Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] PCI: Add missing link delays required by the PCIe spec

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Tue Nov 05 2019 - 10:28:39 EST


On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 09:00:13AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 11:54:28AM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 06:00:00PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> > > > If you think it is fine to do the delay before we have restored
> > > > everything I can move it inside pci_power_up() or call it after
> > > > pci_pm_default_resume_early() as above. I think at least we should make
> > > > sure all the saved registers are restored before so that the link
> > > > activation check actually works.
> > >
> > > What needs to be restored to make pcie_wait_for_link_delay() work?
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure. I think that pci_restore_state() at least should
> > be called so that the PCIe capability gets restored. Maybe not even
> > that because Data Link Layer Layer Active always reflects the DL_Active
> > or not and it does not need to be enabled separately.
> >
> > > And what event does the restore need to be ordered with?
> >
> > Not sure I follow you here.
>
> You're suggesting that we should restore saved registers first so
> pcie_wait_for_link_delay() works. If the link activation depends on
> something being restored and we don't enforce an ordering, the
> activation might succeed or fail depending on whether it happens
> before or after the restore. So if there is a dependency, we should
> make it explicit to avoid a race like that.

OK thanks. By explicit you mean document it in the code, right?

> But I'm not saying we *shouldn't* do the restore before the wait; only
> that any dependency should be explicit. Even if there is no actual
> dependency it probably makes sense to do the restore first so it can
> overlap with the hardware link training, which may reduce the time
> pcie_wait_for_link_delay() has to wait when we do call it, e.g.,
>
> |-----------------| link activation
> |-----| restore state
> |--------| pcie_wait_for_link_delay()
>
> whereas if we do the restore after waiting for the link to come up, it
> probably takes longer:
>
> |-----------------| link activation
> |--------------| pcie_wait_for_link_delay()
> |-----| restore state
>
> I actually suspect there *is* a dependency -- we should respect the
> Target Link Speed and and width so the link resumes in the same
> configuration it was before suspend. And I suspect that may require
> an explicit retrain after restoring PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2.

According the PCIe spec the PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2 Target Link Speed is marked
as RWS (S for sticky) so I suspect its value is retained after reset in
the same way as PME bits. Assuming I understood it correctly.