Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: dwc: Enable runtime pm of the host bridge

From: Krishna Chaitanya Chundru
Date: Thu Mar 07 2024 - 22:09:25 EST




On 3/8/2024 3:25 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
[+to Rafael, sorry, another runtime PM question, beginning of thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240305-runtime_pm_enable-v2-1-a849b74091d1@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 07:28:54AM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya Chundru wrote:
On 3/6/2024 1:27 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 03:19:01PM +0530, Krishna chaitanya chundru wrote:
The Controller driver is the parent device of the PCIe host bridge,
PCI-PCI bridge and PCIe endpoint as shown below.

PCIe controller(Top level parent & parent of host bridge)
|
v
PCIe Host bridge(Parent of PCI-PCI bridge)
|
v
PCI-PCI bridge(Parent of endpoint driver)
|
v
PCIe endpoint driver

Since runtime PM is disabled for host bridge, the state of the child
devices under the host bridge is not taken into account by PM framework
for the top level parent, PCIe controller. So PM framework, allows
the controller driver to enter runtime PM irrespective of the state
of the devices under the host bridge.

IIUC this says that we runtime suspend the controller even though
runtime PM is disabled for the host bridge? I have a hard time
parsing this; can you cite a function that does this or some relevant
documentation about how this part of runtime PM works?

Generally controller should go to runtime suspend when endpoint client
drivers and pci-pci host bridge drivers goes to runtime suspend as the
controller driver is the parent, but we are observing controller driver
goes to runtime suspend even when client drivers and PCI-PCI bridge are
in active state.

It surprises me that a device could be suspended while children are
active. A PCI-PCI bridge must be in D0 for any devices below it to be
active. The controller is a platform device, not a PCI device, but I
am similarly surprised that we would suspend it when children are
active, which makes me think we didn't set the hierarchy up correctly.

It doesn't seem like we should need to enable runtime PM for a parent
to keep it from being suspended when children are active.
Here we are not enabling runtime PM of the controller device, we are
enabling runtime PM for the bridge device which is maintained by the
PCIe framework. The bridge device is the parent of the PCI-PCI bridge
and child of the controller device. As the bridge device's runtime
PM is not enabled the PM framework is ignoring the child's runtime
status.

- Krishna Chaitanya.

--- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/of_pci.h>
#include <linux/pci_regs.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>

#include "../../pci.h"
#include "pcie-designware.h"
@@ -505,6 +506,9 @@ int dw_pcie_host_init(struct dw_pcie_rp *pp)
if (pp->ops->post_init)
pp->ops->post_init(pp);

+ pm_runtime_set_active(&bridge->dev);
+ pm_runtime_enable(&bridge->dev);
+
return 0;

err_stop_link:

Bjorn