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authorLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>2025-08-13 07:11:01 +0200
committerBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>2025-08-13 13:20:26 -0500
commitd0a2dee7d4585a7ebab45bf63eebeb8b6944e88f (patch)
tree715e6f28bdd5684b220b648c8ea912fbd1c89b96
parent8f5ae30d69d7543eee0d70083daf4de8fe15d585 (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.c17
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