Re: [BUG] PCIe bridge resource allocation creates invalid limit addresses after Secondary Bus Reset recovery

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2026, Shawn Jin wrote:

> Hi Ilpo,
> 
> Thanks for looking into the issue. Just a quick question. So the patch 
> you linked and the patch you attached is for the latest kernel, not 6.8. 
> Right? I'll try to install the latest kernel first and rerun my test and 
> keep you updated.

Yes, they are for the latest trees but I can look into backporting them if 
needed.

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> ________________________________________
> From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2026 6:24 AM
> To: Shawn Jin <shawn.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>; Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [BUG] PCIe bridge resource allocation creates invalid limit addresses after Secondary Bus Reset recovery
> 
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> 
> Hi,
> First of all, many of the changes related to this additional resource
> distribution do not really make sense to me.
> 
> There's one fix that tries to rectify to most gross wrongness in the
> adjustment itself because it caused a regression (not yet applied):
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260219153951.68869-1-ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> It probably doesn't address the bug you see here though it may hide it.
> 
> > [  796.604869] pcieport 0000:96:01.0: distributing available resources
> > [  796.604872] pci 0000:98:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x001fffff] extended by 0x0000000000100000
> > [  796.604876] pci 0000:99:00.0: bridge window [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0] extended by 0x0000000000055555
> > [  796.604880] pci 0000:99:01.0: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x001fffff] shrunken by 0x00000000000aaaac
> > [  796.604883] pci 0000:99:01.0: bridge window [mem 0x800000000-0xfffffffff 64bit pref] shrunken by 0x0000000000000001
> > [  796.604886] pci 0000:99:02.0: bridge window [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0] extended by 0x0000000000055555
> 
> Note how it's not just -1 that seems wrong, the other numbers too seem
> non-round (to 1M) as well.
> 
> There seems to be a number of problems with this entire algorithm.
> I think the -1 comes from remove_dev_resource() that is called for a
> resource which does have !res->flags (+ res->start=res->end=0 ->
> resource_size(res) == 1).
> 
> So could you please try the patch below.
> 
> Not that the fix makes everything okay IMO but perhaps it addresses this
> particular case. It's not even clear to me how some of the cases with not
> valid bridge windows should be dealt with while distributing the
> additional memory between the bridges.
> 
> The 55555 cases probably come from align == 0 which makes
> ALIGN_DOWN_IF_NONZERO() to produce non-aligning sizes. The fix patch below
> might address it.
> 
> I don't (yet) understand how that aaaac came to be, I suppose it somehow
> relates to this doing something unexpected so if you want to check that
> out, it would be helpful:
>                 align = pci_resource_alignment(bridge, res);
>                 if (!resource_assigned(res) && align)
>                         available[i].start = min(ALIGN(available[i].start, align),
>                                                  available[i].end + 1);
> 
> Another option is remove_dev_resource() doing something that leads to it.
> 
> It might be worth adding debug traps for available[i] getting non-1M
> aligned but it's not very clear to me how and where.
> 
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Ilpo=20J=C3=A4rvinen?= <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:59:43 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Skip not valid bridge windows while distributing
>  resources
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> 
> pci_bus_distribute_available_resources() distributes available
> resources between downstream bridges, however, it does not take
> into account cases where a bridge window is not valid.
> 
> Skip touching bridge windows that are not valid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/setup-bus.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c b/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
> index 61f769aaa2f6..4fcb5e0c44b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
> @@ -1868,6 +1868,9 @@ static void remove_dev_resource(struct resource *avail, struct pci_dev *dev,
>  {
>         resource_size_t size, align, tmp;
> 
> +       if (!res->flags)
> +               return;
> +
>         size = resource_size(res);
>         if (!size)
>                 return;
> @@ -1922,6 +1925,8 @@ static void pci_bus_distribute_available_resources(struct pci_bus *bus,
>                 available[i] = available_in[i];
> +               if (!res->flags)
> +                       continue;
>                 /*
>                  * The alignment of this bridge is yet to be considered,
>                  * hence it must be done now before extending its bridge
> @@ -1993,6 +1998,8 @@ static void pci_bus_distribute_available_resources(struct pci_bus *bus,
>                 for (i = 0; i < PCI_P2P_BRIDGE_RESOURCE_NUM; i++) {
>                         res = pci_resource_n(dev, PCI_BRIDGE_RESOURCES + i);
> 
> +                       if (!res->flags)
> +                               continue;
>                         /*
>                          * Make sure the split resource space is properly
>                          * aligned for bridge windows (align it down to
> base-commit: 6de23f81a5e08be8fbf5e8d7e9febc72a5b5f27f
> --
> 2.39.5
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