linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.2.5

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Date:	Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:40:57 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>,
	Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@...d.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.2.5

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 08:29:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Resulting in a broken system - aspm on the device, but not the bridge
> leading up to it. Which I do not think is a correct situation.

Per spec, it's valid. If there's a bridge that can't deal with its 
downstreams having ASPM enabled when it has ASPM disabled then we 
probably need to quirk that specially.

> (It's also broken because it fundamentally makes the aspm disable be
> "per device", which seems totally wrong - aspm is a system issue, you
> can't just willy-nilly randomly enable it for one device without
> taking other devices into account).

It's at *least* a per-bus thing, not a per-system thing. And, by the 
spec, it's completely valid to have a different set of states configured 
on the bridge and any downstream devices.

> So I suspect the whole pcie_aspm_sanity_check() function should go away.

The sanity check is important because nobody tests ASPM with pre-1.1 
devices. However, in the aspm-is-disabled-by-FADT case, I can believe 
that we should skip it.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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