On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2024, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 01:27:10PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > > > On runtime resume, pci_dev_wait() is called: > > > pci_pm_runtime_resume() > > > pci_pm_bridge_power_up_actions() > > > pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() > > > pci_dev_wait() > > > > > > While a device is runtime suspended along with its PCIe hierarchy, the > > > device could get disconnected. In such case, the link will not come up > > > no matter how log pci_dev_wait() waits for it. > > > > s/PCIe/PCI/ (unless this is a PCIe-specific thing) > > s/log/long/ > > > > > Besides the above mentioned case, there could be other ways to get the > > > device disconnected while pci_dev_wait() is waiting for the link to > > > come up. > > > > > > Make pci_dev_wait() to exit if the device is already disconnected to > > > avoid unnecessary delay. As disconnected device is not really even a > > > failure in the same sense as link failing to come up for whatever > > > reason, return 0 instead of errno. > > > > The device being disconnected is not the same as a link failure. > > This we agree and it's what I tried to write above. > > > Do > > all the callers do the right thing if pci_dev_wait() returns success > > when there's no device there? > > It's a bit complicated. I honestly don't know what is the best approach > here so I'm very much open to your suggestion what would be preferrable. > > There are two main use cases (more than two callers but they seem boil > down to two use cases). > > One use case is reset related functions and those would probably prefer to > have error returned if the wait, and thus reset, failed. > > Then the another is wait for buses, that is, > pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() which return 0 if there's no device > (wait successful). For it, it would make sense to return 0 also when > device is disconnected because it seems analoguous to the case where > there's no device in the first place. > > Perhaps it would be better to return -ENOTTY from pci_dev_wait() and check > for that disconnected condition inside > pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus()? To further complicate things, > however, DPC also depends on the return value of > pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() and from its perspective, returning > error when there is a device that is disconnected might be the desirable > alternative (but I'm not fully sure how everything in DPC works but I > highly suspect I'm correct here). Just to note here I intend to reverse the return to -ENOTTY in v2. It is easier and doing anything more complicated than that felt over-engineering because it would have just avoided marking same disconnected devices disconnected for another time which is harmless. -- i.