[PATCH RFC 0/3] PCI: pciehp: Report surprise removal during safe removal

[Abhin Parekadan Jose]

Bjorn asked for this to be pulled out of the dormant virtio thread and
posted separately as a purely PCI series [1]. This is that repost. It
carries one patch from Michael's RFC v5 as a dependency and drops the
virtio side entirely.

The problem, as identified by Lukas [2]: if a safe removal is already in
progress when the device is surprise removed, pciehp cannot report the
disconnect.  The removal blocks waiting on a device interrupt or status
read, and the IRQ thread is single-threaded and is itself executing that
removal, so it never runs again to report the device gone. The removal
hangs indefinitely.

Lukas noted that pciehp_isr() does run while the IRQ thread is blocked,
but argued this was not viable either, because pciehp_ist() must ignore
link and presence changes caused by SBR or DPC, and telling those apart
takes seconds which cannot be spent in hardirq.

Patch 2 sidesteps that by not doing the work in hardirq. pciehp_isr()
only checks PDS, and defers everything else to a work item running in
process context, where it is free to sleep and to repeat the spurious
link change test.

Patches:

  1/3 Michael's "PCI: Report surprise removal event" from RFC v5,
      unchanged apart from the fixing commit subject. Needed for
      disconnect_work_enable and the disconnect_work.

  2/3 The pciehp change. Adds disconnect_work to struct controller,
      scheduled from pciehp_isr() on PDC or DLLSC when
      !pciehp_card_present().  pciehp_disconnect_work() then runs in
      process context, where it re-tests for spurious link changes and
      confirms the card is still absent before scheduling the driver's
      disconnect work.

  3/3 A POC driver for the QEMU edu device that blocks in remove()
      waiting for an interrupt, standing in for del_gendisk() stuck in
      blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait().  Not for merge -- included so the
      hang can be reproduced.

Testing

Reproducing this needs QEMU changes, since neither device_del nor the
attention button produces a true surprise removal.  A branch with both
is here [3]:

  - a delayed-IRQ register on the edu device (BAR0 0x30, write N ms)
  - a pcie_surprise_del monitor command that drops the device and
    generates PDC=1, DLLSC=1, PDS=0

Test 1 (Hang in remove() on the user thread, then suprise remove):

  ./qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,gic-version=3   -cpu cortex-a57 \
    -m 512 -smp 2   -kernel Image  -initrd initramfs.cpio.gz  \
    -device pcie-root-port,id=rp1,chassis=1,slot=1 \
    -device edu,bus=rp1,id=edu0 -append "console=ttyAMA0 rdinit=/init" \
    -nographic  -monitor unix:/tmp/qemu-mon.sock,server,nowait

  guest# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/remove

  host$  echo "pcie_surprise_del edu0" | socat - unix-connect:/tmp/qemu-mon.sock

  This is the test that MST had solved.

Test 2 (Hang in remove() on the IRQ thread, then suprise remove):

  ./qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,gic-version=3   -cpu cortex-a57 \
    -m 512 -smp 2   -kernel Image  -initrd initramfs.cpio.gz  \
    -device pcie-root-port,id=rp1,chassis=1,slot=1 \
    -device edu,bus=rp1,id=edu0 -append "console=ttyAMA0 rdinit=/init" \
    -nographic  -monitor unix:/tmp/qemu-mon.sock,server,nowait

  guest# echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/slots/1/power

  host$  echo "pcie_surprise_del edu0" | socat - unix-connect:/tmp/qemu-mon.sock

  This is the test I am trying to solve.

Without patch 2 the safe removal never returns. With it, pciehp_isr()
schedules ctrl->disconnect_work, which walks the bus and schedules
pdev->disconnect_work; the wait in the POC driver completes and
remove() proceeds.

Open questions

  - Is this a viable approach?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260826194815.GA1552818@bhelgaas/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/aHlZE18kPuHuDtTT@xxxxxxxxx/
[3] https://gitlab.com/abhinkop/qemu/-/commits/suprise-removal

Assisted-by: LLM

Abhin Parekadan Jose (2):
  PCI: pciehp: Report surprise removal from pciehp_isr()
  misc: Add edu_srpoc surprise removal POC driver

Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
  PCI: Report surprise removal event

 drivers/misc/Makefile            |   1 +
 drivers/misc/edu_srpoc.c         | 169 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.h     |   1 +
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c |  56 ++++++++--
 drivers/pci/pci.h                |  12 +++
 include/linux/pci.h              |  45 ++++++++
 6 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/misc/edu_srpoc.c

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