Re: PCI runtime PM issue on NEC xHCI host

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On Tuesday, November 01, 2011, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:34:44AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 17:00:20 +0000
> > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Don't we already have that, assuming the hardware gives us control via 
> > > _OSC? The problem we've seen is that a pile of hardware appears to set 
> > > the PME flag without generating any interrupt, regardless of whether 
> > > we're in ACPI or native delivery modes.
> > 
> > On Linus's machine, we didn't see any GPEs and neither does there seem
> > to be an interrupt handler registered for the PME interrupt...  Not
> > that having one registered will guarnatee us anything, but it's worth
> > forcing it to see if we at least get interrupts (though that assumes
> > the NEC device is actually sending PME messages to the root complex
> > correctly).
> 
> That just means the _OSC handover didn't give us control.

Yes, it seems so.

> My experience of every NEC xhci controller so far is that they fail to
> generate runtime PMEs, which is a much more straightforward reason to fail
> to get any GPEs. You can test with pcie_ports=native to force setting it all
> up for native delivery. pcie_pme=nomsi may also be worth a go.

If the BIOS doesn't allow us to control PME, that's not very likely to work.

Thanks,
Rafael
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