[PATCH v3 0/6] PowerNV PCIe Hotplug Driver Fixes

Bjorn Helgaas helgaas at kernel.org
Wed Jul 23 06:47:04 AEST 2025


[-> to: Madhavan, Michael, Mahesh; seeking acks]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 06:27:52PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 04:31:49PM -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > This series includes several fixes for bugs in the PowerNV PCIe hotplug
> > driver that were discovered in testing with a Microsemi Switchtec PM8533
> > PFX 48xG3 PCIe switch on a PowerNV system, as well as one workaround for
> > PCIe switches that don't correctly implement slot presence detection
> > such as the aforementioned one. Without the workaround, the switch works
> > and downstream devices can be hot-unplugged, but the devices never come
> > back online after being plugged in again until the system is rebooted.
> > Other hotplug drivers (like pciehp_hpc) use a similar workaround.
> > 
> > Also included are fixes for the EEH driver to make it hotplug safe,
> > and a small patch to enable all three attention indicator states per
> > the PCIe specification.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Shawn Anastasio (2):
> >   PCI: pnv_php: Properly clean up allocated IRQs on unplug
> >   PCI: pnv_php: Work around switches with broken presence detection
> > 
> > Timothy Pearson (4):
> >   powerpc/eeh: Export eeh_unfreeze_pe()
> >   powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe
> >   PCI: pnv_php: Fix surprise plug detection and recovery
> >   PCI: pnv_php: Enable third attention indicator state
> > 
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c         |   1 +
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c  |  48 ++++--
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_pe.c      |  10 +-
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-hotplug.c |   3 +
> >  drivers/pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c     | 244 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  5 files changed, 263 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
> I'm OK with this from a PCI perspective, and I optimistically put it
> on pci/hotplug.
> 
> I'm happy to merge via the PCI tree, but would need acks from the
> powerpc folks for the arch/powerpc parts.
> 
> Alternatively it could be merged via powerpc with my ack on the
> drivers/pci patches:
> 
> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> 
> If you do merge via powerpc, I made some comment formatting and commit
> log tweaks that I would like reflected in the drivers/pci part.  These
> are on
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci.git/log/?h=hotplug

Powerpc folks: let me know how you want to handle this.  I haven't
included it in pci/next yet because I don't have acks for the
arch/powerpc parts.

Bjorn


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