Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI: dwc: Add host_post_init() callback

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 03:58:49PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 09:29:13PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > This callback can be used by the platform drivers to do configuration once
> > all the devices are scanned. Like changing LNKCTL of all downstream devices
> > to enable ASPM etc...
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c | 3 +++
> >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.h      | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> > index a7170fd0e847..7991f0e179b2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> > @@ -502,6 +502,9 @@ int dw_pcie_host_init(struct dw_pcie_rp *pp)
> >  	if (ret)
> >  		goto err_stop_link;
> >  
> > +	if (pp->ops->host_post_init)
> > +		pp->ops->host_post_init(pp);
> 
> I know we talked about this a little bit in the context of enabling
> ASPM for devices below qcom 1.9.0 controllers at
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231011050058.GC3508@thinkpad
> 
> But I didn't realize at the time that this callback adds a fundamental
> difference between devices present at boot-time (these devices can be
> affected by this callback) and any devices hot-added later (we never
> run this callback again, so anything done by .host_post_init() never
> applies to them).
> 
> We merged this for now, and it helps enable ASPM for builtin devices
> on qcom, but I don't feel good about this from a larger DWC
> perspective.  If other drivers use this and they support hot-add, I
> think we're going to have problems.
> 

If someone is going to add same ASPM code in host_post_init() callback, they
will most likely aware of the hotplug issue. I see this as an interim solution
overall and we should fix the PCI core to handle this. But I do not see any
straightforward way to enable ASPM by default in PCI core as the misbehaving
devices can pull the system down (atleast in some x86 cases).

- Mani

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