Re: [PATCH RESEND] PCI: disable runtime PM for PLX switches

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:01 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 05:58:19PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 09:11:48AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > >   - Maybe the PCI sysfs accessors (pci_mmap_resource(), etc) should
> > >     turn off runtime PM?  If we allow mmap of a BAR and then put the
> > >     device in D3hot, that seems like a bug that could affect lots of
> > >     things.  But maybe that's already done magically elsewhere?
> >
> > IIRC there is no PM magic happening for MMIO userspace accesses.
> >
> > What you suggest above sounds like a good way to fix it. We already do
> > similar for config space access from userspace (if the device is in
> > D3cold) so definitely makes sense to do the same for MMIO. However, I
> > don't think we need to disable runtime PM - it should be enough to
> > increase the reference count (pm_runtime_get_sync() and friends) during
> > the time the MMIO resource is mmapped.
>
> OK, so if I understand correctly this would be basically adding
> pm_runtime_get_sync(dev) in pci_mmap_resource().  I don't know what
> the unmap path is, but there would have to be a matching
> pm_runtime_put() somewhere.

Right.

> And a similar change in the read/write path for /sys/.../resource<N>;
> I think this must be related to the sysfs_create_bin_file() call in
> pci_create_attr(), but I don't see the path where the actual
> read/write to the device is done.
>
> And probably something similar should be done in pci_resource_io(),
> pci_map_rom(), and pci_unmap_rom().

In general, every path in which there is a memory or IO address space
access requires pm_runtime_get_sync()/pm_runtime_put() around it as
these accesses are only guaranteed to work in D0.

Cheers,
Rafael



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