linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Introduce PECI subsystem

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Message-ID: <20211117035642.GH14774@packtop>
Date:   Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:56:43 +0000
From:   Zev Weiss <zweiss@...inix.com>
To:     Iwona Winiarska <iwona.winiarska@...el.com>
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        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Introduce PECI subsystem

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:25:39AM PST, Iwona Winiarska wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This is a third round of patches introducing PECI subsystem.
>Sorry for the delay between v2 and v3.
>

Hi Iwona,

I've done some testing of these patches on my AST2500/E-2778G OpenBMC
platform -- I had to do a small bit of hacking to add support for
INTEL_FAM6_KABYLAKE, but with that in place the newly-added code for the
8.8 format seems to work as it should.  Thanks!

In poking at it a bit further I encountered some sub-optimal behavior
w.r.t. to host power state transitions and timeouts though --
essentially, if I ever hit a timeout in aspeed_peci_xfer() (for example
on a read of a hwmon tempX_input file after an unexpected host
shutdown), it seems to get stuck in a state where even if the host comes
back online, all attempted PECI transfers continue just timing out.
(Rebooting the BMC seems to resolve the problem.)  This also happens if
I remove the peci client device via the 'remove' sysfs file, shut down
the host, and then do a rescan via sysfs while the host is off (i.e.
another operation that times out).

Let me know if there's any other info that would be helpful for
debugging.

Thanks,
Zev