Re: [PATCH V1] PCI/ASPM: Save/restore L1SS Capability for suspend/resume

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 19:21:01 EST


[+cc Ricky for rtsx_pci ASPM behavior, Rajat, Prasad for L1 SS stuff,
Victor for interest in disabling ASPM during save/restore]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 06:41:39PM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote:
> On 2/16/2022 11:30 AM, Kenneth R. Crudup wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Vidya Sagar wrote:
> >
> > > I see that the ASPM-L1 state of Realtek NIC which was in
> > > disabled state before hibernate got enabled after hibernate.
> >
> > That's actually my SD-Card reader; there's a good chance the BIOS
> > does "something" to it at boot time, as it's possible to boot from
> > SD-Card on my laptop.
> >
> > > This patch doesn't do anything to LnkCtl register which has
> > > control for ASPM L1 state.
> >
> > > Could you please check why ASPM L1 got enabled post hibernation?
> >
> > I wouldn't know how to do that; if you're still interested in that
> > let me know what to do to determine that.

> I would like Bjorn to take a call on it.
> At this point, there are contradictions in observations.

Remind me what contradictions you see? I know Kenny saw NVMe errors
on a kernel that included 4257f7e008ea ("PCI/ASPM: Save/restore L1SS
Capability for suspend/resume") in December 2020 [1], and that he did
*not* see those errors on 4257f7e008ea in February 2022 [2]. Is that
what you mean?

> Just to summarize,
> - The root ports in your laptop don't have support for L1SS
> - With the same old code base with which the errors were observed plus my
> patch on top of it, I see that ASPM-L1 state getting enabled for one of the
> endpoints (Realtek SD-Card reader) after system comes out of hibernation
> even though ASPM-L1 was disabled before the system enter into hibernation.
> No errors are reported now.

I assume you refer to [2], where on 4257f7e008ea ("PCI/ASPM:
Save/restore L1SS Capability for suspend/resume"), Kenny saw ASPM L1
disabled before hibernate and enabled afterwards:

--- pre-hibernate
+++ post-hibernate
00:1d.7 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel [8086:34b7]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=58, subordinate=58
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+
58:00.0 RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:525a]
- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk-
- ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
+ LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk-
+ ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-

Per PCIe r6.0, sec 7.5.3.7, "ASPM L1 must be enabled by software in
the Upstream component on a Link prior to enabling ASPM L1 in the
Downstream component on that Link," so this definitely seems broken,
but wouldn't explain the NVMe issue.

The PCI core (pcie_config_aspm_link()) always enables L1 in the
upstream component before the downstream one, but 58:00.0 uses the
rtsx_pci driver, which does a lot of its own ASPM fiddling, so my
guess is that it's doing something wrong here.

> - With the linux-next top of the tree plus my patch, no change in the ASPM
> states and no errors also reported.

I don't know which report this refers to.

> This points to BIOS being buggy (both old and new with new one being less
> problematic)

I agree that a BIOS change between [1] and [2] seems plausible, but I
don't think we can prove that yet. I'm slightly queasy because while
Kenny may have updated his BIOS, most people will not have.

I think we should try this patch again with some changes and maybe
some debug logging:

- I wonder if we should integrate the LTR, L1 SS, and Link Control
ASPM restore instead of having them spread around through
pci_restore_ltr_state(), pci_restore_aspm_l1ss_state(), and
pci_restore_pcie_state(). Maybe a new pci_restore_aspm() that
would be called from pci_restore_pcie_state()?

- For L1 PM Substates configuration, sec 5.5.4 says that both ports
must be configured while ASPM L1 is disabled, but I don't think we
currently guarantee this: we restore all the upstream component
state first, and we don't know the ASPM state of the downstream
one. Maybe we need to:

* When restoring upstream component,
+ disable its ASPM

* When restoring downstream component,
+ disable its ASPM
+ restore upstream component's LTR, L1SS
+ restore downstream component's LTR, L1SS
+ restore upstream component's ASPM
+ restore downstream component's ASPM

This seems pretty messy, but seems like what the spec requires.

- Add some pci_dbg() logging of all these save/restore values to
help debug any issues.

Bjorn

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201228040513.GA611645@bjorn-Precision-5520
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/3ca14a7-b726-8430-fe61-a3ac183a1088@xxxxxxxxx