Re: [PATCH 0/3] powerpc: Cleanup and convert to MSI parent domain
From: Nam Cao <hidden>
Date: 2025-07-22 20:31:50
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Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 02:05:55PM +0530, Gautam Menghani wrote:quoted
I am seeing a boot failure after applying this series on top of the pci tree [1]. Note that this error was seen on a system where I have a dedicated NVME. Systems without dedicated disk boot fineThanks for the report. Using QEMU, I cannot reproduce the exact same problem, but I do observe a different one. They are likely from the same root cause. Let me investigate..
So the problem is due to the pair msi_prepare() and msi_post_free(). Before this series, msi_prepare() is called whenever interrupt is allocated. However, after this series, msi_prepare() is called only at domain creation. For most device drivers, this difference does not have any impact. However, the NVME driver is slightly "special", it does this: 1. Allocate interrupts 2. Free interrupts 3. Allocate interrupts again Before this series: (1) calls msi_prepare() (2) calls msi_post_free() (3) calls msi_prepare() again and it happens to work. However, after this series: (1) calls msi_prepare() (2) calls msi_post_free() (3) does not call either and we are in trouble. A simple solution is using msi_teardown() instead, which is called at domain destruction. It makes more sense this way as well, because msi_teardown() is supposed to reverse what msi_prepare() does. This would also remove the only user of msi_post_free(), allowing us to delete that callback. The below patch fixes the problem that I saw with QEMU. Does it fix the problem on your side as well? Best regards, Nam
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
index 70be6e24427d..7da142dd5baa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c@@ -441,12 +441,12 @@ static int pseries_msi_ops_prepare(struct irq_domain *domain, struct device *dev * RTAS can not disable one MSI at a time. It's all or nothing. Do it * at the end after all IRQs have been freed. */ -static void pseries_msi_post_free(struct irq_domain *domain, struct device *dev) +static void pseries_msi_ops_teardown(struct irq_domain *domain, msi_alloc_info_t *arg) { - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!dev_is_pci(dev))) - return; + struct msi_desc *desc = arg->desc; + struct pci_dev *pdev = msi_desc_to_pci_dev(desc); - rtas_disable_msi(to_pci_dev(dev)); + rtas_disable_msi(pdev); } static void pseries_msi_shutdown(struct irq_data *d)
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ static bool pseries_init_dev_msi_info(struct device *dev, struct irq_domain *dom chip->irq_write_msi_msg = pseries_msi_write_msg; info->ops->msi_prepare = pseries_msi_ops_prepare; - info->ops->msi_post_free = pseries_msi_post_free; + info->ops->msi_teardown = pseries_msi_ops_teardown; return true; }