nvme-pci: Disabling device after reset failure: -5 occurs while AER recovery

Tushar Dave tdave at nvidia.com
Wed Mar 15 13:01:30 PDT 2023



On 3/14/23 10:26, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:11:27AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 05:57:43PM -0700, Tushar Dave wrote:
>>> On 3/11/23 00:22, Lukas Wunner wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 05:45:48PM -0800, Tushar Dave wrote:
>>>>> On 3/10/2023 3:53 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>>>>> In the log below, pciehp obviously is enabled; should I infer that in
>>>>>> the log above, it is not?
>>>>>
>>>>> pciehp is enabled all the time. In the log above and below.
>>>>> I do not have answer yet why pciehp shows-up only in some tests (due to DPC
>>>>> link down/up) and not in others like you noticed in both the logs.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe some of the switch Downstream Ports are hotplug-capable and
>>>> some are not?  (Check the Slot Implemented bit in the PCI Express
>>>> Capabilities Register as well as the Hot-Plug Capable bit in the
>>>> Slot Capabilities Register.)
>>>> ...
>>
>>>>>> Generally we've avoided handling a device reset as a
>>>>>> remove/add event because upper layers can't deal well with
>>>>>> that.  But in the log below it looks like pciehp *did* treat
>>>>>> the DPC containment as a remove/add, which of course involves
>>>>>> configuring the "new" device and its MPS settings.
>>>>>
>>>>> yes and that puzzled me why? especially when"Link Down/Up
>>>>> ignored (recovered by DPC)". Do we still have race somewhere, I
>>>>> am not sure.
>>>>
>>>> You're seeing the expected behavior.  pciehp ignores DLLSC events
>>>> caused by DPC, but then double-checks that DPC recovery succeeded.
>>>> If it didn't, it would be a bug not to bring down the slot.  So
>>>> pciehp does exactly that.  See this code snippet in
>>>> pciehp_ignore_dpc_link_change():
>>>>
>>>> 	/*
>>>> 	 * If the link is unexpectedly down after successful recovery,
>>>> 	 * the corresponding link change may have been ignored above.
>>>> 	 * Synthesize it to ensure that it is acted on.
>>>> 	 */
>>>> 	down_read_nested(&ctrl->reset_lock, ctrl->depth);
>>>> 	if (!pciehp_check_link_active(ctrl))
>>>> 		pciehp_request(ctrl, PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_DLLSC);
>>>> 	up_read(&ctrl->reset_lock);
>>>>
>>>> So on hotplug-capable ports, pciehp is able to mop up the mess
>>>> created by fiddling with the MPS settings behind the kernel's
>>>> back.
>>>
>>> That's the thing, even on hotplug-capable slot I do not see pciehp
>>> _all_ the time. Sometime pciehp get involve and takes care of things
>>> (like I mentioned in the previous thread) and other times no pciehp
>>> engagement at all!
>>
>> Possibly a timing issue, so I'll be interested to see if 53b54ad074de
>> ("PCI/DPC: Await readiness of secondary bus after reset") makes any
>> difference.  Lukas didn't mention that, so maybe it's a red herring,
>> but I'm still curious since it explicitly mentions the DPC reset case
>> that you're exercising here.

Commit 53b54ad074de ("PCI/DPC: Await readiness of secondary bus after reset") 
didn't help.

[ 6265.268757] pcieport 0000:a5:01.0: EDR: EDR event received
[ 6265.276034] pcieport 0000:a5:01.0: EDR: Reported EDR dev: 0000:a9:10.0
[ 6265.283780] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: DPC: containment event, status:0x2009 
source:0x0000
[ 6265.292972] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: DPC: unmasked uncorrectable error detected
[ 6265.301284] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected 
(Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Receiver ID)
[ 6265.313569] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0:   device [1000:c030] error 
status/mask=00040000/00180000
[ 6265.323208] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0:    [18] MalfTLP                (First)
[ 6265.331084] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER:   TLP Header: 6000007a ab0000ff 
00000001 629d4318
[ 6265.340536] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER: broadcast error_detected message
[ 6265.348320] nvme nvme1: frozen state error detected, reset controller
[ 6265.419633] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: waiting 100 ms for downstream link, after 
activation
[ 6265.627639] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER: broadcast slot_reset message
[ 6265.635289] nvme nvme1: restart after slot reset
[ 6265.641016] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3c (was 
0x100, writing 0x1ff)
[ 6265.651248] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x30 (was 
0x0, writing 0xe0600000)
[ 6265.661739] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x10 (was 
0x4, writing 0xe0710004)
[ 6265.672210] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0xc (was 0x0, 
writing 0x8)
[ 6265.681897] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x4 (was 
0x100000, writing 0x100546)
[ 6265.692616] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER: broadcast resume message
[ 6265.716299] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x0 (reading 
0xa824144d)
[ 6265.725614] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x4 (reading 
0x100546)
[ 6265.734657] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x8 (reading 
0x1080200)
[ 6265.743824] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0xc (reading 0x8)
[ 6265.752348] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x10 (reading 
0xe0710004)
[ 6265.761647] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x14 (reading 0x0)
[ 6265.770247] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x18 (reading 0x0)
[ 6265.778857] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x1c (reading 0x0)
[ 6265.787450] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x20 (reading 0x0)
[ 6265.796034] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x24 (reading 0x0)
[ 6265.804620] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x28 (reading 0x0)
[ 6265.813201] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x2c (reading 
0xa80a144d)
[ 6265.822473] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x30 (reading 
0xe0600000)
[ 6265.831816] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x34 (reading 0x40)
[ 6265.840482] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x38 (reading 0x0)
[ 6265.849037] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: saving config space at offset 0x3c (reading 0x1ff)
[ 6275.037534] block nvme1n1: no usable path - requeuing I/O
[ 6326.920009] nvme nvme1: I/O 22 QID 0 timeout, disable controller
[ 6326.988701] nvme nvme1: Identify Controller failed (-4)
[ 6326.995253] nvme nvme1: Disabling device after reset failure: -5
[ 6327.032308] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER: device recovery successful
[ 6327.039781] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: EDR: DPC port successfully recovered
[ 6327.047687] pcieport 0000:a5:01.0: EDR: Status for 0000:a9:10.0: 0x80
[ 6327.083131] pcieport 0000:a5:01.0: EDR: EDR event received
[ 6327.090173] pcieport 0000:a5:01.0: EDR: Reported EDR dev: 0000:a9:10.0
[ 6327.097816] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: DPC: containment event, status:0x2009 
source:0x0000
[ 6327.107009] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: DPC: unmasked uncorrectable error detected
[ 6327.115330] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected 
(Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Receiver ID)
[ 6327.127640] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0:   device [1000:c030] error 
status/mask=00040000/00180000
[ 6327.137319] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0:    [18] MalfTLP                (First)
[ 6327.145236] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER:   TLP Header: 60000080 ab0000ff 
00000001 5ad65000
[ 6327.154728] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER: broadcast error_detected message
[ 6327.162624] nvme nvme1: frozen state error detected, reset controller
[ 6327.183979] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: waiting 100 ms for downstream link, after 
activation
[ 6327.387969] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER: broadcast slot_reset message
[ 6327.395596] nvme nvme1: restart after slot reset
[ 6327.401313] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3c (was 
0x100, writing 0x1ff)
[ 6327.411517] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x30 (was 
0x0, writing 0xe0600000)
[ 6327.422045] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x10 (was 
0x4, writing 0xe0710004)
[ 6327.432523] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0xc (was 0x0, 
writing 0x8)
[ 6327.442212] nvme 0000:ab:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x4 (was 
0x100000, writing 0x100546)
[ 6327.452933] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER: broadcast resume message
[ 6327.460184] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: AER: device recovery successful
[ 6327.467533] pcieport 0000:a9:10.0: EDR: DPC port successfully recovered
[ 6327.475367] pcieport 0000:a5:01.0: EDR: Status for 0000:a9:10.0: 0x80

> 
> Catching the PDC event may be timing related. pciehp ignores the link events
> during a DPC event, but it always reacts to PDC since it's indistinguishable
> from a DPC occuring in response to a surprise removal, and these slots probably
> don't have out-of-band presence detection.

yeah, In-Band PD Disable bit in Slot Control register of PCIe Downstream Switch 
port is set to '0' , no idea about out-of-band presence detection!



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