RE: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Save PCI state before putting drive into deepest state

[Mario.Limonciello]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4:36 PM
> To: Keith Busch
> Cc: Limonciello, Mario; Jens Axboe; Christoph Hellwig; Sagi Grimberg; linux-
> nvme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; LKML; Hong, Ryan; Wang, Crag; sjg@xxxxxxxxxx;
> Dominguez, Jared
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Save PCI state before putting drive into deepest
> state
> 
> 
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> 
> On Tuesday, September 17, 2019 11:24:14 PM CEST Keith Busch wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > > The action of saving the PCI state will cause numerous PCI configuration
> > > space reads which depending upon the vendor implementation may cause
> > > the drive to exit the deepest NVMe state.
> > >
> > > In these cases ASPM will typically resolve the PCIe link state and APST
> > > may resolve the NVMe power state.  However it has also been observed
> > > that this register access after quiesced will cause PC10 failure
> > > on some device combinations.
> > >
> > > To resolve this, move the PCI state saving to before SetFeatures has been
> > > called.  This has been proven to resolve the issue across a 5000 sample
> > > test on previously failing disk/system combinations.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 13 +++++++------
> > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> > > index 732d5b6..9b3fed4 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> > > @@ -2894,6 +2894,13 @@ static int nvme_suspend(struct device *dev)
> > >  	if (ret < 0)
> > >  		goto unfreeze;
> > >
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * A saved state prevents pci pm from generically controlling the
> > > +	 * device's power. If we're using protocol specific settings, we don't
> > > +	 * want pci interfering.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	pci_save_state(pdev);
> > > +
> > >  	ret = nvme_set_power_state(ctrl, ctrl->npss);
> > >  	if (ret < 0)
> > >  		goto unfreeze;
> > > @@ -2908,12 +2915,6 @@ static int nvme_suspend(struct device *dev)
> > >  		ret = 0;
> > >  		goto unfreeze;
> > >  	}
> > > -	/*
> > > -	 * A saved state prevents pci pm from generically controlling the
> > > -	 * device's power. If we're using protocol specific settings, we don't
> > > -	 * want pci interfering.
> > > -	 */
> > > -	pci_save_state(pdev);
> > >  unfreeze:
> > >  	nvme_unfreeze(ctrl);
> > >  	return ret;
> >
> > In the event that something else fails after the point you've saved
> > the state, we need to fallback to the behavior for when the driver
> > doesn't save the state, right?
> 
> Depending on whether or not an error is going to be returned.
> 
> When returning an error, it is not necessary to worry about the saved state,
> because that will cause the entire system-wide suspend to be aborted.

It looks like in this case an error would be returned.

> 
> Otherwise it is sufficient to clear the state_saved flag of the PCI device
> before returning 0 to make the PCI layer take over.