On 6/30/26 8:03 AM, Yun Zhou wrote:

The mvneta driver uses the hardware Buffer Manager (BM) for RX buffer
allocation. During suspend, mvneta disables its clock, causing BM to
lose all buffer address state. On resume, mvneta_bm_port_init() re-
attaches the BM pool to the NIC, but BM hardware returns stale/garbage
buffer addresses. When NAPI poll processes these buffers, DMA cache
sync hits an invalid virtual address causing a kernel panic:

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address b0000080
 PC is at v7_dma_inv_range
 Call trace:
  v7_dma_inv_range from arch_sync_dma_for_cpu+0x94/0x158
  arch_sync_dma_for_cpu from __dma_sync_single_for_cpu+0xc4/0x15c
  __dma_sync_single_for_cpu from mvneta_rx_swbm+0x6c8/0xf48
  mvneta_rx_swbm from mvneta_poll+0x6fc/0x70c
  mvneta_poll from __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x2c/0x1e0
  __napi_poll.constprop.0 from net_rx_action+0x160/0x2c4
  net_rx_action from handle_softirqs+0xd8/0x2b8
  handle_softirqs from run_ksoftirqd+0x30/0x94
  run_ksoftirqd from smpboot_thread_fn+0x100/0x204
  smpboot_thread_fn from kthread+0xf4/0x110
  kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28

Fix by adding suspend/resume callbacks to the BM driver:

- suspend: drain all buffers (with DMA unmapping), free the BPPE
  regions, and reset pool state to FREE before stopping BM and gating
  the clock.

- resume: enable the clock, reinitialize BM defaults, and restore pool
  read/write pointers and size registers. Pool allocation and buffer
  refill are handled by mvneta_resume() through the normal
  mvneta_bm_port_init() path, which sees pools as FREE and performs
  full initialization identical to probe.

Add a device_link (DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER) in mvneta_probe to
guarantee BM resumes before mvneta and suspends after mvneta. If the
link cannot be created, fall back to SW buffer management to avoid a
potential crash on resume due to unordered PM transitions.

Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <redacted>

Sashiko gemini has found a bunch of pre-existing issues; it would be
nice if you could follow-up on them:

https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260630060311.4072140-1-yun.zhou%40windriver.com

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