Re: [PATCH] PCI/portdrv: Skip enabling AER on external facing ports

From: Kai-Heng Feng
Date: Fri Jan 21 2022 - 09:26:09 EST


On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 8:44 PM Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 08:31:27PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > Hi Mika,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 6:55 PM Mika Westerberg
> > <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Kai-Heng,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 12:09:57PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > > > Only from root ports of thunderbolt devices.
> > > >
> > > > The error occurs as soon as the root port is runtime suspended to D3cold.
> > > >
> > > > Runtime suspend the AER service can resolve the issue. I wonder if
> > > > it's the right thing to do here?
> > >
> > > I think you are right here. It seems that AER "service driver" is
> > > completely missing PM hooks. Probably because it is more used in server
> > > type of systems where power management is not priority.
> >
> > Here is my previous attempt to suspend AER:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210127173101.446940-1-kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> That's great!
>
> I think we should do the same for runtime PM paths too, though. Will you
> take care of that as well? :)

Yes that's the plan. I hope I can persuade Bjorn this time...

Kai-Heng