Clear Link Bandwidth Management Status (LBMS) if set, on a hot-remove event.
The hot-remove event could result in target link speed reduction if LBMS
is set, due to a delay in Presence Detect State Change (PDSC) happening
after a Data Link Layer State Change event (DLLSC).
In reality, PDSC and DLLSC events rarely come in simultaneously. Delay in
PDSC can sometimes be too late and the slot could have already been
powered down just by a DLLSC event. And the delayed PDSC could falsely be
interpreted as an interrupt raised to turn the slot on. This false process
of powering the slot on, without a link forces the kernel to retrain the
link if LBMS is set, to a lower speed to restablish the link thereby
bringing down the link speeds [2].
According to PCIe r6.2 sec 7.5.3.8 [1], it is derived that, LBMS cannot
be set for an unconnected link and if set, it serves the purpose of
indicating that there is actually a device down an inactive link.
However, hardware could have already set LBMS when the device was
connected to the port i.e when the state was DL_Up or DL_Active. Some
hardwares would have even attempted retrain going into recovery mode,
just before transitioning to DL_Down.
Thus the set LBMS is never cleared and might force software to cause link
speed drops when there is no link [2].
Dmesg before:
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): Link Down
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): Card present
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: retraining failed
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): No link
Dmesg after:
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): Link Down
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): Card present
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): No link
[1] PCI Express Base Specification Revision 6.2, Jan 25 2024.
https://members.pcisig.com/wg/PCI-SIG/document/20590
[2] Commit a89c82249c37 ("PCI: Work around PCIe link training failures")
Signed-off-by: Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@xxxxxxx>
---
1. Should be based on top of fixes for link retrain status in
pcie_wait_for_link_delay()
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pci/list/?series=824858
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/53b2239b-4a23-a948-a422-4005cbf76148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Without the fixes patch output would be:
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): Link Down
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): Card present
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: retraining failed
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): No device found.
2. I initially attempted to wait for both events PDSC and DLLSC to happen
and then turn on the slot.
Similar to: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190205210701.25387-1-mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx/
but before turning on the slot.
Something like:
- ctrl->state = POWERON_STATE;
- mutex_unlock(&ctrl->state_lock);
- if (present)
+ if (present && link_active) {
+ ctrl->state = POWERON_STATE;
+ mutex_unlock(&ctrl->state_lock);
ctrl_info(ctrl, "Slot(%s): Card present\n",
slot_name(ctrl));
- if (link_active)
ctrl_info(ctrl, "Slot(%s): Link Up\n",
slot_name(ctrl));
- ctrl->request_result = pciehp_enable_slot(ctrl);
- break;
+ ctrl->request_result = pciehp_enable_slot(ctrl);
+ break;
+ }
+ else {
+ mutex_unlock(&ctrl->state_lock);
+ break;
+ }
This would also avoid printing the lines below on a remove event.
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): Card present
pcieport 0000:20:01.1: pciehp: Slot(59): No link
I understand this would likely be not applicable in places where broken
devices hardwire PDS to zero and PDSC would never happen. But I'm open to
making changes if this is more applicable. Because, SW cannot directly
track the interference of HW in attempting link retrain and setting LBMS.
3. I tried introducing delay similar to pcie_wait_for_presence() but I
was not successful in picking the right numbers. Hence hit with the same
link speed drop.
4. For some reason I was unable to clear LBMS with:
pcie_capability_clear_word(ctrl->pcie->port, PCI_EXP_LNKSTA,
PCI_EXP_LNKSTA_LBMS);
---
drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_pci.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_pci.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_pci.c
index ad12515a4a12..9155fdfd1d37 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_pci.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ void pciehp_unconfigure_device(struct controller *ctrl, bool presence)
{
struct pci_dev *dev, *temp;
struct pci_bus *parent = ctrl->pcie->port->subordinate;
- u16 command;
+ u16 command, lnksta;
ctrl_dbg(ctrl, "%s: domain:bus:dev = %04x:%02x:00\n",
__func__, pci_domain_nr(parent), parent->number);
@@ -134,4 +134,10 @@ void pciehp_unconfigure_device(struct controller *ctrl, bool presence)
}
pci_unlock_rescan_remove();
+
+ /* Clear LBMS on removal */
+ pcie_capability_read_word(ctrl->pcie->port, PCI_EXP_LNKSTA, &lnksta);
+ if (lnksta & PCI_EXP_LNKSTA_LBMS)
+ pcie_capability_write_word(ctrl->pcie->port, PCI_EXP_LNKSTA,
+ PCI_EXP_LNKSTA_LBMS);
}
--
2.17.1
