From: Abhin Parekadan Jose <abhinjoses@gmail.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>,
"Shuai Xue" <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
"Mahesh J Salgaonkar" <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>,
"Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Abhin Parekadan Jose" <abhinjoses@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC v3 0/5] PCI: pciehp: Report surprise removal during safe removal
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:51:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260927175203.928270-1-abhinjoses@gmail.com> (raw)
If a safe removal is already in progress when the device is surprise
removed, pciehp cannot report the disconnect [1]. The removal blocks
waiting on a device interrupt or status read, and pciehp's IRQ thread is
single-threaded and is itself executing that removal, so it never runs
again to report the device gone. The removal hangs indefinitely.
pciehp_isr() does run while the IRQ thread is blocked, but pciehp_ist()
must ignore link and presence changes caused by Secondary Bus Reset or
DPC, and telling those apart takes seconds which cannot be spent in
hardirq.
Patch 4 does not do that work in hardirq. pciehp_isr() only checks
whether the card is present or the link is active, and defers the rest
to a work item in process context. The work item does not need to know
why the link changed, only whether the card is gone: it waits for DPC
recovery or a Secondary Bus Reset in progress to complete, then checks
again under reset_lock, and if the card is absent and the link is down
marks the devices below disconnected, which schedules the driver's
disconnect work from patch 1. pciehp_ist() is unchanged and
remains the only consumer of the one-shot flags PCI_DPC_RECOVERED and
PCI_LINK_CHANGED, which tell it whether a link change can be ignored.
Patches:
1/5 Michael's "PCI: Report surprise removal event" from his RFC v5,
which adds disconnect_work_enable and pdev->disconnect_work.
Changed to serialize disconnect_work_enable with a per-device
spinlock.
2/5 Add pci_hp_wait_link_change(), which awaits a Secondary Bus Reset
in progress without consuming PCI_LINK_CHANGED.
3/5 Add pci_dpc_wait_recovery(), which awaits DPC recovery without
consuming PCI_DPC_RECOVERED.
4/5 The pciehp change. Adds disconnect_work to struct controller,
scheduled from pciehp_isr() on PDC or DLLSC when neither Presence
Detect State nor Data Link Layer Link Active indicates a card.
5/5 A POC driver for the QEMU edu device that blocks in remove()
waiting for an interrupt, standing in for del_gendisk() stuck in
blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait(). Not for merge -- included so the
hang can be reproduced.
Changes since RFC v2 [4]:
- 1/5: Protect disconnect_work_enable with a per-device spinlock, held
while testing it and scheduling the work, instead of lockless
accesses and barriers. pci_dev_set_disconnected() could otherwise
test the flag, get preempted, and queue the work while a newly bound
driver re-initializes it. With the lock, cancel_work_sync() is
sufficient again, so go back to it from disable_work_sync().
(Sashiko)
- 2/5: Test PCI_LINK_CHANGING with test_bit_acquire(), so that the
caller's subsequent accesses are ordered after the end of the code
section even if wait_event() returns without sleeping. (Sashiko)
- 3/5, 4/5, 5/5: No changes.
Changes since RFC v1 [2]:
- 1/5: Use disable_work_sync() instead of cancel_work_sync() in
pci_clear_disconnect_work(), so that a racing schedule_work() cannot
queue the work after remove() has returned. (Sashiko)
- 2/5, 3/5: New.
- 4/5: Drop schedule_notification_work(); pci_dev_set_disconnected()
schedules the driver's disconnect work for all callers again.
(Michael)
- 4/5: Don't consume PCI_DPC_RECOVERED and PCI_LINK_CHANGED in the
work item. In v1 it ran the same spurious link change test as
pciehp_ist(), and whichever ran first took the flags, so pciehp_ist()
could tear down a device that was only reset. (Sashiko)
- 4/5: Check presence with pciehp_card_present_or_link_active() in
both pciehp_isr() and the work item, as pciehp_ist() does, so that a
port with Presence Detect State hardwired to zero is not mistaken
for an empty slot.
- 4/5: Return early from the work item if pciehp_ist() has already
taken the pending events, and treat a read error of the presence
check as "not present". (Sashiko)
- 4/5: In pciehp_isr(), check presence before dropping the runtime PM
reference on the port's parent. In the work item, take a runtime PM
reference and check presence under reset_lock, since a slot reset
may make Presence Detect State and Link Active flap.
- 5/5: Build only with CONFIG_EDU_SRPOC, which depends on PCI; don't
claim the interrupt when the device reads all ones; clear bus
mastering on teardown. (Sashiko)
Testing
Reproducing this needs QEMU changes, since neither device_del nor the
attention button produces a true surprise removal. A branch with both
is here [3]:
- a delayed-IRQ register on the edu device (BAR0 0x30, write N ms)
- a pcie_surprise_del monitor command that drops the device and
generates PDC=1, DLLSC=1, PDS=0
Both tests use:
./qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,gic-version=3 -cpu cortex-a57 \
-m 512 -smp 2 -kernel Image -initrd initramfs.cpio.gz \
-device pcie-root-port,id=rp1,chassis=1,slot=1 \
-device edu,bus=rp1,id=edu0 -append "console=ttyAMA0 rdinit=/init" \
-nographic -monitor unix:/tmp/qemu-mon.sock,server,nowait
and need a guest kernel with CONFIG_EDU_SRPOC=y.
Test 1 (Hang in remove() on a user thread, then surprise removal):
guest# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/remove &
host$ echo "pcie_surprise_del edu0" | socat - unix-connect:/tmp/qemu-mon.sock
This is the case patch 1 solves on its own: pciehp's IRQ thread is
free and handles the removal.
Test 2 (Hang in remove() on pciehp's IRQ thread, then surprise removal):
guest# echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/slots/1/power &
host$ echo "pcie_surprise_del edu0" | socat - unix-connect:/tmp/qemu-mon.sock
Without patch 4 the safe removal does not return until the delayed
interrupt fires 600 s later. With it,
pciehp_isr() schedules ctrl->disconnect_work, which marks the device
disconnected; the POC driver's disconnect work completes the wait and
remove() proceeds.
Open questions
- Is this a viable approach?
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/aHlZE18kPuHuDtTT@wunner.de/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260905183905.997833-1-abhinjoses@gmail.com/
[3] https://gitlab.com/abhinkop/qemu/-/commits/suprise-removal
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260927165459.829900-1-abhinjoses@gmail.com/
Assisted-by: LLM
Abhin Parekadan Jose (4):
PCI: pciehp: Add pci_hp_wait_link_change()
PCI/DPC: Add pci_dpc_wait_recovery()
PCI: pciehp: Report surprise removal from pciehp_isr()
misc: Add edu_srpoc surprise removal POC driver
Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
PCI: Report surprise removal event
drivers/misc/Kconfig | 11 ++
drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/misc/edu_srpoc.c | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c | 21 ++-
drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.h | 1 +
drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c | 67 ++++++++++
drivers/pci/pci.h | 10 ++
drivers/pci/pcie/dpc.c | 54 ++++++--
drivers/pci/probe.c | 1 +
include/linux/pci.h | 57 +++++++++
10 files changed, 380 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/misc/edu_srpoc.c
base-commit: fd179f8a05be3ccae366b9b96e176b51fbe54aab
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2.51.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-27 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-27 17:51 Abhin Parekadan Jose [this message]
2026-09-27 17:51 ` [PATCH RFC v3 1/5] PCI: Report surprise removal event Abhin Parekadan Jose
2026-09-27 17:51 ` [PATCH RFC v3 2/5] PCI: pciehp: Add pci_hp_wait_link_change() Abhin Parekadan Jose
2026-09-27 17:52 ` [PATCH RFC v3 3/5] PCI/DPC: Add pci_dpc_wait_recovery() Abhin Parekadan Jose
2026-09-27 17:52 ` [PATCH RFC v3 4/5] PCI: pciehp: Report surprise removal from pciehp_isr() Abhin Parekadan Jose
2026-09-27 17:52 ` [PATCH RFC v3 5/5] misc: Add edu_srpoc surprise removal POC driver Abhin Parekadan Jose
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