Re: [PATCH] PCI/ASPM: Reduce severity of log message

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Sat Mar 28 2020 - 16:10:53 EST


On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:55:30PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote:
> When the UEFI/BIOS or bootloader has not initialised a PCIe device we
> would get the following message.
>
> kern.warning: pci 0000:00:01.0: ASPM: current common clock configuration is broken, reconfiguring
>
> "warning" and "broken" are slightly misleading. On an embedded system it
> is quite possible for the bootloader to avoid configuring PCIe devices
> if they are not needed.
>
> Downgrade the message to pci_info() and change "broken" to
> "inconsistent" since we fix up the inconsistency in the code immediately
> following the message (and emit an error if that fails).
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to pci/aspm for v5.7, thanks!

> ---
> I'm updating a system from an older kernel to the latest and our tests flagged
> this error message. I don't believe it's actually an error since our bootloader
> doesn't touch the PCI bus (infact the kernel releases the reset to that
> particular device before the PCI bus scan).
>
> drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c
> index 0dcd44308228..3a165ab3413b 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c
> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ static void pcie_aspm_configure_common_clock(struct pcie_link_state *link)
> }
> if (consistent)
> return;
> - pci_warn(parent, "ASPM: current common clock configuration is broken, reconfiguring\n");
> + pci_info(parent, "ASPM: current common clock configuration is inconsistent, reconfiguring\n");
> }
>
> /* Configure downstream component, all functions */
> --
> 2.25.1
>