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Message-ID: <20240829231231.GA80290@bhelgaas>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:12:31 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
"Maciej W . Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
Duc Dang <ducdang@...gle.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
"Li, Gary" <Gary.Li@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] PCI: Use Configuration RRS to wait for device
ready
On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 05:26:32PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 8/28/2024 16:42, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 04:24:01PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > > On 8/27/2024 18:48, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > > From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> > > >
> > > > After a device reset, pci_dev_wait() waits for a device to become
> > > > completely ready by polling the PCI_COMMAND register. The spec envisions
> > > > that software would instead poll for the device to stop responding to
> > > > config reads with Completions with Request Retry Status (RRS).
> > > >
> > > > Polling PCI_COMMAND leads to hardware retries that are invisible to
> > > > software and the backoff between software retries doesn't work correctly.
> > > >
> > > > Root Ports are not required to support the Configuration RRS Software
> > > > Visibility feature that prevents hardware retries and makes the RRS
> > > > Completions visible to software, so this series only uses it when available
> > > > and falls back to PCI_COMMAND polling when it's not.
> > > >
> > > > This is completely untested and posted for comments.
> > > >
> > > > Bjorn Helgaas (3):
> > > > PCI: Wait for device readiness with Configuration RRS
> > > > PCI: aardvark: Correct Configuration RRS checking
> > > > PCI: Rename CRS Completion Status to RRS
> > > >
> > > > drivers/bcma/driver_pci_host.c | 10 ++--
> > > > drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-tegra194.c | 18 +++---
> > > > drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c | 64 +++++++++++-----------
> > > > drivers/pci/controller/pci-xgene.c | 6 +-
> > > > drivers/pci/controller/pcie-iproc.c | 18 +++---
> > > > drivers/pci/pci-bridge-emul.c | 4 +-
> > > > drivers/pci/pci.c | 41 +++++++++-----
> > > > drivers/pci/pci.h | 11 +++-
> > > > drivers/pci/probe.c | 33 +++++------
> > > > include/linux/bcma/bcma_driver_pci.h | 2 +-
> > > > include/linux/pci.h | 1 +
> > > > include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h | 6 +-
> > > > 12 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Although this looks like a useful series, I'm sorry to say but
> > > this doesn't solve the issue that Gary and I raised. We double
> > > checked today and found that reading the vendor ID works just
> > > fine at this time.
> >
> > Thanks for testing that.
>
> Sure.
>
> > > I think that we're still better off polling PCI_PM_CTRL to
> > > "wait" for D0 after the state change from D3cold.
> >
> > Is there some spec justification for polling PCI_PM_CTRL? I'm
> > dubious about doing that just because "it works" in this
> > situation, unless we have some better understanding about *why* it
> > works and whether all devices are supposed to work that way.
>
> I mentioned this a little bit in my patch 3/5 in my submission. The
> issue isn't "normal" D3cold exit that is fully settled down. That
> takes ~6ms from measurements. The issue is how long it takes for
> D3cold *entry* followed by *exit*.
I think we should have this conversation in the context of your series
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823154023.360234-1-superm1@kernel.org)
because PCI_PM_CTRL questions are more relevant there, so I'll respond
there.
> When this issue occurs it's tied with a tight loop of runtime PM
> entry and exit happening in that short window. That's why it can be
> tripped by unplugging a dock, waiting until ~approximately
> autosuspend delay and plugging it back in. If you catch the right
> timing then the USB4 router is still on its way down to D3cold.
>
> In terms of a way to match this problem to the spec, the closest I
> could think is PCI-PM spec.
>
> But I do see in the PCI-PM spec that the delay for D0->D3hot should
> be 10ms. In the Linux kernel implementation __pci_set_power_state()
> when called with D3cold calls pci_set_low_power_state() which does
> wait 10ms followed by using the platform to remove power.
>
> I can't find any timing requirements for D3hot->D3cold transition
> though.
>
> I would hypothesize that if we injected a longer delay on the "other
> end" for the D3cold transition entry it would solve this issue as
> well though.
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