Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Save PCI state before putting drive into deepest state

From: Keith Busch
Date: Tue Sep 17 2019 - 17:25:39 EST


On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> The action of saving the PCI state will cause numerous PCI configuration
> space reads which depending upon the vendor implementation may cause
> the drive to exit the deepest NVMe state.
>
> In these cases ASPM will typically resolve the PCIe link state and APST
> may resolve the NVMe power state. However it has also been observed
> that this register access after quiesced will cause PC10 failure
> on some device combinations.
>
> To resolve this, move the PCI state saving to before SetFeatures has been
> called. This has been proven to resolve the issue across a 5000 sample
> test on previously failing disk/system combinations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 13 +++++++------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index 732d5b6..9b3fed4 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -2894,6 +2894,13 @@ static int nvme_suspend(struct device *dev)
> if (ret < 0)
> goto unfreeze;
>
> + /*
> + * A saved state prevents pci pm from generically controlling the
> + * device's power. If we're using protocol specific settings, we don't
> + * want pci interfering.
> + */
> + pci_save_state(pdev);
> +
> ret = nvme_set_power_state(ctrl, ctrl->npss);
> if (ret < 0)
> goto unfreeze;
> @@ -2908,12 +2915,6 @@ static int nvme_suspend(struct device *dev)
> ret = 0;
> goto unfreeze;
> }
> - /*
> - * A saved state prevents pci pm from generically controlling the
> - * device's power. If we're using protocol specific settings, we don't
> - * want pci interfering.
> - */
> - pci_save_state(pdev);
> unfreeze:
> nvme_unfreeze(ctrl);
> return ret;

In the event that something else fails after the point you've saved
the state, we need to fallback to the behavior for when the driver
doesn't save the state, right?