Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: Re-enable downstream port LTR if it was previously enabled

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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 03:03:11PM +0800, Mingchuang Qiao wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 16:31 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc Alex and Mingchuang et al from
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112072739.31624-1-mingchuang.qiao@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:14:10PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > PCIe r5.0, sec 7.5.3.16 says that the downstream ports must reset the
> > > LTR enable bit if the link goes down (port goes DL_Down status). Now, if
> > > we had LTR previously enabled and the PCIe endpoint gets hot-removed and
> > > then hot-added back the ->ltr_path of the downstream port is still set
> > > but the port now does not have the LTR enable bit set anymore.
> > > 
> > > For this reason check if the bridge upstream had LTR enabled previously
> > > and re-enable it before enabling LTR for the endpoint.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Utkarsh H Patel <utkarsh.h.patel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I think this and Mingchuang's patch, which is essentially identical,
> > are right and solves the problem for hot-remove/hot-add.  In that
> > scenario we call pci_configure_ltr() on the hot-added device, and
> > with this patch, we'll re-enable LTR on the bridge leading to the new
> > device before enabling LTR on the new device itself.
> > 
> > But don't we have a similar problem if we simply do a Fundamental
> > Reset on a device?  I think the reset path will restore the device's
> > state, including PCI_EXP_DEVCTL2, but it doesn't do anything with the
> > upstream bridge, does it?
> > 
> 
> Yes. I think the same problem exists under such scenario, and that’s the
> issue my patch intends to resolve.
> I also prepared a v2 patch for review(update the patch description).
> Shall I submit the v2 patch for review?

I looked at your patch and indeed it is essentially doing the same as
this one. So let's forget this patch and go forward with yours :)

Would you like to expand your patch to handle the reset case too that
Bjorn desribes below?

> > So if a bridge and a device below it both have LTR enabled, can't we
> > have the following:
> > 
> >   - bridge LTR enabled
> >   - device LTR enabled
> >   - reset device, e.g., via Secondary Bus Reset
> >   - link goes down, bridge disables LTR
> >   - link comes back up, LTR disabled in both bridge and device
> >   - restore device state, including LTR enable
> >   - device sends LTR message
> >   - bridge reports Unsupported Request



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