[PATCH] powerpc/pseries/msi: Avoid reading PCI device registers in reduced power states

Vaibhav Jain vaibhav at linux.ibm.com
Mon Mar 10 16:00:02 AEDT 2025


Gautam Menghani <gautam at linux.ibm.com> writes:

> When a system is being suspended to RAM, the PCI devices are also
> suspended and the PPC code ends up calling pseries_msi_compose_msg() and
> this triggers the BUG_ON() in __pci_read_msi_msg() because the device at
> this point is in reduced power state. In reduced power state, the memory
> mapped registers of the PCI device are not accessible.
>
> To replicate the bug:
> 1. Make sure deep sleep is selected
> 	# cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
> 	s2idle [deep]
>
> 2. Make sure console is not suspended (so that dmesg logs are visible)
> 	echo N > /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend
>
> 3. Suspend the system
> 	echo mem > /sys/power/state
>
> To fix this behaviour, read the cached msi message of the device when the
> device is not in PCI_D0 power state instead of touching the hardware.
>
> Fixes: a5f3d2c17b07 ("powerpc/pseries/pci: Add MSI domains")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v5.15+
> Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gautam at linux.ibm.com>
LGTM. Hence
Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.ibm.com>

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Cheers
~ Vaibhav


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