Re: [PATCH] PCI: Mark Nvidia GB10 to avoid bus reset

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

[+cc Jason, Alex for Nvidia input]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 06:39:24AM +0000, Johnny-CC Chang (張晋嘉) wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-11-18 at 17:39 +0800, Johnny-CC Chang wrote:
> > On Thu, 2025-11-13 at 10:39 +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 04:44:06PM +0800, Johnny Chang wrote:
> > > > Nvidia GB10 PCIe hosts will encounter problem occasionally
> > > > after SBR(secondary bus reset) is applied.
> > > 
> > > Could you elaborate what kinds of problems occur, how often they
> > > occur, etc?
> > 
> > There is about 1/1000 chance that after SBR is applied, any further
> > access via this root port will be blocked and make system crash. 

What sort of crash happens?  It's useful if we can include a bread
crumb that will help people identify the crash and find a fix.

What I would expect is some kind of PCIe error like a config read
timeout or unsupport request error.  But usually those just result in
~0 data back to the CPU, which usually doesn't directly cause a crash.

> I would like to update below description to replace original comment in
> v1 patch, is this information sufficient? 
> --------
> /*
>  * After SBR(secondary bus reset) is applied on an Nvidia GB10
>  * PCIe root port, there is 1/1000 chance that further requests
>  * via this root port will be blocked and cause system unstable.

I'm confused about what the topology is.  I first assumed GB10 was a
PCIe Endpoint, since Secondary Bus Reset only applies to devices below
a bridge, so SBR would be applied to a device by a config write to
that bridge.

But you mention a GB10 Root Port here, which obviously is not an
Endpoint, so there's no bridge upstream from the GB10 that could
initiate SBR to the GB10.

If this is actually a GB10 issue, it sounds like a hardware erratum
that lots of users would see and Nvidia would likely be aware of. 

Bjorn