Re: [RFC PATCH v5 2/4] PCI: rockchip: Set Target Link Speed before retraining

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Fri Jun 20 2025 - 08:33:28 EST


On 2025-06-13 6:03 pm, Geraldo Nascimento wrote:
Current code may fail Gen2 retraining if Target Link Speed
is set to 2.5 GT/s in Link Control and Status Register 2.
Set it to 5.0 GT/s accordingly.

I have max-link-speed overridden to 2 in my local DTB, and indeed this seems to make my NVMe report a 5.0 GT/s link where previously it was still downgrading to 2.5, so:

Tested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Geraldo Nascimento <geraldogabriel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c
index 8489d51e01ca..467e3fc377f7 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c
@@ -341,6 +341,10 @@ static int rockchip_pcie_host_init_port(struct rockchip_pcie *rockchip)
* Enable retrain for gen2. This should be configured only after
* gen1 finished.
*/
+ status = rockchip_pcie_read(rockchip, PCIE_RC_CONFIG_CR + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2);
+ status &= ~PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2_TLS;
+ status |= PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2_TLS_5_0GT;
+ rockchip_pcie_write(rockchip, status, PCIE_RC_CONFIG_CR + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2);
rockchip_pcie_write(rockchip, status, PCIE_RC_CONFIG_CR + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2);
status = rockchip_pcie_read(rockchip, PCIE_RC_CONFIG_CR + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL);
status |= PCI_EXP_LNKCTL_RL;