nvme interrupt counters got reset after suspend/resume

From: David Wang
Date: Wed Mar 19 2025 - 11:47:31 EST


Hi,

I noticed that on my system, the counters from /proc/interrupts
for nvme got reset after I suspend and then resume the system.
For example, before `systemctl suspend`:
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
...
38: 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 0-edge nvme0q0
39: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:22:00.0 0-edge enp34s0
40: 78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 1-edge nvme0q1
41: 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 2-edge nvme0q2
42: 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 3-edge nvme0q3
43: 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 4-edge nvme0q4
44: 0 0 0 0 87 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 5-edge nvme0q5
45: 0 0 0 0 0 112 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 6-edge nvme0q6
46: 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 7-edge nvme0q7
47: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 8-edge nvme0q8

And right after resume the system, values are reset to 0s:
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
...
38: 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 0-edge nvme0q0
39: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:22:00.0 0-edge enp34s0
40: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 1-edge nvme0q1
41: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 2-edge nvme0q2
42: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 3-edge nvme0q3
43: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 4-edge nvme0q4
44: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 5-edge nvme0q5
45: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 6-edge nvme0q6
46: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 7-edge nvme0q7
47: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSIX-0000:25:00.0 8-edge nvme0q8

This does not happend to counters for other interrupts on my system.
Not sure whether this is designed explicitly this way, or happended to be this way to make suspend/resume work,
or there is some bug behind this.
Just bring this up for discussion since I failed to find any discussion about it.

Thanks
David.