From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
To: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com, wei.liu@kernel.org,
decui@microsoft.com, longli@microsoft.com, lpieralisi@kernel.org,
kwilczynski@kernel.org, mani@kernel.org, robh@kernel.org,
bhelgaas@google.com, jakeo@microsoft.com,
linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mhklinux@outlook.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] PCI: hv: Allocate MMIO from above 4GB for the config window
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:03:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260122020337.94967-1-decui@microsoft.com> (raw)
There has been a longstanding MMIO conflict between the pci_hyperv
driver's config_window (see hv_allocate_config_window()) and the
hyperv_drm (or hyperv_fb) driver (see hyperv_setup_vram()): typically
both get MMIO from the low MMIO range below 4GB; this is not an issue
in the normal kernel since the VMBus driver reserves the framebuffer
MMIO in vmbus_reserve_fb(), so the drm driver's hyperv_setup_vram() can
always get the reserved framebuffer MMIO; however, a Gen2 VM's kdump
kernel fails to reserve the framebuffer MMIO in vmbus_reserve_fb() because
the screen_info.lfb_base is zero in the kdump kernel: the screen_info
is not initialized at all in the kdump kernel, because the EFI stub
code, which initializes screen_info, doesn't run in the case of kdump.
When vmbus_reserve_fb() fails to reserve the framebuffer MMIO in the
kdump kernel, if pci_hyperv in the kdump kernel loads before hyperv_drm
loads, pci_hyperv's vmbus_allocate_mmio() gets the framebuffer MMIO
and tries to use it, but since the host thinks that the MMIO range is
still in use by hyperv_drm, the host refuses to accept the MMIO range
as the config window, and pci_hyperv's hv_pci_enter_d0() errors out:
"PCI Pass-through VSP failed D0 Entry with status c0370048".
This PCI error in the kdump kernel was not fatal in the past because
the kdump kernel normally doesn't reply on pci_hyperv, and the root
file system is on a VMBus SCSI device.
Now, a VM on Azure can boot from NVMe, i.e. the root FS can be on a
NVMe device, which depends on pci_hyperv. When the PCI error occurs,
the kdump kernel fails to boot up since no root FS is detected.
Fix the MMIO conflict by allocating MMIO above 4GB for the
config_window.
Note: we still need to figure out how to address the possible MMIO
conflict between hyperv_drm and pci_hyperv in the case of 32-bit PCI
MMIO BARs, but that's of low priority because all PCI devices available
to a Linux VM on Azure should use 64-bit BARs and should not use 32-bit
BARs -- I checked Mellanox VFs, MANA VFs, NVMe devices, and GPUs in
Linux VMs on Azure, and found no 32-bit BARs.
Fixes: 4daace0d8ce8 ("PCI: hv: Add paravirtual PCI front-end for Microsoft Hyper-V VMs")
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
index 1e237d3538f9..a6aecb1b5cab 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
@@ -3406,9 +3406,13 @@ static int hv_allocate_config_window(struct hv_pcibus_device *hbus)
/*
* Set up a region of MMIO space to use for accessing configuration
- * space.
+ * space. Use the high MMIO range to not conflict with the hyperv_drm
+ * driver (which normally gets MMIO from the low MMIO range) in the
+ * kdump kernel of a Gen2 VM, which fails to reserve the framebuffer
+ * MMIO range in vmbus_reserve_fb() due to screen_info.lfb_base being
+ * zero in the kdump kernel.
*/
- ret = vmbus_allocate_mmio(&hbus->mem_config, hbus->hdev, 0, -1,
+ ret = vmbus_allocate_mmio(&hbus->mem_config, hbus->hdev, SZ_4G, -1,
PCI_CONFIG_MMIO_LENGTH, 0x1000, false);
if (ret)
return ret;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-22 2:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-22 2:03 Dexuan Cui [this message]
2026-01-22 7:10 ` [PATCH] PCI: hv: Allocate MMIO from above 4GB for the config window Michael Kelley
2026-01-22 19:14 ` Long Li
2026-01-22 20:22 ` Michael Kelley
2026-01-23 5:39 ` Matthew Ruffell
2026-01-23 6:39 ` Michael Kelley
2026-01-23 18:28 ` Michael Kelley
2026-01-23 20:21 ` Dexuan Cui
2026-02-07 1:42 ` Krister Johansen
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