Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] PCI: hv: Add vPCI device reset support

From: Wei Liu

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 13:41:36 EST


On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 04:10:33PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> From: wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2026 4:09 PM
> >
> > Hyper-V vPCI protocol version 1.5 adds a RESET_DEVICE request for projected
> > PCI functions. Negotiate the new protocol version and issue the request
> > through the vPCI VMBus channel from the PCI controller reset callback.
> >
> > Use the existing VMBus response path. Return -ENOTTY when the host reports
> > STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED so PCI core may try another reset method.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst | 2 +-
> > drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst
> > index b65b2126ede3..6bfee7225c14 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst
> > @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ exchange messages with the vPCI VSP for the purpose of setting
> > up and configuring the vPCI device in Linux. Once the device
> > is fully configured in Linux as a PCI device, the VMBus
> > channel is used only if Linux changes the vCPU to be interrupted
> > -in the guest, or if the vPCI device is removed from
> > +in the guest, or if the vPCI device is reset or removed from
> > the VM while the VM is running. The ongoing operation of the
> > device happens directly between the Linux device driver for
> > the device and the hardware, with VMBus and the VMBus channel
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
> > index cfc8fa403dad..d3c0fd5e1d8e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
> > @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ enum pci_protocol_version_t {
> > PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_2 = PCI_MAKE_VERSION(1, 2), /* RS1 */
> > PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_3 = PCI_MAKE_VERSION(1, 3), /* Vibranium */
> > PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_4 = PCI_MAKE_VERSION(1, 4), /* WS2022 */
> > + PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_5 = PCI_MAKE_VERSION(1, 5), /* GE, device reset */
>
> I wish there were a better way to identify the Hyper-V version than internal
> code names that mean nothing to the Linux community. "GE" refers to
> Germanium, which would be the Build 26100 series, right?
>

Yes, you're right about Germanium. I see the numbers also match, though
I don't have a clear idea that the numbering will stay the same.

> > };
> >
> > #define CPU_AFFINITY_ALL -1ULL
> > @@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ enum pci_protocol_version_t {
> > * first.
> > */
> > static enum pci_protocol_version_t pci_protocol_versions[] = {
> > + PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_5,
> > PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_4,
> > PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_3,
> > PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_2,
> > @@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ static enum pci_protocol_version_t pci_protocol_versions[] = {
> > #define MAX_SUPPORTED_MSI_MESSAGES 0x400
> >
> > #define STATUS_REVISION_MISMATCH 0xC0000059
> > +#define STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED 0xC00000BB
> >
> > /* space for 32bit serial number as string */
> > #define SLOT_NAME_SIZE 11
> > @@ -136,6 +139,7 @@ enum pci_message_type {
> > PCI_BUS_RELATIONS2 = PCI_MESSAGE_BASE + 0x19,
> > PCI_RESOURCES_ASSIGNED3 = PCI_MESSAGE_BASE + 0x1A,
> > PCI_CREATE_INTERRUPT_MESSAGE3 = PCI_MESSAGE_BASE + 0x1B,
> > + PCI_RESET_DEVICE = PCI_MESSAGE_BASE + 0x1C,
> > PCI_MESSAGE_MAXIMUM
> > };
> >
> > @@ -1397,10 +1401,66 @@ static int hv_pcifront_write_config(struct pci_bus *bus,
> > unsigned int devfn,
> > return PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL;
> > }
> >
> > +static int hv_pcifront_reset(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool probe)
> > +{
> > + struct hv_pcibus_device *hbus =
> > + container_of(pdev->bus->sysdata, struct hv_pcibus_device, sysdata);
> > + struct pci_child_message reset = {};
> > + struct hv_pci_compl comp_pkt;
> > + struct pci_packet pkt = {
> > + .completion_func = hv_pci_generic_compl,
> > + .compl_ctxt = &comp_pkt,
> > + };
> > + enum hv_pcibus_state state;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + /* Device reset was added in vPCI protocol version 1.5. */
> > + if (hbus->protocol_version < PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_5)
> > + return -ENOTTY;
> > +
> > + /* Hyper-V exposes projected functions directly on the root bus. */
> > + if (!pci_is_root_bus(pdev->bus))
> > + return -ENOTTY;
> > +
> > + if (probe)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > + /* Do not take state_lock: eject holds it while removing/locking pdev. */
> > + state = READ_ONCE(hbus->state);
> > + if (state != hv_pcibus_probed && state != hv_pcibus_installed)
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > +
> > + init_completion(&comp_pkt.host_event);
> > + reset.message_type.type = PCI_RESET_DEVICE;
> > + reset.wslot.slot = devfn_to_wslot(pdev->devfn);
> > +
> > + ret = vmbus_sendpacket(hbus->hdev->channel, &reset, sizeof(reset),
> > + (unsigned long)&pkt, VM_PKT_DATA_INBAND,
> > + VMBUS_DATA_PACKET_FLAG_COMPLETION_REQUESTED);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return ret;
> > +
> > + ret = wait_for_response(hbus->hdev, &comp_pkt.host_event);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return ret;
> > +
> > + if (comp_pkt.completion_status == STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED)
> > + return -ENOTTY;
>
> I tried this patch series in a linux-next20260726 build, and running on a D16lds v6
> VM in Azure. The host hypervisor version is 10.0.26100.1652-1-0, and the VM
> has a paravisor with HvLite.
>
> This VM has an NVMe OS disk, two NVMe temp disks, and a MANA network controller.
> Absent this patch set, the temp disks and MANA report the "reset_method" as "flr",
> while the NVMe OS disk reports no reset methods. With this patch set, "controller"
> is added as a reset method for all. The NVMe disks and MANA network controller
> are probed with PCI protocol 1.5. That's all good and as expected (though I'm not
> sure why the NVMe OS disk doesn't support flr).
>
> I then did "echo 1 >reset" for the NVMe OS disk. This returns a -ENOTTY error
> from the above line of code. So the host hypervisor (or paravisor?) is saying that
> the new PCI_RESET_DEVICE message isn't supported. Presumably this is new
> functionality that hasn’t been rolled out to where I'm running this Azure VM.
> That's fine too.
>

That's right. It is not yet rolled out.

> But interestingly, the NVMe OS disk did a Linux-side reset anyway. That's
> because of this stack trace from the "echo 1 >reset" command:
>
> [ 99.642483] nvme_try_sched_reset+0x25/0x60 [nvme_core]
> [ 99.642495] nvme_reset_done+0x1c/0x40 [nvme]
> [ 99.642499] pci_dev_restore+0x35/0x70
> [ 99.642503] pci_reset_function+0x100/0x140
> [ 99.642506] reset_store+0x5a/0xa0
> [ 99.642508] dev_attr_store+0x16/0x30
> [ 99.642512] sysfs_kf_write+0x71/0x80
> [ 99.642516] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x140/0x1d0
> [ 99.642518] vfs_write+0x313/0x420
> [ 99.642522] ksys_write+0x68/0xe0
> [ 99.642525] __x64_sys_write+0x18/0x20
> [ 99.642527] x64_sys_call+0x1700/0x21c0
> [ 99.642530] do_syscall_64+0x8d/0x440
> [ 99.642532] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
>
> Even though __pci_reset_function_locked() failed, the subsequent
> code in pci_reset_function() calls nvme_try_sched_reset(), which puts
> nvme_reset_work() on a workqueue. nvme_reset_work() tears
> things down on the Linux side and rebuilds, and the message
>
> nvme nvme0: 16/0/0 default/read/poll queues
>
> is output.
>
> It's not immediately clear to me how to resolve this issue, so
> I'm just pointing it out. :-(
>

Is resetting the OS disk a real use case?

I'm not sure what magic is happening behind this.

Wei

> Michael
>
> > +
> > + if (comp_pkt.completion_status) {
> > + pci_err(pdev, "Hyper-V device reset failed: %#x\n",
> > + comp_pkt.completion_status);
> > + return -EIO;
> > + }
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > /* PCIe operations */
> > static struct pci_ops hv_pcifront_ops = {
> > .read = hv_pcifront_read_config,
> > .write = hv_pcifront_write_config,
> > + .reset = hv_pcifront_reset,
> > };
> >
> > /*
> > @@ -1996,6 +2056,7 @@ static void hv_compose_msi_msg(struct irq_data *data,
> > struct msi_msg *msg)
> > break;
> >
> > case PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_4:
> > + case PCI_PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_5:
> > size = hv_compose_msi_req_v3(&ctxt.int_pkts.v3,
> > cpu,
> > hpdev->desc.win_slot.slot,
> > --
> > 2.53.0
> >
>