[PATCH 0/2] nvme-pci: Log failures to probe

Gerd Bayer gbayer at linux.ibm.com
Mon Oct 20 08:29:06 PDT 2025


Hi,

occasionally, an NVMe drive fails to reply to MMIO reads despite the PCI
link being operational. In these situations (obviously not on the
boot-device :) it is preferred to have this reported in the kernel log
instead of deducing that something is wrong by comparing expectated vs.
observed number of nvme devices.

 - 1/2 adds a clear indication that the device driver failed to probe an
   NVMe drive and will not register a nvme device.
 - 2/2 adds a debug log that allows to further zoom in on the exact
   failure

I've split this into two patches, since 2/2 might be less important wrt
to back-ports, etc.

Thanks,
Gerd

Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer at linux.ibm.com>
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Gerd Bayer (2):
      nvme-pci: Print error message on failure in nvme_probe
      nvme-pci: Add debug message on fail to read CSTS

 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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base-commit: 211ddde0823f1442e4ad052a2f30f050145ccada
change-id: 20251015-nvme_probefail-3976120a4719

Best regards,
-- 
Gerd Bayer <gbayer at linux.ibm.com>




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