Re: [PATCH net-next 6/6] mlxsw: pci: Add support for new reset flow

Ido Schimmel
2023-03-30T08:26:44Z

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 11:10:01AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I think we don't have it because it's unclear how it's actually
> different from a secondary bus reset from the bridge control register,
> which is what "bus" would do when selected for the example above. Per
> the spec, both must cause a hot reset. It seems this device needs a
> significantly longer delay though.

Assuming you are referring to the 2ms sleep in
pci_reset_secondary_bus(), then yes. In our case, after disabling the
link on the downstream port we need to wait for 500ms before enabling
it.

> Note that hot resets can be generated by a userspace driver with
> ownership of the device and will make use of the pci-core reset
> mechanisms. Therefore if there is not a device specific reset, we'll
> use the standard delays and the device ought not to get itself wedged
> if the link becomes active at an unexpected point relative to a
> firmware update. This might be a point in favor of a device specific
> reset solution in pci-core. Thanks,

I assume you referring to something like this:

# echo 1 > /sys/class/pci_bus/0000:03/device/0000:03:00.0/reset

Doesn't seem to have any effect (network ports remain up, at least).
Anyway, this device is completely managed by the kernel, not a user
space driver. I'm not aware of anyone using this method to reset the
device.

If I understand Bjorn and you correctly, we have two options:

1. Keep the current implementation inside the driver.

2. Call __pci_reset_function_locked() from the driver and move the link
toggling to drivers/pci/quirks.c as a "device_specific" method.

Personally, I don't see any benefit in 2, but we can try to implement
it, see if it even works and then decide.

Please let me know what are your preferences.

Thanks