Re: pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x1038 (issued 65284 msec ago)

[Dave Young]

On 04/28/18 at 08:56am, Dave Young wrote:
> On 04/27/18 at 04:12pm, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc Eric, Vivek, kexec list]
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 03:34:30PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> > > On 4/27/2018 3:22 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > > Sinan mooted the idea of using a "no-wait" path of sending the "don't
> > > > generate hotplug interrupts" command.  I think we should work on this
> > > > idea a little more.  If we're shutting down the whole system, I can't
> > > > believe there's much value in *anything* we do in the pciehp_remove()
> > > > path.
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe we should just get rid of pciehp_remove() (and probably
> > > > pcie_port_remove_service() and the other service driver remove methods)
> > > > completely.  That dates from when the service drivers could be modules that

Hmm, if it is the remove() method then kexec does not use it.  kexec use
the shutdown() method instead.  I missed this details when I replied.

> > > > could be potentially unloaded, but unloading them hasn't been possible for
> > > > years.
> > > 
> > > Shutdown path is also used for kexec. Leaving hotplug interrupts
> > > pending is dangerous for the newly loaded kernel as it leaves
> > > spurious interrupts during the new kernel boot.
> > > 
> > > I think we should always disable the hotplug interrupt on shutdown.
> > > We might think of not waiting for command-completion as a
> > > middle-ground or go to polling path instead of interrupts all the
> > > time.
> > 
> > Ah, I forgot about the kexec path.  The kexec path is used for
> > crashdump, too, so ideally the newly-loaded kernel would defend itself
> > when possible so it doesn't depend on the original kernel doing things
> > correctly.
> 
> It is true for kdump.  But kexec needs device shutdown.
> 
> > 
> > Seems like this question of whether to do things in the original
> > kernel or the kexec-ed kernel comes up periodically, but I can never
> > remember a definitive answer.  My initial reaction is that it'd be
> > nice if we didn't have to do *any* shutdown in the original kernel,
> > but I'm sure there are reasons that's not practical.
> 
> Devices sometimes assume it is in a good state initialized in firmware boot
> phase, so we need a shutdown in 1st kernel so that kexec kernel can boot
> correctly for those devices.  For kdump since kernel already panicked
> and it is not reliable so we do as less as we can in the 1st kernel
> crash path, but there are some special handling for kdump in various drivers
> to reset the devices in 2nd kernel, eg. when it see "reset_devices" kernel parameter.
> 
> > 
> > I copied Eric (kexec maintainer) and Vivek (contact listed in
> > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt) in case they have suggestions or would
> > consider some sort of Documentation/ update.
> > 
> > Bjorn
> > 
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> Thanks
> Dave
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