Re: [PATCH v3 8/8] PCI/quirks: Avoid certain address on Genoa systems
From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Oct 14 2026 - 06:57:12 EST
On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 11:34:44AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 14-Oct-26 00:40, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc Hans, Kai-Heng, Andy, linux-acpi]
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 01:59:23PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> >> On 10/13/26 12:26, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 13 Oct 2026, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> >>>> On 10/13/26 12:00, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> >>>>> On 10/13/26 08:09, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> >>>>>> While testing the resource placement changes, tests hit a case where
> >>>>>> igb fails to probe when BAR 0 is placed at 0x9c000000:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 90000000-9cffffff : PCI Bus 0000:a0
> >>>>>> - 90000000-902fffff : PCI Bus 0000:a1
> >>>>>> - 90000000-900fffff : 0000:a1:00.0
> >>>>>> - 90000000-900fffff : igb
> >>>>>> - 90100000-901fffff : 0000:a1:00.0
> >>>>>> - 90200000-90203fff : 0000:a1:00.0
> >>>>>> - 90200000-90203fff : igb
> >>>>>> + 9be00000-9c0fffff : PCI Bus 0000:a1
> >>>>>> + 9be00000-9befffff : 0000:a1:00.0
> >>>>>> + 9bf00000-9bf03fff : 0000:a1:00.0
> >>>>>> + 9c000000-9c0fffff : 0000:a1:00.0
> >>>>>> 9c100000-9c17ffff : amd_iommu
> >>>>>> 9c180000-9c1803ff : IOAPIC 8
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Region 0: Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> >>>>>> [size=1M]
> >>>>>> - Region 3: Memory at 90200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> >>>>>> [size=16K]
> >>>>>> - Expansion ROM at 90100000 [disabled] [size=1M]
> >>>>>> + Region 0: Memory at 9c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> >>>>>> [size=1M]
> >>>>>> + Region 3: Memory at 9bf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> >>>>>> [size=16K]
> >>>>>> + Expansion ROM at 9be00000 [disabled] [size=1M]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> igb 0000:a1:00.0 0000:a1:00.0 (uninitialized): PCIe link lost
> >>>>>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >>>>>> igb: Failed to read reg 0x18!
> >>>>>> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c:724 at
> >>>>>> igb_rd32.cold+0x3c/0x4f [igb], CPU#32: kworker/32:1/706
> >>>>>> ...
> >>>>>> igb_get_invariants_82575+0xff/0xf00 [igb]
> >>>>>> igb_probe+0x3c8/0x1190 [igb]
> >>>>>> local_pci_probe+0x3b/0x80
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It turns out there is a 64kB iomem black hole at 9c000000 that returns
> >>>>>> ~0 and this is where igb's BAR 0 resides. If another BAR of the same
> >>>>>> card is placed into that address, it is similarly black holed.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Mark the problematic 64kB range reserved using a quirk bound to the
> >>>>>> bridge found in the problematic system.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222074
> >>>>>> Suggested-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As an alternative to this, I've also tested reverting the commit
> >>>>>> 07eab0901ede ("efi/x86: Remove EfiMemoryMappedIO from E820 map") and
> >>>>>> that also resolves the issue by retaining "9c000000-9cffffff : Reserved"
> >>>>>> entry in the resource tree.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>> arch/x86/pci/fixup.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>>> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/fixup.c b/arch/x86/pci/fixup.c
> >>>>>> index b301c6c8df75..cc463bf492b6 100644
> >>>>>> --- a/arch/x86/pci/fixup.c
> >>>>>> +++ b/arch/x86/pci/fixup.c
> >>>>>> @@ -822,6 +822,42 @@ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_RESUME(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, 0x1571,
> >>>>>> pci_amd_enable_64bit_bar);
> >>>>>> DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_RESUME(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, 0x15b1,
> >>>>>> pci_amd_enable_64bit_bar);
> >>>>>> DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_RESUME(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, 0x1601,
> >>>>>> pci_amd_enable_64bit_bar);
> >>>>>> +/*
> >>>>>> + * TODO: Remove when/if root cause is found.
> >>>>>> + *
> >>>>>> + * Genoa appears to have a 64kB iomem black hole starting at 0x9c000000
> >>>>>> + * address for which all reads return ~0 blocking an overlapping BAR from
> >>>>>> + * working.
> >>>>>> + *
> >>>>>> + * Work around the problem by reserving the space prior to making any
> >>>>>> iomem
> >>>>>> + * allocations that could overlap with the black hole.
> >>>>>> + */
> >>>>>> +static struct resource genoa_black_hole =
> >>>>>> DEFINE_RES_MEM_NAMED(0x9c000000,
> >>>>>> + SZ_64K,
> >>>>>> + "reserved");
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> +static void genoa_iomem_black_hole(struct pci_dev *dev)
> >>>>>> +{
> >>>>>> + struct resource *r;
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> + pci_bus_for_each_resource(dev->bus, r) {
> >>>>>> + if (!r || !r->flags || !resource_assigned(r))
> >>>>>> + continue;
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> + if (!__resource_contains_unbound(r, &genoa_black_hole))
> >>>>>> + continue;
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> + if (resource_assigned(&genoa_black_hole))
> >>>>>> + pci_dbg(dev, "iomem black hole workaround already
> >>>>>> applied\n");
> >>>>>> + else if (!insert_resource(r, &genoa_black_hole))
> >>>>>> + pci_info(dev, "iomem black hole workaround enabled\n");
> >>>>>> + else
> >>>>>> + pci_dbg(dev, "iomem black hole workaround add failed\n");
> >>>>>> + return;
> >>>>>> + }
> >>>>>> +}
> >>>>>> +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, 0x14ab,
> >>>>>> genoa_iomem_black_hole);
> >>>>>> +
> >>>>>> #define RS690_LOWER_TOP_OF_DRAM2 0x30
> >>>>>> #define RS690_LOWER_TOP_OF_DRAM2_VALID 0x1
> >>>>>> #define RS690_UPPER_TOP_OF_DRAM2 0x31
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I guess it's good we know the root cause is 07eab0901ede. If we're going
> >>>>> down the path of making holes in that we may well put the hole in
> >>>>> efi_remove_e820_mmio() like this (attached).
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't really like that though. If Genoa is affected I would expect plenty
> >>>> of other machines are too they just haven't been found yet.
> >>>
> >>> That's what I'm worried as well. My own testing can only cover very little
> >>> ground here.
> >>>
> >>>> Can we roll back 07eab0901ede and add quirks for the busted machines instead?
> >>
> >> I had an agent dig through all the reports linked in 07eab0901ede and
> >> drafted up what should be the remaining quirks for a revert.
> >>
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux.git/log/?h=superm1/genoa-mess
> >>
> >> Bjorn, thoughts on this? I'll send it out if that's the way we want
> >> to go (or Ilpo feel free to subsume into your series as it's only
> >> really exposed by your series at the moment)
> >
> > I would LOVE it if we can use those patches because it's way less
> > magic than 07eab0901ede is.
> >
> > But I'm frankly terrified to touch it because I'm skeptical that two
> > more quirks are enough. I just expect that whatever strategy BIOS
> > uses to build these maps is likely to be used on many models. I do
> > hate 07eab0901ede though, so I would love to see it gone.
>
> It has been about 4 years since we came up with 07eab0901ede IIRC we
> had a huge email thread with a whole bunch of attempts at fixing
> the issue in a generic manner.
>
> IIRC some of those attempts tried to identify the exact problematic
> issue the quirks try to fix where there is an EFI MMIO reservation
> covering the entire bridge window.
>
> Maybe we can dig through the old thread and see if with the knowledge
> we have now one of the previous attempts of fixing it from the thread
> is better?
>
> I agree that needing to go back to quirks is likely going to be painful
> and break a whole bunch of other systems. IIRC 07eab0901ede fixed
> a whole bunch of laptops having issues around the time not just
> the Clevo NL4XLU and Lenovo Yoga C940. But this info might be spread
> over various bugzilla entries, etc. + some models where likely never
> reported but just fixed in time for users to not report things.
>
> I also wonder if given we only have this magic black-hole on geneo/zen4
> if it would not be better to go with Mario's original approach here ?
> Esp. since Mario's quirk is chipset based where as the other problems
> seem to be model/product based so that is 1 quirk vs many quirks.
Can we simply change the algo of allocating resources to follow what Windows
does?
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko