Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: Run platform power transition on initial D0 entry
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-03-16 13:37:41
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 7:28 PM Maximilian Luz [off-list ref] wrote:
On 3/15/21 4:34 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:quoted
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 1:06 AM Maximilian Luz [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On some devices and platforms, the initial platform (e.g. ACPI) power state is not in sync with the power state of the PCI device. This seems like it is, for all intents and purposes, an issue with the device firmware (e.g. ACPI). On some devices, specifically Microsoft Surface Books 2 and 3, we encounter ACPI code akin to the following power resource, corresponding to a PCI device: PowerResource (PRP5, 0x00, 0x0000) { // Initialized to zero, i.e. off. There is no logic for checking // the actual state dynamically. Name (_STA, Zero) Method (_ON, 0, Serialized) { // ... code omitted ... _STA = One } Method (_OFF, 0, Serialized) { // ... code omitted ... _STA = Zero } } This resource is initialized to 'off' and does not have any logic for checking its actual state, i.e. the state of the corresponding PCI device. The stored state of this resource can only be changed by running the (platform/ACPI) power transition functions (i.e. _ON and _OFF).Well, there is _STA that returns "off" initially, so the OS should set the initial state of the device to D3cold and transition it into D0 as appropriate (i.e. starting with setting all of the power resources used by it to "on").quoted
This means that, at boot, the PCI device power state is out of sync with the power state of the corresponding ACPI resource. During initial bring-up of a PCI device, pci_enable_device_flags() updates its PCI core state (from initially 'unknown') by reading from its PCI_PM_CTRL register. It does, however, not check if the platform (here ACPI) state is in sync with/valid for the actual device state and needs updating.Well, that's inconsistent. Also, it is rather pointless to update the device's power state at this point, because nothing between this point and the later do_pci_enable_device() call in this function requires its current_state to be up to date AFAICS. Have you tried to drop the power state update from pci_enable_device_flags()? [Note that we're talking about relatively old code here and it looks like that code is not necessary any more.]I had not tried this before, as I assumed the comment was still relevant. I did test that now and it works! I can't detect any regressions. Do you want to send this in or should I do that?
I'll post it, thanks!