The Controller driver is the parent device of the PCIe host bridge, PCI-PCI bridge and PCIe endpoint as shown below. PCIe controller(Top level parent & parent of host bridge) | v PCIe Host bridge(Parent of PCI-PCI bridge) | v PCI-PCI bridge(Parent of endpoint driver) | v PCIe endpoint driver Now, when the controller device goes to runtime suspend, PM framework will check the runtime PM state of the child device (host bridge) and will find it to be disabled. So it will allow the parent (controller device) to go to runtime suspend. Only if the child device's state was 'active' it will prevent the parent to get suspended. Since runtime PM is disabled for host bridge, the state of the child devices under the host bridge is not taken into account by PM framework for the top level parent, PCIe controller. So PM framework, allows the controller driver to enter runtime PM irrespective of the state of the devices under the host bridge. And this causes the topology breakage and also possible PM issues like controller driver goes to runtime suspend while endpoint driver is doing some transfers. So enable runtime PM for the host bridge, so that controller driver goes to suspend only when all child devices goes to runtime suspend. Signed-off-by: Krishna chaitanya chundru <quic_krichai@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v3: - Moved the runtime API call's from the dwc driver to PCI framework as it is applicable for all (suggested by mani) - Updated the commit message. - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240305-runtime_pm_enable-v2-1-a849b74091d1@xxxxxxxxxxx Changes in v2: - Updated commit message as suggested by mani. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240219-runtime_pm_enable-v1-1-d39660310504@xxxxxxxxxxx --- --- drivers/pci/probe.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c index 20475ca30505..b7f9ff75b0b3 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c @@ -3108,6 +3108,10 @@ int pci_host_probe(struct pci_host_bridge *bridge) pcie_bus_configure_settings(child); pci_bus_add_devices(bus); + + pm_runtime_set_active(&bridge->dev); + pm_runtime_enable(&bridge->dev); + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_host_probe); --- base-commit: 30417e6592bfc489a78b3fe564cfe1960e383829 change-id: 20240609-runtime_pm-7e6de1190113 Best regards, -- Krishna chaitanya chundru <quic_krichai@xxxxxxxxxxx>