Re: [PATCH] accel/amdxdna: Treat power-off failure as unrecoverable error

[Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>]

On 11/6/25 12:05 PM, Lizhi Hou wrote:
> Failing to set power off indicates an unrecoverable hardware or firmware
> error. Update the driver to treat such a failure as a fatal condition
> and stop further operations that depend on successful power state
> transition.
> 
> This prevents undefined behavior when the hardware remains in an
> unexpected state after a failed power-off attempt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>

Presumably all versions of hardware in the wild can handle receiving a 
power off command if they're already powered off?

> ---
>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_smu.c | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_smu.c b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_smu.c
> index 11c0e9e7b03a..bd94ee96c2bc 100644
> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_smu.c
> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_smu.c
> @@ -147,6 +147,16 @@ int aie2_smu_init(struct amdxdna_dev_hdl *ndev)
>   {
>   	int ret;
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * Failing to set power off indicates an unrecoverable hardware or
> +	 * firmware error.
> +	 */
> +	ret = aie2_smu_exec(ndev, AIE2_SMU_POWER_OFF, 0, NULL);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		XDNA_ERR(ndev->xdna, "Access power failed, ret %d", ret);
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +
>   	ret = aie2_smu_exec(ndev, AIE2_SMU_POWER_ON, 0, NULL);
>   	if (ret) {
>   		XDNA_ERR(ndev->xdna, "Power on failed, ret %d", ret);