[PATCH] Revert "phy: qcom: qmp-pcie: Skip PHY reset if already up"
Thorsten Leemhuis
regressions at leemhuis.info
Tue Oct 27 08:46:11 PDT 2026
On 10/13/26 16:22, Michael Burch wrote:
> This reverts commit 910b828b22b7b91054b3bd4be676a017444b0e00.
What happened to this regression fix? Is this still needed? And if it
is: is this on the way to 7.4-rc1? Looks like it fell through the
cracks, but well, it's easy to miss something from the outside.
Ciao, Thorsten
> That commit skips the no-csr reset assert/deassert (and the 200-300us
> settle) whenever the bootloader already brought the PCIe QMP PHY up:
>
> skip_reset = qmp->skip_init &&
> !qphy_checkbits(pcs, cfg->regs[QPHY_PCS_STATUS],
> cfg->phy_status);
>
> and states its own assumption explicitly: "This relies on the assumption
> that when skip_init is enabled and the PHY is reported as up, the
> bootloader has already configured the PHY correctly and the link is in a
> usable state."
>
> That assumption does not hold on the Dell XPS 13 9345 (X1E80100). UEFI
> boots from the NVMe behind pcie6a, so the PHY is always already started
> when Linux takes over, skip_init is true, and the reset is skipped. The
> link then never retrains and the root port comes up with no endpoint:
>
> qcom-pcie 1bf8000.pcie: Device found, but not active
> pci 0006:00:00.0: [17cb:0111] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe Root Port
> (no 0006:01:00.0, no nvme at all)
>
> "Device found, but not active" is dw_pcie_wait_for_link() reporting LTSSM
> stuck in POLL.Active/POLL.Compliance -- receiver detected, training never
> completes -- so the machine cannot find its root filesystem and drops to
> a dracut emergency shell. v7.2 is unaffected because it always performed
> the reset.
>
> The commit was applied on its own as patch 1/4 of "PCI: qcom: Add link
> retention support"; 2/4-4/4 have not landed. Without them,
> qcom_pcie_host_init() still asserts PERST# and resets the controller
> before qcom_pcie_phy_power_on(), so the link is down while
> QPHY_PCS_STATUS still reports the bootloader's state, and the skip's
> precondition never holds. Revert it until the rest of the series lands.
>
> Fixes: 910b828b22b7 ("phy: qcom: qmp-pcie: Skip PHY reset if already up")
> Signed-off-by: Michael Burch <me at michaelburch.net>
> ---
> Reproduced today with Fedora's stock 7.3.0-0.rc7.58 kernel: the NVMe
> never enumerates and boot stops in dracut. It was first seen here on
> the stock 7.3.0-0.rc2 kernel. Every 7.3 build I have made with this
> revert finds the NVMe (Gen4 x4 link up); the latest are v7.3-rc6 based.
> Applying 2/4-4/4 of the original series on top of -rc2 also boots, but
> only with clk_ignore_unused here. This applies to v7.3-rc7 and to
> linux-phy fixes.
>
> Qiang Yu's "PCI: qcom: Align PHY init sequence with HPG" carries the
> same skip into the new phy_ops::reset. I'm replying there separately.
>
> #regzbot introduced: 910b828b22b7
>
> drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-pcie.c | 31 ++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-pcie.c b/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-pcie.c
> index da83358c97ea..17c53ae62fac 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-pcie.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-pcie.c
> @@ -5677,7 +5677,6 @@ static int qmp_pcie_init(struct phy *phy)
> struct qmp_pcie *qmp = phy_get_drvdata(phy);
> const struct qmp_phy_cfg *cfg = qmp->cfg;
> void __iomem *pcs = qmp->pcs;
> - bool skip_reset;
> int ret;
>
> /*
> @@ -5693,9 +5692,6 @@ static int qmp_pcie_init(struct phy *phy)
> qphy_checkbits(pcs, cfg->regs[QPHY_START_CTRL], SERDES_START | PCS_START) &&
> qphy_checkbits(pcs, cfg->regs[QPHY_PCS_POWER_DOWN_CONTROL], cfg->pwrdn_ctrl);
>
> - skip_reset = qmp->skip_init && !qphy_checkbits(pcs, cfg->regs[QPHY_PCS_STATUS],
> - cfg->phy_status);
> -
> if (!qmp->skip_init && !cfg->tbls.serdes_num) {
> dev_err(qmp->dev, "Init sequence not available\n");
> return -ENODATA;
> @@ -5719,16 +5715,14 @@ static int qmp_pcie_init(struct phy *phy)
> }
> }
>
> - if (!skip_reset) {
> - ret = reset_control_assert(qmp->nocsr_reset);
> - if (ret) {
> - dev_err(qmp->dev, "no-csr reset assert failed\n");
> - goto err_assert_reset;
> - }
> -
> - usleep_range(200, 300);
> + ret = reset_control_assert(qmp->nocsr_reset);
> + if (ret) {
> + dev_err(qmp->dev, "no-csr reset assert failed\n");
> + goto err_assert_reset;
> }
>
> + usleep_range(200, 300);
> +
> if (!qmp->skip_init) {
> ret = reset_control_bulk_deassert(cfg->num_resets, qmp->resets);
> if (ret) {
> @@ -5777,11 +5771,8 @@ static int qmp_pcie_power_on(struct phy *phy)
> void __iomem *pcs = qmp->pcs;
> void __iomem *status;
> unsigned int mask, val;
> - bool skip_reset;
> int ret;
>
> - skip_reset = qmp->skip_init && !qphy_checkbits(pcs, cfg->regs[QPHY_PCS_STATUS],
> - cfg->phy_status);
> /*
> * Write CSR register for PHY that doesn't support no_csr reset or has not
> * been initialized.
> @@ -5805,12 +5796,10 @@ static int qmp_pcie_power_on(struct phy *phy)
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> - if (!skip_reset) {
> - ret = reset_control_deassert(qmp->nocsr_reset);
> - if (ret) {
> - dev_err(qmp->dev, "no-csr reset deassert failed\n");
> - goto err_disable_pipe_clk;
> - }
> + ret = reset_control_deassert(qmp->nocsr_reset);
> + if (ret) {
> + dev_err(qmp->dev, "no-csr reset deassert failed\n");
> + goto err_disable_pipe_clk;
> }
>
> if (qmp->skip_init)
>
> base-commit: 24a19b953e2a3d0ea5a8c4951a0ab8f32720c907
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