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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 19:51:47 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Edmund Raile <edmund.raile@...ton.me>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 52/75] PCI: Mark LSI FW643 to avoid bus reset

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:17:02AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 08:42:33AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Edmund Raile <edmund.raile@...ton.me>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 29a43dc130ce65d365a8ea9e1cc4bc51005a353e ]
>>
>> Apparently the LSI / Agere FW643 can't recover after a Secondary Bus Reset
>> and requires a power-off or suspend/resume and rescan.
>>
>> VFIO resets a device before assigning it to a VM, and the FW643 doesn't
>> support any other reset methods, so this problem prevented assignment of
>> FW643 to VMs.
>>
>> Prevent use of Secondary Bus Reset for this device.
>>
>> With this change, the FW643 can be assigned to VMs with VFIO.  Note that it
>> will not be reset, resulting in leaking state between VMs and host.
>>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240227131401.17913-1-edmund.raile@proton.me
>> Signed-off-by: Edmund Raile <edmund.raile@...ton.me>
>> [bhelgaas: commit log, comment]
>> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>
>We're about to revert this upstream, so I wouldn't backport this to
>any stable trees:
>
>https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328212302.1582483-1-helgaas@kernel.org

I'll drop it, thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

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