFAC errors

    This patch reworks the HMI handling for TFAC errors by introducing 4 rendez-vous points improve the thread synchronization while handling timebase errors that requires all thread to clear dirty data from TB/HDEC register before clearing the errors.

  • opal/hmi: Don’t bother passing HMER to pre-recovery cleanup

    The test for TFAC error is now redundant so we remove it and remove the HMER argument.

  • opal/hmi: Move timer related error handling to a separate function

    Currently no functional change. This is a first step to completely rewriting how these things are handled.

  • opal/hmi: Add a new opal_handle_hmi2 that returns direct info to Linux

    It returns a 64-bit flags mask currently set to provide info about which timer facilities were lost, and whether an event was generated.

  • opal/hmi: Remove races in clearing HMER

    Writing to HMER acts as an “AND”. The current code writes back the value we originally read with the bits we handled cleared. This is racy, if a new bit gets set in HW after the original read, we’ll end up clearing it without handling it.

    Instead, use an all 1’s mask with only the bit handled cleared.

  • opal/hmi: Don’t re-read HMER multiple times

    We want to make sure all reporting and actions are based upon the same snapshot of HMER in case bits get added by HW while we are in OPAL.

libflash and ffspart

Many improvements to the ffspart utility and libflash have come in this release, making ffspart suitable for building bit-identical PNOR images as the existing tooling used by op-build. The plan is to switch op-build to use this infrastructure in the not too distant future.

  • libflash/blocklevel: Make read/write be ECC agnostic for callers

    The blocklevel abstraction allows for regions of the backing store to be marked as ECC protected so that blocklevel can decode/encode the ECC bytes into the buffer automatically without the caller having to be ECC aware.

    Unfortunately this abstraction is far from perfect, this is only useful if reads and writes are performed at the start of the ECC region or in some circumstances at an ECC aligned position - which requires the caller be aware of the ECC regions.

    The problem that has arisen is that the blocklevel abstraction is initialised somewhere but when it is later called the caller is unaware if ECC exists in the region it wants to arbitrarily read and write to. This should not have been a problem since blocklevel knows. Currently misaligned reads will fail ECC checks and misaligned writes will overwrite ECC bytes and the backing store will become corrupted.

    This patch add the smarts to blocklevel_read() and blocklevel_write() to cope with the problem. Note that ECC can always be bypassed by calling blocklevel_raw_() functions.

    All this work means that the gard tool can can safely call blocklevel_read() and blocklevel_write() and as long as the blocklevel knows of the presence of ECC then it will deal with all cases.

    This also commit removes code in the gard tool which compensated for inadequacies no longer present in blocklevel.

  • libflash/blocklevel: Return region start from ecc_protected()

    Currently all ecc_protected() does is say if a region is ECC protected or not. Knowing a region is ECC protected is one thing but there isn’t much that can be done afterwards if this is the only known fact. A lot more can be done if the caller is told where the ECC region begins.

    Knowing where the ECC region start it allows to caller to align its read/and writes. This allows for more flexibility calling read and write without knowing exactly how the backing store is organised.

  • libflash/ecc: Add helpers to align a position within an ecc buffer

    As part of ongoing work to make ECC invisible to higher levels up the stack this function converts a ‘position’ which should be ECC agnostic to the equivalent position within an ECC region starting at a specified location.

  • libflash/ecc: Add functions to deal with unaligned ECC memcpy

  • external/ffspart: Improve error output

  • libffs: Fix bad checks for partition overlap

    Not all TOCs are written at zero

  • libflash/libffs: Allow caller to specifiy header partition

    An FFS TOC is comprised of two parts. A small header which has a magic and very minimmal information about the TOC which will be common to all partitions, things like number of patritions, block sizes and the like. Following this small header are a series of entries. Importantly there is always an entry which encompases the TOC its self, this is usually called the ‘part’ partition.

    Currently libffs always assumes that the ‘part’ partition is at zero. While there is always a TOC and zero there doesn’t actually have to be. PNORs may have multiple TOCs within them, therefore libffs needs to be flexible enough to allow callers to specify TOCs not at zero.

    The ‘part’ partition is otherwise a regular partition which may have flags associated with it. libffs should allow the user to set the flags for the ‘part’ partition.

    This patch achieves both by allowing the caller to specify the ‘part’ partition. The caller can not and libffs will provide a sensible default.

  • libflash/libffs: Refcount ffs entries

    Currently consumers can add an new ffs entry to multiple headers, this is fine but freeing any of the headers will cause the entry to be freed, this causes double free problems.

    Even if only one header is uses, the consumer of the library still has a reference to the entry, which they may well reuse at some other point.

    libffs will now refcount entries and only free when there are no more references.

    This patch also removes the pointless return value of ffs_hdr_free()

  • libflash/libffs: Switch to storing header entries in an array

    Since the libffs no longer needs to sort the entries as they get added it makes little sense to have the complexity of a linked list when an array will suffice.

  • libflash/libffs: Remove backup partition from TOC generation code

    It turns out this code was messy and not all that reliable. Doing it at the library level adds complexity to the library and restrictions to the caller.

    A simpler approach can be achived with the just instantiating multiple ffs_header structures pointing to different parts of the same file.

  • libflash/libffs: Remove the ‘sides’ from the FFS TOC generation code

    It turns out this code was messy and not all that reliable. Doing it at the library level adds complexity to the library and restrictions to the caller.

    A simpler approach can be achived with the just instantiating multiple ffs_header structures pointing to different parts of the same file.

  • libflash/libffs: Always add entries to the end of the TOC

    It turns out that sorted order isn’t the best idea. This removes flexibility from the caller. If the user wants their partitions in sorted order, they should insert them in sorted order.

  • external/ffspart: Remove side, order and backup options

    These options are currently flakey in libflash/libffs so there isn’t much point to being able to use them in ffspart.

    Future reworks planned for libflash/libffs will render these options redundant anyway.

  • libflash/libffs: ffs_close() should use ffs_hdr_free()

  • libflash/libffs: Add setter for a partitions actual size

  • pflash: Use ffs_entry_user_to_string() to standardise flag strings

  • libffs: Standardise ffs partition flags

    It seems we’ve developed a character respresentation for ffs partition flags. Currently only pflash really prints them so it hasn’t been a problem but now ffspart wants to read them in from user input.

    It is important that what libffs reads and what pflash prints remain consistent, we should move the code into libffs to avoid problems.

  • external/ffspart: Allow # comments in input file

p9dsu Platform changes

The p9dsu platform from SuperMicro (also known as ‘Boston’) has received a number of updates, and the patches once carried by SuperMicro are now upstream.

Since 6.0-rc1:

  • p9dsu: timeout for variant detection, default to 2uess

Since 5.11:

  • p9dsu: detect p9dsu variant even when hostboot doesn’t tell us

    The SuperMicro BMC can tell us what riser type we have, which dictates the PCI slot tables. Usually, in an environment that a customer would experience, Hostboot will do the query with an SMC specific patch (not upstream as there’s no platform specific code in hostboot) and skiboot knows what variant it is based on the compatible string.

    However, if you’re using upstream hostboot, you only get the bare ‘p9dsu’ compatible type. We can work around this by asking the BMC ourselves and setting the slot table appropriately. We do this syncronously in platform init so that we don’t start probing PCI before we setup the slot table.

  • p9dsu: add slot power limit.

  • p9dsu: add pci slot table for Boston LC 1U/2U and Boston LA/ESS.

  • p9dsu HACK: fix system-vpd eeprom

  • p9dsu: change esel command from AMI to IBM 0x3a.

ZZ Platform Changes

  • hdata/i2c: Fix up pci hotplug labels

    These labels are used on the devices used to do PCIe slot power control for implementing PCIe hotplug. I’m not sure how they ended up as “eeprom-pgood” and “eeprom-controller” since that doesn’t make any sense.

  • hdata/i2c: Ignore multi-port I2C devices

    Recent FSP firmware builds add support for multi-port I2C devices such as the GPIO expanders used for the presence detect of OpenCAPI devices and the PCIe hotplug controllers used to power cycle PCIe slots on ZZ.

    The OpenCAPI driver inside of skiboot currently uses a platform-specific method to talk to the relevant I2C device rather than relying on HDAT since not all platforms correctly report the I2C devices (hello Zaius). Additionally the nature of multi-port devices require that we a device specific handler so that we generate the correct DT bindings. Currently we don’t and there is no immediate need for this support so just ignore the multi-port devices for now.

  • hdata/i2c: Replace i2c_ prefix with dev_

    The current naming scheme makes it easy to conflate “i2cm_port” and “i2c_port.” The latter is used to describe multi-port I2C devices such as GPIO expanders and multi-channel PCIe hotplug controllers. Rename i2c_port to dev_port to make the two a bit more distinct.

    Also rename i2c_addr to dev_addr for consistency.

  • hdata/i2c: Ignore CFAM I2C master

    Recent FSP firmware builds put in information about the CFAM I2C master in addition the to host I2C masters accessible via XSCOM. Odds are this information should not be there since there’s no handshaking between the FSP/BMC and the host over who controls that I2C master, but it is so we need to deal with it.

    This patch adds filtering to the HDAT parser so it ignores the CFAM I2C master. Without this it will create a bogus i2cm@<addr> which migh cause issues.

  • ZZ: hw/imc: Add support to load imc catalog lid file

    Add support to load the imc catalog from a lid file packaged as part of the system firmware. Lid number allocated is 0x80f00103.lid.

Bugs Fixed

Since 6.0-rc2:

  • core/opal: Fix recursion check in opal_run_pollers()

    An earlier commit introduced a counter variable poller_recursion to limit to the number number of error messages shown when opal_pollers are run recursively. However the check for the counter value was placed in a way that the poller recursion was only detected first 16 times and then allowed afterwards.

    This patch fixes this by moving the check for the counter value inside the conditional branch with some re-factoring so that opal_poller recursion is not erroneously allowed after poll_recursion is detected first 16 times.

  • phb4: Print WOF registers on fence detect

    Without the WOF registers it’s hard to figure out what went wrong first, so print those when we print the FIRs when a fence is detected.

  • p9dsu: detect variant in init only if probe fails to found.

    Currently the slot table init happens twice in both probe and init functions due to the variant detection logic called with in-correct condition check.

Since 6.0-rc1:

  • core/direct-controls: improve p9_stop_thread error handling

    p9_stop_thread should fail the operation if it finds the thread was already quiescd. This implies something else is doing direct controls on the thread (e.g., pdbg) or there is some exceptional condition we don’t know how to deal with. Proceeding here would cause things to trample on each other, for example the hard lockup watchdog trying to send a sreset to the core while it is stopped for debugging with pdbg will end in tears.

    If p9_stop_thread times out waiting for the thread to quiesce, do not hit it with a core_start direct control, because we don’t know what state things are in and doing more things at this point is worse than doing nothing. There is no good recipe described in the workbook to de-assert the core_stop control if it fails to quiesce the thread. After timing out here, the thread may eventually quiesce and get stuck, but that’s simpler to debug than undefied behaviour.

  • core/direct-controls: fix p9_cont_thread for stopped/inactive threads

    Firstly, p9_cont_thread should check that the thread actually was quiesced before it tries to resume it. Anything could happen if we try this from an arbitrary thread state.

    Then when resuming a quiesced thread that is inactive or stopped (in a stop idle state), we must not send a core_start direct control, clear_maint must be used in these cases.

  • hmi: Clear unknown debug trigger

    On some systems, seeing hangs like this when Linux starts:

    [ 170.027252763,5] OCC: All Chip Rdy after 0 ms
    [ 170.062930145,5] INIT: Starting kernel at 0x20011000, fdt at 0x30ae0530 366247 bytes)
    [ 171.238270428,5] OPAL: Switch to little-endian OS
    

    If you look at the in memory skiboot console (or do nvram -p ibm,skiboot –update-config log-level-driver=7) we see the console get spammed with:

    [ 5209.109790675,7] HMI: Received HMI interrupt: HMER = 0x0000400000000000
    [ 5209.109792716,7] HMI: Received HMI interrupt: HMER = 0x0000400000000000
    [ 5209.109794695,7] HMI: Received HMI interrupt: HMER = 0x0000400000000000
    [ 5209.109796689,7] HMI: Received HMI interrupt: HMER = 0x0000400000000000
    

    We’re taking the debug trigger (bit 17) early on, before the hmi_debug_trigger function in the kernel is set up.

    This clears the HMI in Skiboot and reports to the kernel instead of bringing down the machine.

  • core/hmi: assign flags=0 in case nothing set by handle_hmi_exception

    Theoretically we could have returned junk to the OS in this parameter.

  • SLW: Fix mambo boot to use stop states

    After commit 35c66b8ce5a2 (“SLW: Move MAMBO simulator checks to slw_init”), mambo boot no longer calls add_cpu_idle_state_properties() and as such we never enable stop states.

    After adding the call back, we get more testing coverage as well as faster mambo SMT boots.

  • phb4: Hardware init updates

    CFG Write Request Timeout was incorrectly set to informational and not fatal for both non-CAPI and CAPI, so set it to fatal. This was a mistake in the specification. Correcting this fixes a niche bug in escalation (which is necessary on pre-DD2.2) that can cause a checkstop due to a NCU timeout.

    In addition, set the values in the timeout control registers to match. This fixes an extremely rare and unreproducible bug, though the current timings don’t make sense since they’re higher than the NCU timeout (16) which will checkstop the machine anyway.

  • SLW: quieten ‘Configuring self-restore’ for DARN,NCU_SPEC_BAR and HRMOR

Since 5.11:

  • core: Fix iteration condition to skip garded cpu

  • uart: fix uart_opal_flush to take console lock over uart_con_flush This bug meant that OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH didn’t take the appropriate locks. Luckily, since this call is only currently used in the crash path.

  • xive: fix missing unlock in error path

  • OPAL_PCI_SET_POWER_STATE: fix locking in error paths

    Otherwise we could exit OPAL holding locks, potentially leading to all sorts of problems later on.

  • hw/slw: Don’t assert on a unknown chip

    For some reason skiboot populates nodes in /cpus/ for the cores on chips that are deconfigured. As a result Linux includes the threads of those cores in it’s set of possible CPUs in the system and attempts to set the SPR values that should be used when waking a thread from a deep sleep state.

    However, in the case where we have deconfigured chip we don’t create a xscom node for that chip and as a result we don’t have a proc_chip structure for that chip either. In turn, this results in an assertion failure when calling opal_slw_set_reg() since it expects the chip structure to exist. Fix this up and print an error instead.

  • opal/hmi: Generate one event per core for processor recovery.

    Processor recovery is per core error. All threads on that core receive HMI. All threads don’t need to generate HMI event for same error.

    Let thread 0 only generate the event.

  • sensors: Dont add DTS sensors when OCC inband sensors are available

    There are two sets of core temperature sensors today. One is DTS scom based core temperature sensors and the second group is the sensors provided by OCC. DTS is the highest temperature among the different temperature zones in the core while OCC core temperature sensors are the average temperature of the core. DTS sensors are read directly by the host by SCOMing the DTS sensors while OCC sensors are read and updated by OCC to main memory.

    Reading DTS sensors by SCOMing is a heavy and slower operation as compared to reading OCC sensors which is as good as reading memory. So dont add DTS sensors when OCC sensors are available.

  • core/fast-reboot: Increase timeout for dctl sreset to 1sec

    Direct control xscom can take more time to complete. We seem to wait too little on Boston failing fast-reboot for no good reason.

    Increase timeout to 1 sec as a reasonable value for sreset to be delivered and core to start executing instructions.

  • occ: sensors-groups: Add DT properties to mark HWMON sensor groups

    Fix the sensor type to match HWMON sensor types. Add compatible flag to indicate the environmental sensor groups so that operations on these groups can be handled by HWMON linux interface.

  • core: Correctly load initramfs in stb container

    Skiboot does not calculate the actual size and start location of the initramfs if it is wrapped by an STB container (for example if loading an initramfs from the ROOTFS partition).

    Check if the initramfs is in an STB container and determine the size and location correctly in the same manner as the kernel. Since load_initramfs() is called after load_kernel() move the call to trustedboot_exit_boot_services() into load_and_boot_kernel() so it is called after both of these.

  • hdat/i2c.c: quieten “v2 found, parsing as v1”

  • hw/imc: Check for pause_microcode_at_boot() return status

    pause_microcode_at_boot() loops through all the chip’s ucode control block and pause the ucode if it is in the running state. But it does not fail if any of the chip’s ucode is not initialised.

    Add code to return a failure if ucode is not initialized in any of the chip. Since pause_microcode_at_boot() is called just before attaching the IMC device nodes in imc_init(), add code to check for the function return.

Slot location code fixes:

  • npu2: Use ibm, loc-code rather than ibm, slot-label

    The ibm,slot-label property is to name the slot that appears under a PCIe bridge. In the past we (ab)used the slot tables to attach names to GPU devices and their corresponding NVLinks which resulted in npu2.c using slot-label as a location code rather than as a way to name slots.

    Fix this up since it’s confusing.

  • hdata/slots: Apply slot label to the parent slot

    Slot names only really make sense when applied to an actual slot rather than a device. On witherspoon the GPU devices have a name associated with the device rather than the slot for the GPUs. Add a hack that moves the slot label to the parent slot rather than on the device itself.

  • pci-dt-slot: Big ol’ cleanup

    The underlying data that we get from HDAT can only really describe a PCIe system. As such we can simplify the devicetree slot lookup code by only caring about the important cases, namly, root ports and switch downstream ports.

    This also fixes a bug where root port didn’t get a Slot label applied which results in devices under that port not having ibm,loc-code set. This results in the EEH core being unable to report the location of EEHed devices under that port.

opal-prd

  • opal-prd: Insert powernv_flash module

    Explictly load powernv_flash module on BMC based system so that we are sure that flash device is created before starting opal-prd daemon.

    Note that I have replaced pnor_available() check with is_fsp_system(). As we want to load module on BMC system only. Also pnor_init has enough logic to detect flash device. Hence pnor_available() becomes redundant check.

NPU2/NVLINK2

  • npu2/hw-procedures: fence bricks on GPU reset

    The NPU workbook defines a way of fencing a brick and getting the brick out of fence state. We do have an implementation of bringing the brick out of fenced/quiesced state. We do the latter in our procedures, but to support run time reset we need to do the former.

    The fencing ensures that access to memory behind the links will not lead to HMI’s, but instead SUE’s will be populated in cache (in the case of speculation). The expectation is then that prior to and after reset, the operating system components will flush the cache for the region of memory behind the GPU.

    This patch does the following:

    1. Implements a npu2_dev_fence_brick() function to set/clear fence state

    2. Clear FIR bits prior to clearing the fence status

    3. Clear’s the fence status

    4. We take the powerbus out of CQ fence much later now, in credits_check() which is the last hardware procedure called after link training.

  • hw/npu2.c: Remove static configuration of NPU2 register

    The NPU_SM_CONFIG0 register currently needs to be configured in Skiboot to select NVLink mode, however Hostboot should configure other bits in this register.

    For some reason Skiboot was explicitly clearing bit-6 (CONFIG_DISABLE_VG_NOT_SYS). It is unclear why this bit was getting cleared as recent Hostboot versions explicitly set it to the correct value based on the specific system configuration. Therefore Skiboot should not alter it.

    Bit-58 (CONFIG_NVLINK_MODE) selects if NVLink mode should be enabled or not. Hostboot does not configure this bit so Skiboot should continue to configure it.

  • npu2: Improve log output of GPU-to-link mapping

    Debugging issues related to unconnected NVLinks can be a little less irritating if we use the NPU2DEV{DBG,INF}() macros instead of prlog().

    In short, change this:

    NPU2: comparing GPU 'GPU2' and NPU2 'GPU1'
    NPU2: comparing GPU 'GPU3' and NPU2 'GPU1'
    NPU2: comparing GPU 'GPU4' and NPU2 'GPU1'
    NPU2: comparing GPU 'GPU5' and NPU2 'GPU1'
          :
    npu2_dev_bind_pci_dev: No PCI device for NPU2 device 0006:00:01.0 to bind to. If you expect a GPU to be there, this is a problem.
    

    to this:

    NPU6:0:1.0 Comparing GPU 'GPU2' and NPU2 'GPU1'
    NPU6:0:1.0 Comparing GPU 'GPU3' and NPU2 'GPU1'
    NPU6:0:1.0 Comparing GPU 'GPU4' and NPU2 'GPU1'
    NPU6:0:1.0 Comparing GPU 'GPU5' and NPU2 'GPU1'
          :
    NPU6:0:1.0 No PCI device found for slot 'GPU1'
    
  • npu2: Move NPU2_XTS_BDF_MAP_VALID assignment to context init

    A bad GPU or other condition may leave us with a subset of links that never get initialized. If an ATSD is sent to one of those bricks, it will never complete, leaving us waiting forever for a response:

    watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 23s! [acos:2050]
    ...
    Modules linked in: nvidia_uvm(O) nvidia(O)
    CPU: 23 PID: 2050 Comm: acos Tainted: G        W  O    4.14.0 #2
    task: c0000000285cfc00 task.stack: c000001fea860000
    NIP:  c0000000000abdf0 LR: c0000000000acc48 CTR: c0000000000ace60
    REGS: c000001fea863550 TRAP: 0901   Tainted: G        W  O     (4.14.0)
    MSR:  9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28004484  XER: 20040000
    CFAR: c0000000000abdf4 SOFTE: 1
    GPR00: c0000000000acc48 c000001fea8637d0 c0000000011f7c00 c000001fea863820
    GPR04: 0000000002000000 0004100026000000 c0000000012778c8 c00000000127a560
    GPR08: 0000000000000001 0000000000000080 c000201cc7cb7750 ffffffffffffffff
    GPR12: 0000000000008000 c000000003167e80
    NIP [c0000000000abdf0] mmio_invalidate_wait+0x90/0xc0
    LR [c0000000000acc48] mmio_invalidate.isra.11+0x158/0x370
    

    ATSDs are only sent to bricks which have a valid entry in the XTS_BDF table. So to prevent the hang, don’t set NPU2_XTS_BDF_MAP_VALID unless we make it all the way to creating a context for the BDF.

Secure and Trusted Boot

  • hdata/tpmrel: detect tpm not present by looking up the stinfo->status

    Skiboot detects if tpm is present by checking if a secureboot_tpm_info entry exists. However, if a tpm is not present, hostboot also creates a secureboot_tpm_info entry. In this case, hostboot creates an empty entry, but setting the field tpm_status to TPM_NOT_PRESENT.

    This detects if tpm is not present by looking up the stinfo->status.

    This fixes the “TPMREL: TPM node not found for chip_id=0 (HB bug)” issue, reproduced when skiboot is running on a system that has no tpm.

PCI

  • phb4: Restore bus numbers after CRS

    Currently we restore PCIe bus numbers right after the link is up. Unfortunately as this point we haven’t done CRS so config space may not be accessible.

    This moves the bus number restore till after CRS has happened.

  • romulus: Add a barebones slot table

  • phb4: Quieten and improve “Timeout waiting for electrical link”

    This happens normally if a slot doesn’t have a working HW presence detect and relies instead of inband presence detect.

    The message we display is scary and not very useful unless ou are debugging, so quiten it up and change it to something more meaningful.

  • pcie-slot: Don’t fail powering on an already on switch

    If the power state is already the required value, return OPAL_SUCCESS rather than OPAL_PARAMETER to avoid spurrious errors during boot.

CAPI/OpenCAPI

  • capi: Keep the current mmio windows in the mbt cache table.

    When the phb is used as a CAPI interface, the current mmio windows list is cleaned before adding the capi and the prefetchable memory (M64) windows, which implies that the non-prefetchable BAR is no more configured. This patch allows to set only the mbt bar to pass capi mmio window and to keep, as defined, the other mmio values (M32 and M64).

  • npu2-opencapi: Fix ‘link internal error’ FIR, take 2

    When setting up an opencapi link, we set the transport muxes first, then set the PHY training config register, which includes disabling nvlink mode for the bricks. That’s the order of the init sequence, as found in the NPU workbook.

    In reality, doing so works, but it raises 2 FIR bits in the PowerBus OLL FIR Register for the 2 links when we configure the transport muxes. Presumably because nvlink is not disabled yet and we are configuring the transport muxes for opencapi.

    bit 60:

    link0 internal error

    bit 61:

    link1 internal error

    Overall the current setup ends up being correct and everything works, but we raise 2 FIR bits.

    So tweak the order of operations to disable nvlink before configuring the transport muxes. Incidentally, this is what the scripts from the opencapi enablement team were doing all along.

  • npu2-opencapi: Fix ‘link internal error’ FIR, take 1

    When we setup a link, we always enable ODL0 and ODL1 at the same time in the PHY training config register, even though we are setting up only one OTL/ODL, so it raises a “link internal error” FIR bit in the PowerBus OLL FIR Register for the second link. The error is harmless, as we’ll eventually setup the second link, but there’s no reason to raise that FIR bit.

    The fix is simply to only enable the ODL we are using for the link.

  • phb4: Do not set the PBCQ Tunnel BAR register when enabling capi mode.

    The cxl driver will set the capi value, like other drivers already do.

  • phb4: set TVT1 for tunneled operations in capi mode

    The ASN indication is used for tunneled operations (as_notify and atomics). Tunneled operation messages can be sent in PCI mode as well as CAPI mode.

    The address field of as_notify messages is hijacked to encode the LPID/PID/TID of the target thread, so those messages should not go through address translation. Therefore bit 59 is part of the ASN indication.

    This patch sets TVT#1 in bypass mode when capi mode is enabled, to prevent as_notify messages from being dropped.

Debugging/Testing improvements

Since 6.0-rc1:

  • mambo: Enable XER CA32 and OV32 bits on P9

    POWER9 adds 32 bit carry and overflow bits to the XER, but we need to set the relevant CTRL1 bit to enable them.

  • Makefile: Fix building natively on ppc64le

    When on ppc64le and CROSS is not set by the environment, make assumes ppc64 and sets a default CROSS. Check for ppc64le as well, so that ‘make’ works out of the box on ppc64le.

  • Experimental support for building with Clang

  • Improvements to testing and Travis CI

Since 5.11:

  • core/stack: backtrace unwind basic OPAL call details

    Put OPAL callers’ r1 into the stack back chain, and then use that to unwind back to the OPAL entry frame (as opposed to boot entry, which has a 0 back chain).

    From there, dump the OPAL call token and the caller’s r1. A backtrace looks like this:

    CPU 0000 Backtrace:
     S: 0000000031c03ba0 R: 000000003001a548   ._abort+0x4c
     S: 0000000031c03c20 R: 000000003001baac   .opal_run_pollers+0x3c
     S: 0000000031c03ca0 R: 000000003001bcbc   .opal_poll_events+0xc4
     S: 0000000031c03d20 R: 00000000300051dc   opal_entry+0x12c
     --- OPAL call entry token: 0xa caller R1: 0xc0000000006d3b90 ---
    

    This is pretty basic for the moment, but it does give you the bottom of the Linux stack. It will allow some interesting improvements in future.

    First, with the eframe, all the call’s parameters can be printed out as well. The ___backtrace / ___print_backtrace API needs to be reworked in order to support this, but it’s otherwise very simple (see opal_trace_entry()).

    Second, it will allow Linux’s stack to be passed back to Linux via a debugging opal call. This will allow Linux’s BUG() or xmon to also print the Linux back trace in case of a NMI or MCE or watchdog lockup that hits in OPAL.

  • asm/head: implement quiescing without stack or clobbering regs

    Quiescing currently is implmeented in C in opal_entry before the opal call handler is called. This works well enough for simple cases like fast reset when one CPU wants all others out of the way.

    Linux would like to use it to prevent an sreset IPI from interrupting firmware, which could lead to deadlocks when crash dumping or entering the debugger. Linux interrupts do not recover well when returning back to general OPAL code, due to r13 not being restored. OPAL also can’t be re-entered, which may happen e.g., from the debugger.

    So move the quiesce hold/reject to entry code, beore the stack or r1 or r13 registers are switched. OPAL can be interrupted and returned to or re-entered during this period.

    This does not completely solve all such problems. OPAL will be interrupted with sreset if the quiesce times out, and it can be interrupted by MCEs as well. These still have the issues above.

  • core/opal: Allow poller re-entry if OPAL was re-entered

    If an NMI interrupts the middle of running pollers and the OS invokes pollers again (e.g., for console output), the poller re-entrancy check will prevent it from running and spam the console.

    That check was designed to catch a poller calling opal_run_pollers, OPAL re-entrancy is something different and is detected elsewhere. Avoid the poller recursion check if OPAL has been re-entered. This is a best-effort attempt to cope with errors.

  • core/opal: Emergency stack for re-entry

    This detects OPAL being re-entered by the OS, and switches to an emergency stack if it was. This protects the firmware’s main stack from re-entrancy and allows the OS to use NMI facilities for crash / debug functionality.

    Further nested re-entry will destroy the previous emergency stack and prevent returning, but those should be rare cases.

    This stack is sized at 16kB, which doubles the size of CPU stacks, so as not to introduce a regression in primary stack size. The 16kB stack originally had a 4kB machine check stack at the top, which was removed by 80eee1946 (“opal: Remove machine check interrupt patching in OPAL.”). So it is possible the size could be tightened again, but that would require further analysis.

  • hdat_to_dt: hash_prop the same on all platforms Fixes this unit test on ppc64le hosts.

  • mambo: Add persistent memory disk support

    This adds support to for mapping disks images using persistent memory. Disks can be added by setting this ENV variable:

    PMEM_DISK=”/mydisks/disk1.img,/mydisks/disk2.img”

    These will show up in Linux as /dev/pmem0 and /dev/pmem1.

    This uses a new feature in mambo “mysim memory mmap ..” which is only available since mambo commit 0131f0fc08 (from 24/4/2018).

    This also needs the of_pmem.c driver in Linux which is only available since v4.17. It works with powernv_defconfig + CONFIG_OF_PMEM.

  • external/mambo: Add di command to decode instructions

    By default you get 16 instructions but you can specify the number you want. i.e.

    systemsim % di 0x100 4
    0x0000000000000100: Enc:0xA64BB17D : mtspr   HSPRG1,r13
    0x0000000000000104: Enc:0xA64AB07D : mfspr   r13,HSPRG0
    0x0000000000000108: Enc:0xF0092DF9 : std     r9,0x9F0(r13)
    0x000000000000010C: Enc:0xA6E2207D : mfspr   r9,PPR
    

    Using di since it’s what xmon uses.

  • mambo/mambo_utils.tcl: Inject an MCE at a specified address

    Currently we don’t support injecting an MCE on a specific address. This is useful for testing functionality like memcpy_mcsafe() (see https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/893339/)

    The core of the functionality is a routine called inject_mce_ue_on_addr, which takes an addr argument and injects an MCE (load/store with UE) when the specified address is accessed by code. This functionality can easily be enhanced to cover instruction UE’s as well.

    A sample use case to create an MCE on stack access would be

    set addr [mysim display gpr 1]
    inject_mce_ue_on_addr $addr
    

    This would cause an mce on any r1 or r1 based access

  • external/mambo: improve helper for machine checks

    Improve workarounds for stop injection, because mambo often will trigger on 0x104/204 when injecting sreset/mces.

    This also adds a workaround to skip injecting on reservations to avoid infinite loops when doing inject_mce_step.

  • travis: Enable ppc64le builds

    At least on the IBM Travis Enterprise instance, we can now do ppc64le builds!

    We can only build a subset of our matrix due to availability of ppc64le distros. The Dockerfiles need some tweaking to only attempt to install (x86_64 only) Mambo binaries, as well as the build scripts.

  • external: Add “lpc” tool

    This is a little front-end to the lpc debugfs files to access the LPC bus from userspace on the host.

  • core/test/run-trace: fix on ppc64el