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PCI/ASPM: Warn when driver asks to disable ASPM, but we can't do it

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Some devices have hardware problems related to using ASPM.  Drivers for
these devices use pci_disable_link_state() to prevent their device from
entering L0s or L1.  But on platforms where the OS doesn't have permission
to manage ASPM, pci_disable_link_state() doesn't actually disable ASPM.

Windows has a similar mechanism ("PciASPMOptOut"), and when the OS doesn't
have control of ASPM, it doesn't actually disable ASPM either.

This patch just adds a warning in dmesg about the fact that
pci_disable_link_state() is doing nothing.

Reported-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>
Reference: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANUX_P3F5YhbZX3WGU-j1AGpbXb_T9Bis2ErhvKkFMtDvzatVQ@mail.gmail.com
Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57331
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
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Bjorn Helgaas 2013-05-21 10:56:51 -06:00
parent de7f2b1bdf
commit 2add0ec14c
1 changed files with 13 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c
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@ -724,9 +724,6 @@ static void __pci_disable_link_state(struct pci_dev *pdev, int state, bool sem,
struct pci_dev *parent = pdev->bus->self;
struct pcie_link_state *link;
if (aspm_disabled && !force)
return;
if (!pci_is_pcie(pdev))
return;
@ -736,6 +733,19 @@ static void __pci_disable_link_state(struct pci_dev *pdev, int state, bool sem,
if (!parent || !parent->link_state)
return;
/*
* A driver requested that ASPM be disabled on this device, but
* if we don't have permission to manage ASPM (e.g., on ACPI
* systems we have to observe the FADT ACPI_FADT_NO_ASPM bit and
* the _OSC method), we can't honor that request. Windows has
* a similar mechanism using "PciASPMOptOut", which is also
* ignored in this situation.
*/
if (aspm_disabled && !force) {
dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control\n");
return;
}
if (sem)
down_read(&pci_bus_sem);
mutex_lock(&aspm_lock);