linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] PCI/PM: Rework changing power states of PCI devices

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Message-ID: <20220504155435.GB2697452@mutt>
Date:   Wed, 4 May 2022 17:54:36 +0200
From:   Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] PCI/PM: Rework changing power states of PCI
 devices

On 2022-05-04 14:59, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 7:59 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rafael,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 03:11:21PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > >
> > > There are some issues related to changing power states of PCI
> > > devices, mostly related to carrying out unnecessary actions in some
> > > places, and the code is generally hard to follow.
> > >
> > >  1. pci_power_up() has two callers, pci_set_power_state() and
> > >     pci_pm_default_resume_early().  The latter updates the current
> > >     power state of the device right after calling pci_power_up()
> > >     and it restores the entire config space of the device right
> > >     after that, so pci_power_up() itself need not read the
> > >     PCI_PM_CTRL register or restore the BARs after programming the
> > >     device into D0 in that case.
> > >
> > >  2. It is generally hard to get a clear view of the pci_power_up()
> > >     code flow, especially in some corner cases, due to all of the
> > >     involved PCI_PM_CTRL register reads and writes occurring in
> > >     pci_platform_power_transition() and in pci_raw_set_power_state(),
> > >     some of which are redundant.
> > >
> > >  3. The transitions from low-power states to D0 and the other way
> > >     around are unnecessarily tangled in pci_raw_set_power_state()
> > >     which causes it to use a redundant local variable and makes it
> > >     rather hard to follow.
> > >
> > > To address the above shortcomings, make the following changes:
> > >
> > >  a. Remove the code handling transitions into D0
> > >     from pci_raw_set_power_state() and rename it as
> > >     pci_set_low_power_state().
> > >
> > >  b. Add the code handling transitions into D0 directly
> > >     to pci_power_up() and to a new wrapper function
> > >     pci_set_full_power_state() calling it internally that is
> > >     only used in pci_set_power_state().
> > >
> > >  c. Make pci_power_up() avoid redundant PCI_PM_CTRL register reads
> > >     and make it work in the same way for transitions from any
> > >     low-power states (transitions from D1 and D2 are handled
> > >     slightly differently before the change).
> > >
> > >  d. Put the restoration of the BARs and the PCI_PM_CTRL
> > >     register read confirming the power state change into
> > >     pci_set_full_power_state() to avoid doing that in
> > >     pci_pm_default_resume_early() unnecessarily.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
> >
> > This change as commit 5bffe4c611f5 ("PCI/PM: Rework changing power
> > states of PCI devices") causes my AMD-based system to fail to fully
> > boot. As far as I can tell, this might be NVMe related, which might make
> > getting a full log difficult, as journalctl won't have anywhere to save
> > it. I see:
> >
> > nvme nvme0: I/O 8 QID 0 timeout, completion polled
> >
> > then shortly afterwards:
> >
> > nvme nvme0: I/O 24 QID 0 timeout, completion polled
> > nvme nvme0: missing or invalid SUBNQN field
> >
> > then I am dropped into an emergency shell.
> 
> Thanks for the report!
> 
> > This is a log from the previous commit, which may give some hints about
> > the configuration of this particular system.
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/nathanchance/8a56f0939410cb187896e904c72e41e7/raw/b47b2620bdd32d43c7a3b209fcfd9e3d4668f058/good-boot.log
> >
> > If there is any additional debugging information I can provide or
> > patches I can try, please let me know!
> 
> Please see what happens if the "if (dev->current_state == PCI_D0)"
> check and the following "return 0" statement in pci_power_up() are
> commented out.

I've built an arm64 allmodconfig kernel on linux-next tag next-20220503, and tried to boot it.
This is the boot error I see [1].
I bisected down to this patch [2]

When I revert the following patches [3] the kernel boots fine.
I also tried next-20220504 and I saw the same issue.

Cheers,
Anders
[1] http://ix.io/3WT3
[2] http://ix.io/3WXT
[3] http://ix.io/3WXU