linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] nvme-apple: Do not try to shut down the controller twice

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Message-ID: <20230111045402.GB15520@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:54:02 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
Cc:     Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Eric Curtin <ecurtin@...hat.com>, Janne Grunau <j@...nau.net>,
        Sven Peter <sven@...npeter.dev>,
        Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>,
        asahi@...ts.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nvme-apple: Do not try to shut down the controller
 twice

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 01:36:13PM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
> The blamed commit stopped explicitly disabling the controller when we do
> a controlled shutdown, but apple_nvme_reset_work was only checking for
> the disable bit before deciding to issue another disable. Check for the
> shutdown state too, to avoid breakage.
> 
> This issue does not affect nvme-pci, since it only issues controller
> shutdowns when the system is actually shutting down anyway.

There's a few other places where nvme-pci does a shutdown like
probe/reset failure and most notably and mostly notably various
power management scenarios.

What path is causing a problem here for nvme-apple?  I fear we're
missing some highler level check here and getting further out of
sync.