Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] drop low power policy board type

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Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx> 於 2024年2月7日 週三 上午5:54寫道:
>
> On 2/6/2024 15:13, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> > The series is based on top of:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/libata/linux.git/log/?h=for-next
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This revives a patch sent out almost two years ago from Mario Limonciello:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/20220524170508.563-1-mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx/T/#u
> >
> > The reason why we did not merge it back then, is because LPM and hotplug
> > events are mutually exclusive.
> >
> > The difference with this series compared to what was sent out back then:
> > I've added a patch that checks if the port is external, i.e. either
> > hotplug capable or eSATA. For external ports, we never enable LPM, as
> > that will break hotplug.
> >
> > For ports that do not advertise themselves as external (typically laptops),
> > we set the LPM policy as requested.
> >
> > This matches how Microsoft Windows does things, see:
> > https://studylib.net/doc/10034428/esata---microsoft-center
> >
> > Thanks to Werner Fischer for suggesting something like this at last year's
> > ALPSS conference.
> >
> > There might of course be some platform firmware that e.g. incorrectly marks
> > its port as internal, even though it is external, but if we find any such
> > platforms we will need to deal with them using quirks.
> >
> >
> > Also note that we even if the user requested a certain policy, there is
> > no guarantee that he will get all the features for that policy, see:
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/ata/libata-sata.c#L403-L414
> >
> > However, I'd rather we not try to map all the combinations of
> > partial/slumber/devsleep in to a single policy represented by a single
> > integer, thus I do not try to "change" the requested policy.
> > The user will get all the features that are included in the requested
> > policy AND supported by the HBA.
> >
> > Another difference (compared to an earlier version of Mario's series)
> > is that we do not try to change the default CONFIG_SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY
> > value from 0 to 3, it will continue to be 0.
> > If you really don't want LPM even if your HBA supports it, and your port
> > is internal, one option is to leave the Kconfig set to the default value.
> >
> > Damien: considering that the Intel VMD + ahci_intel_pcs_quirk() bug turned
> > out to have nothing to do with LPM, it was simply the fact that the
> > ahci_intel_pcs_quirk() was only applied if there was an explicit entry in
> > ahci_pci_tbl. So since that bug is totally unrelated to LPM, I no longer
> > think that this series need to wait for a fix for that bug.
> >
> >
> > Link to v1:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/20240201161507.1147521-1-cassel@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > -Picked up tags from Damien.
> > -Moved the comment in front of ahci_mark_external_port() to inside the
> >   function.
> > -Modified the comment in patch 4/5 to more clearly state hotplug removal
> >   events.
> > -Rewrote the commit message for patch 4/5 to be more detailed.
> >
> >
>
> For the series:
> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
>
> > Kind regards,
> > Niklas
> >
> >
> > Mario Limonciello (1):
> >    ata: ahci: Drop low power policy board type
> >
> > Niklas Cassel (4):
> >    ata: ahci: move marking of external port earlier
> >    ata: ahci: a hotplug capable port is an external port
> >    ata: ahci: drop hpriv param from ahci_update_initial_lpm_policy()
> >    ata: ahci: do not enable LPM on external ports
> >
> >   drivers/ata/Kconfig   |   5 +-
> >   drivers/ata/ahci.c    | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> >   drivers/ata/ahci.h    |   9 +--
> >   drivers/ata/libahci.c |   7 ---
> >   4 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
> >
>

I have tested this patch series on ASUS B1400CEAE with both enabled
and disabled VMD.
The SATA storage works and binds the LPM policy correctly.

Tested-by: Jian-Hong Pan <jhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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