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| author | Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> | 2025-08-13 07:11:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> | 2025-08-13 13:20:26 -0500 |
| commit | d0a2dee7d4585a7ebab45bf63eebeb8b6944e88f (patch) | |
| tree | 715e6f28bdd5684b220b648c8ea912fbd1c89b96 | |
| parent | 8f5ae30d69d7543eee0d70083daf4de8fe15d585 (diff) | |
PCI/AER: Allow drivers to opt in to Bus Reset on Non-Fatal Errors
When Advanced Error Reporting was introduced in September 2006 by commit
6c2b374d7485 ("PCI-Express AER implemetation: AER core and aerdriver"), it
sought to adhere to the recovery flow and callbacks specified in
Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst.
That document had been added in January 2006, when Enhanced Error Handling
(EEH) was introduced for PowerPC with commit 065c6359071c ("[PATCH] PCI
Error Recovery: documentation").
However the AER driver deviates from the document in that it never
performs a Secondary Bus Reset on Non-Fatal Errors, but always on Fatal
Errors. By contrast, EEH allows drivers to opt in or out of a Bus Reset
regardless of error severity, by returning PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET or
PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER from their ->error_detected() callback. If all
drivers agree that they can recover without a Bus Reset, EEH skips it.
Should one of them request a Bus Reset, it overrides all other drivers.
This inconsistency between EEH and AER seems problematic because drivers
need to be aware of and cope with it.
The file Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.rst hints at a rationale for
always performing a Bus Reset on Fatal Errors: "Fatal errors [...] cause
the link to be unreliable. [...] This [reset_link] callback is used to
reset the PCIe physical link when a fatal error happens. If an error
message indicates a fatal error, [...] performing link reset at upstream
is necessary."
There's no such rationale provided for never performing a Bus Reset on
Non-Fatal Errors.
The "xe" driver has a need to attempt a reset of local units on graphics
cards upon a Non-Fatal Error. If that is insufficient for recovery, the
driver wants to opt in to a Bus Reset.
Accommodate such use cases and align AER more closely with EEH by
performing a Bus Reset in pcie_do_recovery() if drivers request it and the
faulting device's channel_state is pci_channel_io_normal. The AER driver
sets this channel_state for Non-Fatal Errors. For Fatal Errors, it uses
pci_channel_io_frozen.
This limits the deviation from Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst
and EEH to the unconditional Bus Reset on Fatal Errors.
pcie_do_recovery() is also invoked by the Downstream Port Containment and
Error Disconnect Recover drivers. They both set the channel_state to
pci_channel_io_frozen, hence pcie_do_recovery() continues to always invoke
the ->reset_subordinates() callback in their case. That is necessary
because the callback brings the link back up at the containing Downstream
Port.
There are two behavioral changes resulting from this commit:
First, if channel_state is pci_channel_io_normal and one of the affected
drivers returns PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET from its ->error_detected()
callback, a Bus Reset will now be performed. There are drivers doing this
and although it would be possible to avoid a behavioral change by letting
them return PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER instead, the impression I got from
examination of all drivers is that they actually expect or want a Bus
Reset (cxl_error_detected() is a case in point). In any case, if they can
cope with a Bus Reset on Fatal Errors, they shouldn't have issues with a
Bus Reset on Non-Fatal Errors.
Second, if channel_state is pci_channel_io_frozen and all affected drivers
return PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER from ->error_detected(), their
->mmio_enabled() callback is now invoked prior to performing a Bus Reset,
instead of afterwards. This actually makes sense: For example,
drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c dumps debug registers in its
->mmio_enabled() callback. Doing so after reset right now captures the
post-reset state instead of the faulting state, which is useless.
There is only one other driver which implements ->mmio_enabled() and
returns PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER from ->error_detected() for
channel_state pci_channel_io_frozen, drivers/scsi/ipr.c (IBM Power RAID).
It appears to only be used on EEH platforms. So the second behavioral
change is limited to these two drivers.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/28fd805043bb57af390168d05abb30898cf4fc58.1755008151.git.lukas@wunner.de
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/pci/pcie/err.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/err.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/err.c index de6381c690f5..e795e5ae6b03 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/err.c +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/err.c @@ -217,15 +217,10 @@ pci_ers_result_t pcie_do_recovery(struct pci_dev *dev, pci_walk_bridge(bridge, pci_pm_runtime_get_sync, NULL); pci_dbg(bridge, "broadcast error_detected message\n"); - if (state == pci_channel_io_frozen) { + if (state == pci_channel_io_frozen) pci_walk_bridge(bridge, report_frozen_detected, &status); - if (reset_subordinates(bridge) != PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED) { - pci_warn(bridge, "subordinate device reset failed\n"); - goto failed; - } - } else { + else pci_walk_bridge(bridge, report_normal_detected, &status); - } if (status == PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER) { status = PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED; @@ -233,6 +228,14 @@ pci_ers_result_t pcie_do_recovery(struct pci_dev *dev, pci_walk_bridge(bridge, report_mmio_enabled, &status); } + if (status == PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET || + state == pci_channel_io_frozen) { + if (reset_subordinates(bridge) != PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED) { + pci_warn(bridge, "subordinate device reset failed\n"); + goto failed; + } + } + if (status == PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET) { /* * TODO: Should call platform-specific |
