linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] PCI/ACPI: PCI/ACPI: Validate devices with power resources support D3

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:37:58 -0600
From:   "Limonciello, Mario" <mario.limonciello@....com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mehta Sanju <Sanju.Mehta@....com>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] PCI/ACPI: PCI/ACPI: Validate devices with power
 resources support D3

On 11/14/2022 09:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 10:42 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 12:58:28PM -0600, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
>>> On 11/11/2022 11:41, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 05:33:55PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>>>>> Firmware typically advertises that ACPI devices that represent PCIe
>>>>> devices can support D3 by a combination of the value returned by
>>>>> _S0W as well as the HotPlugSupportInD3 _DSD [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> `acpi_pci_bridge_d3` looks for this combination but also contains
>>>>> an assumption that if an ACPI device contains power resources the PCIe
>>>>> device it's associated with can support D3.  This was introduced
>>>>> from commit c6e331312ebf ("PCI/ACPI: Whitelist hotplug ports for
>>>>> D3 if power managed by ACPI").
>>>>>
>>>>> Some firmware configurations for "AMD Pink Sardine" do not support
>>>>> wake from D3 in _S0W for the ACPI device representing the PCIe root
>>>>> port used for tunneling. The PCIe device will still be opted into
>>>>> runtime PM in the kernel [2] because of the logic within
>>>>> `acpi_pci_bridge_d3`. This currently happens because the ACPI
>>>>> device contains power resources.
>>
>> Wait.  Is this as simple as just recognizing that:
>>
>>    _PS0 means the OS has a knob to put the device in D0, but it doesn't
>>    mean the device can wake itself from a low-power state.  The OS has
>>    to use _S0W to learn the device's ability to wake itself.
> 
> It is.
> 
>> If that's enough, maybe we don't need to complicate this with all the
>> Thunderbolt and device link stuff.  Which would be great, because the
>> code change itself has nothing to do with those things.
> 
> Indeed.

I'd think it's still useful to leave "something" in the commit message 
about how we got to that conclusion though.

Bjorn, do you want me to to attempt to rewrite the commit message and 
send a v6, or would you like to?

Thanks,