Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/PM: Avoid suspending the device with errors

[Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@intel.com>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 02:45:37PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 07:23:41PM +0530, Raag Jadav wrote:
> > If an error is triggered before or during system suspend, any bus level
> > power state transition will result in unpredictable behaviour by the
> > device with failed recovery. Avoid suspending such a device and leave
> > it in its existing power state.
> > 
> > This only covers the devices that rely on PCI core PM for their power
> > state transition.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@intel.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > v2: Synchronize AER handling with PCI PM (Rafael)
> > 
> > More discussion on [1].
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJZ5v0g-aJXfVH+Uc=9eRPuW08t-6PwzdyMXsC6FZRKYJtY03Q@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, but the commit log for this patch needs to be
> complete in itself.  "Unpredictable behavior" is kind of hand-wavy and
> doesn't really help understand the problem.
> 
> >  drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |  3 ++-
> >  drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c   | 11 +++++++++++
> >  include/linux/aer.h      |  2 ++
> >  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
> > index f57ea36d125d..289a1fa7cb2d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
> > @@ -884,7 +884,8 @@ static int pci_pm_suspend_noirq(struct device *dev)
> >  		}
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	if (!pci_dev->state_saved) {
> > +	/* Avoid suspending the device with errors */
> > +	if (!pci_aer_in_progress(pci_dev) && !pci_dev->state_saved) {
> 
> This looks potentially racy, since hardware can set bits in
> PCI_EXP_DEVSTA at any time.

Which is why it's placed in ->suspend_noirq() callback. Can it still race?

Raag