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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:46:23 +0000
From: Hongxing Zhu <hongxing.zhu@....com>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v8 2/2] PCI: dwc: Don't return error when wait for link up
 in dw_pcie_resume_noirq()

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>
> Sent: 2026年1月13日 23:30
> To: Hongxing Zhu <hongxing.zhu@....com>
> Cc: Frank Li <frank.li@....com>; jingoohan1@...il.com;
> l.stach@...gutronix.de; lpieralisi@...nel.org; kwilczynski@...nel.org;
> robh@...nel.org; bhelgaas@...gle.com; shawnguo@...nel.org;
> s.hauer@...gutronix.de; kernel@...gutronix.de; festevam@...il.com;
> linux-pci@...r.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org;
> imx@...ts.linux.dev; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; stable@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] PCI: dwc: Don't return error when wait for link up
> in dw_pcie_resume_noirq()
>
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 10:45:53AM +0800, Richard Zhu wrote:
> > When waiting for the PCIe link to come up, both link up and link down
> > are valid results depending on the device state.
> >
> > Since the link may come up later and to get rid of the following
> > mis-reported PM errors. Do not return an -ETIMEDOUT error, as the
> > outcome has already been reported in dw_pcie_wait_for_link().
> >
> > PM error logs introduced by the -ETIMEDOUT error return.
> > imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: Phy link never came up imx6q-pcie
> > 33800000.pcie: PM: dpm_run_callback(): genpd_resume_noirq returns -110
> > imx6q-pcie 33800000.pcie: PM: failed to resume noirq: error -110
> >
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > Fixes: 4774faf854f5 ("PCI: dwc: Implement generic suspend/resume
> > functionality")
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Zhu <hongxing.zhu@....com>
> > Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@....com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c | 7 +++----
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> > b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> > index 06cbfd9e1f1e..025e11ebd571 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> > @@ -1245,10 +1245,9 @@ int dw_pcie_resume_noirq(struct dw_pcie *pci)
> >     if (ret)
> >             return ret;
> >
> > -   ret = dw_pcie_wait_for_link(pci);
> > -   if (ret)
> > -           return ret;
> > +   /* Ignore errors, the link may come up later */
> > +   dw_pcie_wait_for_link(pci);
>
> It is not safe to ignore failures during resume. Because, if a device gets
> removed during suspend, the link up error will be unnoticed. I've proposed a
> different logic in this series, which should address your issue:
> https://lore.kern/
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> Please test it out.
Hi Mani:
You're right.
Tested on i.MX platforms, no error return anymore. Only "Device not found" is
 dumped out when no endpoint device is connected. Thanks.
Tested-by: Richard Zhu <hongxing.zhu@....com>

Best Regards
Richard Zhu
>
> - Mani
>
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