linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 02/12] PCI: aardvark: Don't blindly enable ASPM L0s and don't write to read-only register

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Message-Id: <20200430080625.26070-3-pali@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:06:15 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Andrew Murray <amurray@...goodpenguin.co.uk>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Remi Pommarel <repk@...plefau.lt>,
        Marek Behún <marek.behun@....cz>,
        Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505@...il.com>,
        Xogium <contact@...ium.me>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 02/12] PCI: aardvark: Don't blindly enable ASPM L0s and don't write to read-only register

Trying to change Link Status register does not have any effect as this
is a read-only register. Trying to overwrite bits for Negotiated Link
Width does not make sense.

In future proper change of link width can be done via Lane Count Select
bits in PCIe Control 0 register.

Trying to unconditionally enable ASPM L0s via ASPM Control bits in Link
Control register is wrong. There should be at least some detection if
endpoint supports L0s as isn't mandatory.

Moreover ASPM Control bits in Link Control register are controlled by
pcie/aspm.c code which sets it according to system ASPM settings,
immediately after aardvark driver probes. So setting these bits by
aardvark driver has no long running effect.

Remove code which touches ASPM L0s bits from this driver and let
kernel's ASPM implementation to set ASPM state properly.

Some users are reporting issues that this code is problematic for some
Intel wifi cards and removing it fixes them, see e.g.:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196339

If problems with Intel wifi cards occur even after this commit, then
pcie/aspm.c code could be modified / hooked to not enable ASPM L0s state
for affected problematic cards.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
index f9955b494267..74b90940a9d4 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
@@ -356,10 +356,6 @@ static void advk_pcie_setup_hw(struct advk_pcie *pcie)

 	advk_pcie_wait_for_link(pcie);

-	reg = PCIE_CORE_LINK_L0S_ENTRY |
-		(1 << PCIE_CORE_LINK_WIDTH_SHIFT);
-	advk_writel(pcie, reg, PCIE_CORE_LINK_CTRL_STAT_REG);
-
 	reg = advk_readl(pcie, PCIE_CORE_CMD_STATUS_REG);
 	reg |= PCIE_CORE_CMD_MEM_ACCESS_EN |
 		PCIE_CORE_CMD_IO_ACCESS_EN |
-- 
2.20.1