On Wed, Nov 06 2024 at 10:04, dullfire@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> 7d5ec3d36123 had the mask_all() invocation _before_ setting up the the >> entries and reading back the descriptors. So that commit cannot break >> the niu device when your problem analysis is correct. > > In 7d5ec3d36123 (and later) msix_mask_all() only writes to > PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL. I have tried all the MSIX registers, and only > writes to PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_DATA were able to prevent a fatal trap on a read. > However the only write to PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_DATA I see is in > __pci_write_msi_msg() for 7d5ec3d36123, or pci_write_msg_msix(), in 6.11.5. Yuck. They really went a great lenght to make this hard to handle. Something like the obviously uncompiled below should work. Thanks, tglx --- --- a/drivers/pci/msi/msi.c +++ b/drivers/pci/msi/msi.c @@ -611,6 +611,8 @@ void msix_prepare_msi_desc(struct pci_de if (desc->pci.msi_attrib.can_mask) { void __iomem *addr = pci_msix_desc_addr(desc); + if (dev->dev_flags & PCI_MSIX_TOUCH_ENTRY_DATA_FIRST) + writel(0x0, addr + PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_DATA); desc->pci.msix_ctrl = readl(addr + PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL); } }