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Message-ID: <bixtbu7hzs5rwrgj22ff53souxvpd7vqysktpcnxvd66jrsizf@pelid4rjhips>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 21:39:28 +0530
From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.ibm.com>, 
	Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@...il.com>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, 
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@...ux.com>, 
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>, 
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>, 
	Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, 
	Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>, Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@...rochip.com>, 
	dingwei@...vell.com, cassel@...nel.org, Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, 
	Krishna Chaitanya Chundru <krishna.chundru@....qualcomm.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] PCI: host-common: Add link down handling for host
 bridges

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 06:34:04AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 09:16:59AM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 05:35:00PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 12:40:33PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > > > The PCI link, when down, needs to be recovered to bring it back. But that
> > > > cannot be done in a generic way as link recovery procedure is specific to
> > > > host bridges. So add a new API pci_host_handle_link_down() that could be
> > > > called by the host bridge drivers when the link goes down.
> > > > 
> > > > The API will iterate through all the slots and calls the pcie_do_recovery()
> > > > function with 'pci_channel_io_frozen' as the state. This will result in the
> > > > execution of the AER Fatal error handling code. Since the link down
> > > > recovery is pretty much the same as AER Fatal error handling,
> > > > pcie_do_recovery() helper is reused here. First the AER error_detected
> > > > callback will be triggered for the bridge and the downstream devices. Then,
> > > > pci_host_reset_slot() will be called for the slot, which will reset the
> > > > slot using 'reset_slot' callback to recover the link. Once that's done,
> > > > resume message will be broadcasted to the bridge and the downstream devices
> > > > indicating successful link recovery.
> > > 
> > > Link down is an event for a single Root Port.  Why would we iterate
> > > through all the Root Ports if the link went down for one of them?
> > 
> > Because on the reference platform (Qcom), link down notification is
> > not per-port, but per controller. So that's why we are iterating
> > through all ports.  The callback is supposed to identify the ports
> > that triggered the link down event and recover them.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something.  Which callback identifies the port(s)
> that triggered the link down event?

I was referring to the host_bridge::reset_root_port() callback that resets the
root ports.

>  I see that
> pci_host_handle_link_down() is called by
> rockchip_pcie_rc_sys_irq_thread() and qcom_pcie_global_irq_thread(),
> but I don't see the logic that identifies a particular Root Port.
> 
> Per-controller notification of per-port events is a controller
> deficiency, not something inherent to PCIe.  I don't think we should
> build common infrastructure that resets all the Root Ports just
> because one of them had an issue.
> 

Hmm, fair enough.

> I think pci_host_handle_link_down() should take a Root Port, not a
> host bridge, and the controller driver should figure out which port
> needs to be recovered, or the controller driver can have its own loop
> to recover all of them if it can't figure out which one needs it.
> 

This should also work. Feel free to drop the relevant commits for v6.16, I can
resubmit them (including dw-rockchip after -rc1).

- Mani

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