[PATCH 0/4] Don't make noise about disconnected USB4 devices

[PATCH 0/4] Don't make noise about disconnected USB4 devices

[Mario Limonciello]

From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

When a USB4 or TBT3 dock is disconnected a lot of warnings and errors
are emitted related to the PCIe tunnels and XHCI controllers in th
dock.

The messages are loud, but it's mostly because the functions that
emit the messages don't check whether the device is actually alive.
The PCIe hotplug services mark the device as perm dead, so that
can be used to hide some of the messsages.

In the XHCI driver the device is marked as dying already, so that
can also be used to hide messages.

Mario Limonciello (4):
  PCI: Don't show errors on inaccessible PCI devices
  PCI: Fix runtime PM usage count underflow
  usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal
  usb: xhci: Avoid showing warnings for dying controller

 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c     | 3 ++-
 drivers/pci/pci.c            | 5 +++--
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 7 +++++--
 drivers/usb/host/xhci.c      | 6 ++++--
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

-- 
2.43.0

[PATCH 1/4] PCI: Don't show errors on inaccessible PCI devices

[Mario Limonciello]

From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

When a USB4 dock is unplugged the PCIe bridge it's connected to will
remove issue a "Link Down" and "Card not detected event". The PCI core
will treat this as a surprise hotplug event and unconfigure all downstream
devices. This involves setting the device error state to
`pci_channel_io_perm_failure`.

As the device is already gone and the PCI core is cleaning up there isn't
really any reason to show error messages to the user about failing to
change power states. Detect the error state and skip the messaging.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
---
 drivers/pci/pci.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
index e9448d55113bd..7b0b4087da4d3 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
@@ -1376,8 +1376,9 @@ int pci_power_up(struct pci_dev *dev)
 
 	pci_read_config_word(dev, dev->pm_cap + PCI_PM_CTRL, &pmcsr);
 	if (PCI_POSSIBLE_ERROR(pmcsr)) {
-		pci_err(dev, "Unable to change power state from %s to D0, device inaccessible\n",
-			pci_power_name(dev->current_state));
+		if (dev->error_state != pci_channel_io_perm_failure)
+			pci_err(dev, "Unable to change power state from %s to D0, device inaccessible\n",
+				pci_power_name(dev->current_state));
 		dev->current_state = PCI_D3cold;
 		return -EIO;
 	}
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH 1/4] PCI: Don't show errors on inaccessible PCI devices

[Lukas Wunner]

[cc += Rafael, Mika]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 08:58:01PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -1376,8 +1376,9 @@ int pci_power_up(struct pci_dev *dev)
>  
>  	pci_read_config_word(dev, dev->pm_cap + PCI_PM_CTRL, &pmcsr);
>  	if (PCI_POSSIBLE_ERROR(pmcsr)) {
> -		pci_err(dev, "Unable to change power state from %s to D0, device inaccessible\n",
> -			pci_power_name(dev->current_state));
> +		if (dev->error_state != pci_channel_io_perm_failure)
> +			pci_err(dev, "Unable to change power state from %s to D0, device inaccessible\n",
> +				pci_power_name(dev->current_state));
>  		dev->current_state = PCI_D3cold;
>  		return -EIO;
>  	}

Instead of merely silencing the error message, why not bail out early on
in the function, i.e.

	if (pci_dev_is_disconnected(dev)) {
		dev->current_state = PCI_D3cold;
		return -EIO;
	}

Thanks,

Lukas

Re: [PATCH 1/4] PCI: Don't show errors on inaccessible PCI devices

[Mario Limonciello]

On 6/9/2025 10:09 AM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> [cc += Rafael, Mika]
> 
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 08:58:01PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> @@ -1376,8 +1376,9 @@ int pci_power_up(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>   
>>   	pci_read_config_word(dev, dev->pm_cap + PCI_PM_CTRL, &pmcsr);
>>   	if (PCI_POSSIBLE_ERROR(pmcsr)) {
>> -		pci_err(dev, "Unable to change power state from %s to D0, device inaccessible\n",
>> -			pci_power_name(dev->current_state));
>> +		if (dev->error_state != pci_channel_io_perm_failure)
>> +			pci_err(dev, "Unable to change power state from %s to D0, device inaccessible\n",
>> +				pci_power_name(dev->current_state));
>>   		dev->current_state = PCI_D3cold;
>>   		return -EIO;
>>   	}
> 
> Instead of merely silencing the error message, why not bail out early on
> in the function, i.e.
> 
> 	if (pci_dev_is_disconnected(dev)) {
> 		dev->current_state = PCI_D3cold;
> 		return -EIO;
> 	}
> 

Thanks for the suggestion.  That sounds good to me, I'll have a try.

[PATCH 2/4] PCI: Fix runtime PM usage count underflow

[Mario Limonciello]

From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

When a USB4 dock is unplugged the PCIe bridge it's connected to will
remove issue a "Link Down" and "Card not detected event". The PCI core
will treat this as a surprise hotplug event and unconfigure all downstream
devices. This involves setting the device error state to
`pci_channel_io_perm_failure`.

When PCI core gets to the point that the device is removed using
pci_device_remove() the runtime count has already been decremented and
so calling pm_runtime_put_sync() will cause an underflow.

Detect the device is in the error state and skip the call for this cleanup
path.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
---
 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
index 9f6e145d93d62..ab4cfdfc8fbc0 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
@@ -479,7 +479,8 @@ static void pci_device_remove(struct device *dev)
 	pci_iov_remove(pci_dev);
 
 	/* Undo the runtime PM settings in local_pci_probe() */
-	pm_runtime_put_sync(dev);
+	if (pci_dev->error_state != pci_channel_io_perm_failure)
+		pm_runtime_put_sync(dev);
 
 	/*
 	 * If the device is still on, set the power state as "unknown",
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH 2/4] PCI: Fix runtime PM usage count underflow

[Lukas Wunner]

[cc += Rafael, Mika]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 08:58:02PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
> 
> When a USB4 dock is unplugged the PCIe bridge it's connected to will
> remove issue a "Link Down" and "Card not detected event". The PCI core

Nit: s/remove//

> will treat this as a surprise hotplug event and unconfigure all downstream
> devices. This involves setting the device error state to
> `pci_channel_io_perm_failure`.
> 
> When PCI core gets to the point that the device is removed using
> pci_device_remove() the runtime count has already been decremented and
> so calling pm_runtime_put_sync() will cause an underflow.

Where has it been decremented?  I think this needs to be identified
and a Fixes tag added.

> --- a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
> @@ -479,7 +479,8 @@ static void pci_device_remove(struct device *dev)
>  	pci_iov_remove(pci_dev);
>  
>  	/* Undo the runtime PM settings in local_pci_probe() */
> -	pm_runtime_put_sync(dev);
> +	if (pci_dev->error_state != pci_channel_io_perm_failure)
> +		pm_runtime_put_sync(dev);

Usually pci_dev_is_disconnected() is used in lieu of checking for
the error_state directly.

Thanks,

Lukas

[PATCH 3/4] usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal

[Mario Limonciello]

From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

When a USB4 dock is unplugged from a system it won't respond to ring
events. The PCI core handles the surprise removal event and notifies
all PCI drivers. The XHCI PCI driver sets a flag that the device is
being removed as well.

When that flag is set don't show messages in the cleanup path for
marking the controller dead.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
index e038ad3375dc9..997628f8d06e5 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
@@ -1377,12 +1377,15 @@ static void xhci_kill_endpoint_urbs(struct xhci_hcd *xhci,
  */
 void xhci_hc_died(struct xhci_hcd *xhci)
 {
+	bool notify;
 	int i, j;
 
 	if (xhci->xhc_state & XHCI_STATE_DYING)
 		return;
 
-	xhci_err(xhci, "xHCI host controller not responding, assume dead\n");
+	notify = !(xhci->xhc_state & XHCI_STATE_REMOVING);
+	if (notify)
+		xhci_err(xhci, "xHCI host controller not responding, assume dead\n");
 	xhci->xhc_state |= XHCI_STATE_DYING;
 
 	xhci_cleanup_command_queue(xhci);
@@ -1396,7 +1399,7 @@ void xhci_hc_died(struct xhci_hcd *xhci)
 	}
 
 	/* inform usb core hc died if PCI remove isn't already handling it */
-	if (!(xhci->xhc_state & XHCI_STATE_REMOVING))
+	if (notify)
 		usb_hc_died(xhci_to_hcd(xhci));
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal

[Mathias Nyman]

On 9.6.2025 4.58, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
> 
> When a USB4 dock is unplugged from a system it won't respond to ring
> events. The PCI core handles the surprise removal event and notifies
> all PCI drivers. The XHCI PCI driver sets a flag that the device is
> being removed as well.
> 
> When that flag is set don't show messages in the cleanup path for
> marking the controller dead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

Acked-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>

Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal

[Mario Limonciello]

On 6/9/2025 7:42 AM, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> On 9.6.2025 4.58, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
>>
>> When a USB4 dock is unplugged from a system it won't respond to ring
>> events. The PCI core handles the surprise removal event and notifies
>> all PCI drivers. The XHCI PCI driver sets a flag that the device is
>> being removed as well.
>>
>> When that flag is set don't show messages in the cleanup path for
>> marking the controller dead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
> 

Thanks for the acks Mathias!

All 4 patches were sent together because of the relation but they really 
don't have a dependency to need to be committed together.

Would you mind picking up the patches for 3 and 4 to USB tree and I'll 
keep discussing 1 and 2 with linux-pci M/L.

Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal

[Mathias Nyman]

On 9.6.2025 16.07, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 6/9/2025 7:42 AM, Mathias Nyman wrote:
>> On 9.6.2025 4.58, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>>> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
>>>
>>> When a USB4 dock is unplugged from a system it won't respond to ring
>>> events. The PCI core handles the surprise removal event and notifies
>>> all PCI drivers. The XHCI PCI driver sets a flag that the device is
>>> being removed as well.
>>>
>>> When that flag is set don't show messages in the cleanup path for
>>> marking the controller dead.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
>>
> 
> Thanks for the acks Mathias!
> 
> All 4 patches were sent together because of the relation but they really don't have a dependency to need to be committed together.
> 
> Would you mind picking up the patches for 3 and 4 to USB tree and I'll keep discussing 1 and 2 with linux-pci M/L.

I can do that yes.
Added patches 3/4 and 4/4 to my for-usb-next branch

Thanks
Mathias

[PATCH 4/4] usb: xhci: Avoid showing warnings for dying controller

[Mario Limonciello]

From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

When a USB4 dock is unplugged from a system it won't respond to ring
events. The PCI core handles the surprise removal event and notifies
all PCI drivers. The XHCI PCI driver sets a flag that the device is
being removed, and when the device stops responding a flag is also
added to indicate it's dying.

When that flag is set don't bother to show warnings about a missing
controller.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
index 4e6dbd2375c3f..86d4bcc5faaf0 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
@@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ int xhci_halt(struct xhci_hcd *xhci)
 	ret = xhci_handshake(&xhci->op_regs->status,
 			STS_HALT, STS_HALT, XHCI_MAX_HALT_USEC);
 	if (ret) {
-		xhci_warn(xhci, "Host halt failed, %d\n", ret);
+		if (!(xhci->xhc_state & XHCI_STATE_DYING))
+			xhci_warn(xhci, "Host halt failed, %d\n", ret);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
@@ -203,7 +204,8 @@ int xhci_reset(struct xhci_hcd *xhci, u64 timeout_us)
 	state = readl(&xhci->op_regs->status);
 
 	if (state == ~(u32)0) {
-		xhci_warn(xhci, "Host not accessible, reset failed.\n");
+		if (!(xhci->xhc_state & XHCI_STATE_DYING))
+			xhci_warn(xhci, "Host not accessible, reset failed.\n");
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH 4/4] usb: xhci: Avoid showing warnings for dying controller

[Mathias Nyman]

On 9.6.2025 4.58, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
> 
> When a USB4 dock is unplugged from a system it won't respond to ring
> events. The PCI core handles the surprise removal event and notifies
> all PCI drivers. The XHCI PCI driver sets a flag that the device is
> being removed, and when the device stops responding a flag is also
> added to indicate it's dying.
> 
> When that flag is set don't bother to show warnings about a missing
> controller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

Acked-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Don't make noise about disconnected USB4 devices

[Michał Pecio]

Hi,

General remarks:
- broken threading on 1/2 and 2/2
- some Cc missing on individual patch emails

On Sun,  8 Jun 2025 20:58:00 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> When a USB4 or TBT3 dock is disconnected a lot of warnings and errors
> are emitted related to the PCIe tunnels and XHCI controllers in th
> dock.

These patches will probably also trigger on any loss of PCIe link for
any reason: badly seated card, worn connector, EMI, etc.

Will there be any remaining message about dead PCIe links, or just
a silent disappearence? Like dev_info("USB disconnect ...") in USB.

> The messages are loud, but it's mostly because the functions that
> emit the messages don't check whether the device is actually alive.
> The PCIe hotplug services mark the device as perm dead, so that
> can be used to hide some of the messsages.
> 
> In the XHCI driver the device is marked as dying already, so that
> can also be used to hide messages.

Are PCI drivers expected to stay silent on sudden removal mid operation?
Is there no "safe ejection" procedure for those Thunderbolt devices?

> Mario Limonciello (4):
>   PCI: Don't show errors on inaccessible PCI devices
>   PCI: Fix runtime PM usage count underflow
>   usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal
>   usb: xhci: Avoid showing warnings for dying controller

Regards,
Michal

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Don't make noise about disconnected USB4 devices

[Mario Limonciello]

On 6/9/2025 4:19 AM, Michał Pecio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> General remarks:
> - broken threading on 1/2 and 2/2
> - some Cc missing on individual patch emails

Yeah; sorry about that.  I got bit by 
https://github.com/kworkflow/kworkflow/issues/1207 once again.  Once I 
realized that happened I figured unthreaded was better than missing so I 
ended off sending the missing ones to each of the lists that missed them.

If I send a v2 with them together again I'll just manually do to/cc for 
everything.

> 
> On Sun,  8 Jun 2025 20:58:00 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> When a USB4 or TBT3 dock is disconnected a lot of warnings and errors
>> are emitted related to the PCIe tunnels and XHCI controllers in th
>> dock.
> 
> These patches will probably also trigger on any loss of PCIe link for
> any reason: badly seated card, worn connector, EMI, etc.
> 
> Will there be any remaining message about dead PCIe links, or just
> a silent disappearence? Like dev_info("USB disconnect ...") in USB.
> 

Good point on the PCIe patches with other failures.  Those wouldn't have 
any "hotplug event" though would they?  This all stems from the hotplug 
event, so would it be worth storing the state on the struct pci_dev to 
conditionally show these PCIe messages?

>> The messages are loud, but it's mostly because the functions that
>> emit the messages don't check whether the device is actually alive.
>> The PCIe hotplug services mark the device as perm dead, so that
>> can be used to hide some of the messsages.
>>
>> In the XHCI driver the device is marked as dying already, so that
>> can also be used to hide messages.
> 
> Are PCI drivers expected to stay silent on sudden removal mid operation?
> Is there no "safe ejection" procedure for those Thunderbolt devices?
> 

With docking surprise hot removal is a standard operation.
Userspace doesn't offer anything for a clean removal event of PCIe like 
USB storage does.

>> Mario Limonciello (4):
>>    PCI: Don't show errors on inaccessible PCI devices
>>    PCI: Fix runtime PM usage count underflow
>>    usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal
>>    usb: xhci: Avoid showing warnings for dying controller
> 
> Regards,
> Michal

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Don't make noise about disconnected USB4 devices

[Lukas Wunner]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 08:58:00PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Mario Limonciello (4):
>   PCI: Don't show errors on inaccessible PCI devices
>   PCI: Fix runtime PM usage count underflow
>   usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal
>   usb: xhci: Avoid showing warnings for dying controller

Patches [3/4] and [4/4] (which touch xhci) were only cc'ed to Bjorn.
You may want to resend these two to Mathias and Greg.
You might also want to split the series in two separate ones
for PCI and xhci if/when respinning.

Thanks,

Lukas

[PATCH 3/4] usb: xhci: Avoid showing errors during surprise removal

[Mario Limonciello]

From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

When a USB4 dock is unplugged from a system it won't respond to ring
events. The PCI core handles the surprise removal event and notifies
all PCI drivers. The XHCI PCI driver sets a flag that the device is
being removed as well.

When that flag is set don't show messages in the cleanup path for
marking the controller dead.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
index e038ad3375dc9..997628f8d06e5 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c
@@ -1377,12 +1377,15 @@ static void xhci_kill_endpoint_urbs(struct xhci_hcd *xhci,
  */
 void xhci_hc_died(struct xhci_hcd *xhci)
 {
+	bool notify;
 	int i, j;
 
 	if (xhci->xhc_state & XHCI_STATE_DYING)
 		return;
 
-	xhci_err(xhci, "xHCI host controller not responding, assume dead\n");
+	notify = !(xhci->xhc_state & XHCI_STATE_REMOVING);
+	if (notify)
+		xhci_err(xhci, "xHCI host controller not responding, assume dead\n");
 	xhci->xhc_state |= XHCI_STATE_DYING;
 
 	xhci_cleanup_command_queue(xhci);
@@ -1396,7 +1399,7 @@ void xhci_hc_died(struct xhci_hcd *xhci)
 	}
 
 	/* inform usb core hc died if PCI remove isn't already handling it */
-	if (!(xhci->xhc_state & XHCI_STATE_REMOVING))
+	if (notify)
 		usb_hc_died(xhci_to_hcd(xhci));
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0