netdev - Re: [PATCH 14/17] r8169: Use pcie_lnkctl_clear_and

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Message-ID: <20230511201025.GC31598@wunner.de>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 22:10:25 +0200
From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
To: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
	Krzysztof Wilczy?ski <kw@...ux.com>, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/17] r8169: Use pcie_lnkctl_clear_and_set() for
 changing LNKCTL

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:00:02PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2023, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> > On 11.05.2023 15:14, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > Don't assume that only the driver would be accessing LNKCTL. ASPM
> > > policy changes can trigger write to LNKCTL outside of driver's control.
> > > 
> > > Use pcie_lnkctl_clear_and_set() which does proper locking to avoid
> > > losing concurrent updates to the register value.
> > > 
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be more appropriate to add proper locking to the
> > underlying pcie_capability_clear_and_set_word()?
> 
> As per discussion for the other patch, that's where this series is now 
> aiming to in v2.

That discussion wasn't cc'ed to Heiner.  For reference, this is the
message Ilpo is referring to:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/ZF1AjOKDVlbNFJPK@bhelgaas/