Re: [PATCH] PCIe ASPM causes machine (HP Compaq 6735s) to sometimes freeze hard at boot at PCI initialization time

[Thomas Renninger]

On Monday 08 December 2008 02:32:42 Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 02:21 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:07:13PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > > PCIE: Break out of endless loop waiting for PCI config bits to switch
> > >
> > > Makes a Compaq 6735s boot reliably again which hang in the loop
> > > on some boots.
> >
> > Which device does it get stuck on?
> >
> > > +	if (loop_count == 100)
> > > +		dev_printk (KERN_WARNING, &pdev->dev, "Could not configure ASPM\n");
> >
> > "ASPM: Could not configure common clock\n"? ASPM should still work,
> > though with higher latency. It probably also needs to revert the
> > configuration changes.
>
> Yep, Just undo the pci config writes of pcie_aspm_configure_common_clock
> should be fine to me. Maybe an expiration time is ok here.
> Does the device work after this?

After not writing back the pci values as done with this patch?
Yes, I think it did.

It definitely does with this patch.

What about this one:

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