[PATCH v2 2/2] spi: qcom-geni: Add panic notifier to cancel and reset DMA during panic

From: Praveen Talari

Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 06:47:51 EST


When a VM crashes with an active SPI DMA transfer in progress, the
SMMU raises context faults as the DMA engine continues to access
IOVAs that are invalidated when the VM's memory context is torn down.
These faults can affect other VMs sharing the same SMMU instance and
obscure the root cause of the crash.

Register a panic notifier that cancels (or aborts, if cancel doesn't
complete) the in-flight command and resets the TX/RX DMA FSMs, so the
DMA engine stops issuing transactions against invalidated IOVAs
before the system halts. For GPI DMA mode, the DMA channels are
terminated directly via dmaengine_terminate_async().

The notifier bails out early if the device is not runtime-active or
if there's no active GENI command, avoiding unnecessary register
accesses while the SE is clock-gated or idle.

Since panic notifiers run with IRQs and preemption disabled,
completion-based waits used by the regular error-handling path
(handle_se_timeout()) cannot be reused here. Instead, the relevant
status registers are polled directly with
readl_poll_timeout_atomic(), which is safe to call in this context.

Signed-off-by: Praveen Talari <praveen.talari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 68 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c b/drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c
index 39d67f19244c..dae806818413 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@
#include <linux/dma/qcom-gpi-dma.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/iopoll.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/panic_notifier.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/pm_opp.h>
#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
@@ -115,6 +117,7 @@ struct spi_geni_master {
struct dma_chan *rx;
int cur_xfer_mode;
const struct geni_spi_desc *dev_data;
+ struct notifier_block panic_nb;
};

static void spi_slv_setup(struct spi_geni_master *mas)
@@ -1073,6 +1076,62 @@ static void spi_geni_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
spi_controller_suspend(spi);
}

+static int spi_geni_panic_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
+ unsigned long action, void *data)
+{
+ struct spi_geni_master *mas = container_of(nb, struct spi_geni_master, panic_nb);
+ struct spi_controller *spi = dev_get_drvdata(mas->dev);
+ struct geni_se *se = &mas->se;
+ u32 val;
+
+ if (!pm_runtime_active(mas->dev))
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+
+ if (mas->cur_xfer_mode == GENI_GPI_DMA) {
+ dmaengine_terminate_async(mas->tx);
+ dmaengine_terminate_async(mas->rx);
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+ }
+
+ if (!(readl_relaxed(se->base + SE_GENI_STATUS) & M_GENI_CMD_ACTIVE))
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+
+ if (!spi->target) {
+ geni_se_cancel_m_cmd(se);
+ if (!readl_poll_timeout_atomic(se->base + SE_GENI_M_IRQ_STATUS, val,
+ val & M_CMD_CANCEL_EN, 10, 50000)) {
+ writel_relaxed(M_CMD_CANCEL_EN, se->base + SE_GENI_M_IRQ_CLEAR);
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+ }
+ }
+
+ geni_se_abort_m_cmd(se);
+ if (!readl_poll_timeout_atomic(se->base + SE_GENI_M_IRQ_STATUS, val,
+ val & M_CMD_ABORT_EN, 10, 50000))
+ writel_relaxed(M_CMD_ABORT_EN, se->base + SE_GENI_M_IRQ_CLEAR);
+
+ if (mas->cur_xfer_mode == GENI_SE_DMA) {
+ writel_relaxed(1, se->base + SE_DMA_TX_FSM_RST);
+ readl_poll_timeout_atomic(se->base + SE_DMA_TX_IRQ_STAT, val,
+ val & TX_RESET_DONE, 10, 50000);
+ writel_relaxed(val, se->base + SE_DMA_TX_IRQ_CLR);
+
+ writel_relaxed(1, se->base + SE_DMA_RX_FSM_RST);
+ readl_poll_timeout_atomic(se->base + SE_DMA_RX_IRQ_STAT, val,
+ val & RX_RESET_DONE, 10, 50000);
+ writel_relaxed(val, se->base + SE_DMA_RX_IRQ_CLR);
+ }
+
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
+static void spi_geni_unregister_notifiers(void *data)
+{
+ struct spi_geni_master *mas = data;
+
+ atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&panic_notifier_list, &mas->panic_nb);
+}
+
static int spi_geni_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
int ret, irq;
@@ -1161,6 +1220,15 @@ static int spi_geni_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (ret)
return ret;

+ mas->panic_nb.notifier_call = spi_geni_panic_notifier;
+ ret = atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &mas->panic_nb);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, spi_geni_unregister_notifiers, mas);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
return devm_spi_register_controller(dev, spi);
}


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