Re: [PATCH v9] PCI/DPC: Ignore Surprise Down error on hot removal

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024, Smita Koralahalli wrote:

> According to PCIe r6.0 sec 6.7.6 [1], async removal with DPC may result in
> surprise down error. This error is expected and is just a side-effect of
> async remove.
> 
> Ignore surprise down error generated as a side-effect of async remove.
> Typically, this error is benign as the pciehp handler invoked by PDC
> or/and DLLSC alongside DPC, de-enumerates and brings down the device
> appropriately. But the error messages might confuse users. Get rid of
> these irritating log messages with a 1s delay while pciehp waits for
> dpc recovery.
> 
> The implementation is as follows: On an async remove a DPC is triggered
> along with a Presence Detect State change and/or DLL State Change.
> Determine it's an async remove by checking for DPC Trigger Status in DPC
> Status Register and Surprise Down Error Status in AER Uncorrected Error
> Status to be non-zero. If true, treat the DPC event as a side-effect of
> async remove, clear the error status registers and continue with hot-plug
> tear down routines. If not, follow the existing routine to handle AER and
> DPC errors.
> 
> Please note that, masking Surprise Down Errors was explored as an
> alternative approach, but left due to the odd behavior that masking only
> avoids the interrupt, but still records an error per PCIe r6.0.1 Section
> 6.2.3.2.2. That stale error is going to be reported the next time some
> error other than Surprise Down is handled.
> 
> Dmesg before:
> 
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4: DPC: containment event, status:0x1f01 source:0x0000
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4: DPC: unmasked uncorrectable error detected
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Receiver ID)
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4:   device [1022:14ab] error status/mask=00000020/04004000
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4:    [ 5] SDES (First)
>   nvme nvme2: frozen state error detected, reset controller
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4: DPC: Data Link Layer Link Active not set in 1000 msec
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4: AER: subordinate device reset failed
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4: AER: device recovery failed
>   pcieport 0000:00:01.4: pciehp: Slot(16): Link Down
>   nvme2n1: detected capacity change from 1953525168 to 0
>   pci 0000:04:00.0: Removing from iommu group 49
> 
> Dmesg after:
> 
>  pcieport 0000:00:01.4: pciehp: Slot(16): Link Down
>  nvme1n1: detected capacity change from 1953525168 to 0
>  pci 0000:04:00.0: Removing from iommu group 37
> 
> [1] PCI Express Base Specification Revision 6.0, Dec 16 2021.
>     https://members.pcisig.com/wg/PCI-SIG/document/16609
> 
> Signed-off-by: Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> +static void pci_clear_surpdn_errors(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> +	if (pdev->dpc_rp_extensions)
> +		pci_write_config_dword(pdev, pdev->dpc_cap +
> +				       PCI_EXP_DPC_RP_PIO_STATUS, ~0);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * In practice, Surprise Down errors have been observed to also set
> +	 * error bits in the Status Register as well as the Fatal Error
> +	 * Detected bit in the Device Status Register.
> +	 */
> +	pci_write_config_word(pdev, PCI_STATUS, 0xffff);

Nit: one of these is using ~0 and the other 0xffff which is a bit 
inconsistent.

> +static bool dpc_is_surprise_removal(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> +	u16 status;
> +
> +	if (!pdev->is_hotplug_bridge)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	if (pci_read_config_word(pdev, pdev->aer_cap + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_STATUS,
> +				 &status))
> +		return false;

Since you need a line split, I'd have used:
	ret = pci_read_config_word(...
				   ...);
	if (ret != PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL)
		return false;

Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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