[PATCH 4/5] PCI: mediatek-gen3: Don't reply AXI slave error

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Fri Jan 3 01:29:10 PST 2025


Il 03/01/25 07:00, Jianjun Wang ha scritto:
> There are some circumstances where the EP device will not respond to
> non-posted access from the root port (e.g., MMIO read). In such cases,
> the root port will reply with an AXI slave error, which will be treated
> as a System Error (SError), causing a kernel panic and preventing us
> from obtaining any useful information for further debugging.
> 
> We have added a new bit in the PCIE_AXI_IF_CTRL_REG register to prevent
> PCIe AXI0 from replying with a slave error. Setting this bit on an older
> platform that does not support this feature will have no effect.
> 
> By preventing AXI0 from replying with a slave error, we can keep the
> kernel alive and debug using the information from AER.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianjun Wang <jianjun.wang at mediatek.com>
> ---
>   drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> index 4bd3b39eebe2..48f83c2d91f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> @@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
>   #define PCIE_LOW_POWER_CTRL_REG		0x194
>   #define PCIE_FORCE_DIS_L0S		BIT(8)
>   
> +#define PCIE_AXI_IF_CTRL_REG		0x1a8
> +#define PCIE_AXI0_SLV_RESP_MASK		BIT(12)
> +
>   #define PCIE_PIPE4_PIE8_REG		0x338
>   #define PCIE_K_FINETUNE_MAX		GENMASK(5, 0)
>   #define PCIE_K_FINETUNE_ERR		GENMASK(7, 6)
> @@ -469,6 +472,15 @@ static int mtk_pcie_startup_port(struct mtk_gen3_pcie *pcie)
>   	val |= PCIE_FORCE_DIS_L0S;
>   	writel_relaxed(val, pcie->base + PCIE_LOW_POWER_CTRL_REG);
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * Prevent PCIe AXI0 from replying a slave error, as it will cause kernel panic
> +	 * and prevent us from getting useful information.
> +	 * Keep the kernel alive and debug using the information from AER.
> +	 */

Isn't it safer if we set this bit at the beginning of mtk_pcie_startup_port()
instead?

Cheers,
Angelo

> +	val = readl_relaxed(pcie->base + PCIE_AXI_IF_CTRL_REG);
> +	val |= PCIE_AXI0_SLV_RESP_MASK;
> +	writel_relaxed(val, pcie->base + PCIE_AXI_IF_CTRL_REG);
> +
>   	/* Disable DVFSRC voltage request */
>   	val = readl_relaxed(pcie->base + PCIE_MISC_CTRL_REG);
>   	val |= PCIE_DISABLE_DVFSRC_VLT_REQ;






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