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Message-ID: <20201116192320.GA1290192@bjorn-Precision-5520>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:23:20 -0600
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc: "David E. Box" <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
Linux PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Disable PTM during suspend on Intel PCI bridges
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 06:53:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:10 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 06:53:16PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 6:49 PM David E. Box <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Intel Platform Controller Hubs (PCH) since Cannon Lake, the Precision
> > > > Time Measurement (PTM) capability can prevent PCIe root ports from power
> > > > gating during suspend-to-idle, causing increased power consumption on
> > > > systems that suspend using Low Power S0 Idle [1]. The issue is yet to be
> > > > root caused but believed to be coming from a race condition in the suspend
> > > > flow as the incidence rate varies for different platforms on Linux but the
> > > > issue does not occur at all in other operating systems. For now, disable
> > > > the feature on suspend on all Intel root ports and enable again on resume.
> > >
> > > IMV it should also be noted that there is no particular reason why PTM
> > > would need to be enabled while the whole system is suspended. At
> > > least it doesn't seem to be particularly useful in that state.
> >
> > Is this a hardware erratum? If not, and this is working as designed,
> > it sounds like we'd need to apply this quirk to every device that
> > supports PTM. That's not really practical.
>
> Why not?
My objection was that the original patch is a quirk that applies only
to Intel devices.
If this is a generic thing that should be done for *all* devices that
support PTM, that's fine, but it should not be a quirk, and it should
not involve a list of Vendor or Device IDs.
> It looks like the capability should be saved by pci_save_state() (it
> isn't ATM, which appears to be a mistake) and restored by
> pci_restore_state(), so if that is implemented, the saving can be
> combined with the disabling in principle.
Yup, looks like a mistake. Maybe David can fix that at the same time
(probably a separate patch, though). I don't have a way to test it,
but he probably does.
> > The bugzilla says "there is no erratum as this does not affect
> > Windows," but that doesn't answer the question. What I want to know
> > is whether this is a *hardware* defect and whether it will be fixed in
> > future hardware.
>
> I cannot answer this question, sorry.
>
> ATM we only know that certain SoCs may not enter the deepest idle
> state if PTM is enabled on some PCIe root ports during suspend.
>
> Disabling PTM on those ports while suspending helps and hence the patch.
>
> It doesn't appear to qualify as a "hardware defect".
>
> > If it's a "wont-fix" hardware issue, we can just disable PTM
> > completely on Intel hardware and we won't have to worry about it
> > during suspend.
>
> I'm not following the logic here, sorry again.
>
> First of all, there are systems that never suspend, so why would they
> be affected by the remedy (whatever it is)?
>
> Second, it is not about the suspend failing entirely. It's about
> being able to make the system draw less power while suspended.
>
> Generally, if someone said "I can make the system draw less power
> while suspended if I disable PCIe feature X during suspend", would you
> disregard that?
My questions were all prompted by the Intel-specific nature of the
original patch, which suggests an ongoing maintenance burden. If it
can be done generically, I have no problem with it.
Bjorn
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