Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Cleanup link activation wait logic

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2024, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Feb 2024, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> 
> > 1. Change pcie_failed_link_retrain() to return true only if link was
> >    retrained successfully due to the Target Speed quirk. If there is no
> >    LBMS set, return false instead of true because no retraining was
> >    even attempted. This seems correct considering expectations of both
> >    callers of pcie_failed_link_retrain().
> 
>  You change the logic here in that the second conditional isn't run if the 
> first has not.  This is wrong, unclamping is not supposed to rely on LBMS. 
> It is supposed to be always run and any failure has to be reported too, as 
> a retraining error.

Now that (I think) I fully understand the intent of the second 
condition/block one additional question occurred to me.

How is the 2nd condition even supposed to work in the current place when 
firmware has pre-arranged the 2.5GT/s resctriction? Wouldn't the link come 
up fine in that case and the quirk code is not called at all since the 
link came up successfully?


Yet another thing in this quirk code I don't like is how it can leaves the 
target speed to 2.5GT/s when the quirk fails to get the link working 
(which actually does happen in the disconnection cases because DLLLA won't 
be set so the target speed will not be restored).


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 i.