Re: PCIe regression on APM Merlin (aarch64 dev platform) preventing NVME initialization

Re: PCIe regression on APM Merlin (aarch64 dev platform) preventing NVME initialization

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker speaking.

CC in the regressions list.

On 18.11.21 19:10, Stéphane Graber wrote:
>
> I've recently been given access to a set of 4 APM X-Gene2 Merlin
> boards (old-ish development platform).
> Running them on Ubuntu 20.04's stock 5.4 kernel worked fine but trying
> to run anything else would fail to boot due to a NVME initialization
> timeout preventing the main drive from showing up at all.
> 
> Tracking this issue, I first moved to clean mainline kernels and then
> isolated the issue to be somewhere between 5.4.0 and 5.5.0-rc1, which
> sadly meant the merge window (so much for a quick bisect...). I've
> then bisected between those two points and came up with:
> 
>   6dce5aa59e0bf2430733d7a8b11c205ec10f408e (refs/bisect/bad) PCI:
> xgene: Use inbound resources for setup

TWIMC: To be sure this issue doesn't fall through the cracks unnoticed,
I'm adding it to regzbot, my Linux kernel regression tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced 6dce5aa59e0bf2430733d7a8b11c205ec10f408e
#regzbot ignore-activity

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