Re: regression on aarch64? panic on boot

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jan 17 2023 - 00:58:43 EST


On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 10:57:11PM +0100, Klaus Jensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting panics when booting from a QEMU hw/nvme device on an aarch64
> guest in roughly 20% of boots on v6.2-rc4. Example panic below.

This smells like your setup somehow doesn't wait for async driver
probe. Does the hack below work around it?

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index b13baccedb4a95..f47e19c701d520 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -3508,7 +3508,6 @@ static struct pci_driver nvme_driver = {
.remove = nvme_remove,
.shutdown = nvme_shutdown,
.driver = {
- .probe_type = PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS,
#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
.pm = &nvme_dev_pm_ops,
#endif