Re: [PATCH v3] pci: prevent putting nvidia GPUs into lower device states on certain intel bridges

[Mika Westerberg]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:00:46PM +0200, Karol Herbst wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 1:40 PM Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Karol,
> >
> > Sorry for commenting late, I just came back from vacation.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Karol Herbst wrote:
> > > Fixes state transitions of Nvidia Pascal GPUs from D3cold into higher device
> > > states.
> > >
> > > v2: convert to pci_dev quirk
> > >     put a proper technical explanation of the issue as a in-code comment
> > > v3: disable it only for certain combinations of intel and nvidia hardware
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/pci/pci.c    | 11 ++++++++++
> > >  drivers/pci/quirks.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > I may be missing something but why you can't do this in the nouveau
> > driver itself?
> 
> What do you mean precisely? Move the quirk into nouveau, but keep the
> changes to pci core?

No, just block runtime PM from the device in nouveau driver.