15 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • Move the evaluation of acpi_pci_osc_control_set() (to request control of
    PCI Express native features) into acpi_pci_root_add() to avoid calling
    it many times for the same root complex with the same arguments.
    Additionally, check if all of the requisite _OSC support bits are set
    before calling acpi_pci_osc_control_set() for a given root complex.

    References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20232
    Reported-by: Ozan Caglayan
    Tested-by: Ozan Caglayan
    Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
    Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes

    Rafael J. Wysocki
     

16 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • There is a design issue related to PCIe AER and _OSC that the BIOS
    may be asked to grant control of the AER service even if some
    Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) entries contain information
    meaning that the BIOS really should control it. Namely,
    pcie_port_acpi_setup() calls pcie_aer_get_firmware_first() that
    determines whether or not the AER service should be controlled by
    the BIOS on the basis of the HEST information for the given PCIe
    port. The BIOS is asked to grant control of the AER service for
    a PCIe Root Complex if pcie_aer_get_firmware_first() returns 'false'
    for at least one root port in that complex, even if all of the other
    root ports' HEST entries have the FIRMWARE_FIRST flag set (and none
    of them has the GLOBAL flag set). However, if the AER service is
    controlled by the kernel, that may interfere with the BIOS' handling
    of the error sources having the FIRMWARE_FIRST flag. Moreover,
    there may be PCIe endpoints that have the FIRMWARE_FIRST flag set in
    HEST and are attached to the root ports in question, in which case it
    also may be unsafe to ask the BIOS for control of the AER service.

    For this reason, introduce a function checking if there's at least
    one PCIe-related HEST entry with the FIRMWARE_FIRST flag set and
    disable the native AER service altogether if this function returns
    'true'.

    Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
    Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes

    Rafael J. Wysocki
     

25 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • After commit 852972acff8f10f3a15679be2059bb94916cba5d (ACPI: Disable
    ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe) control of
    the PCIe Capability Structure is unconditionally requested by
    acpi_pci_root_add(), which in principle may cause problems to
    happen in two ways. First, the BIOS may refuse to give control of
    the PCIe Capability Structure if it is not asked for any of the
    _OSC features depending on it at the same time. Second, the BIOS may
    assume that control of the _OSC features depending on the PCIe
    Capability Structure will be requested in the future and may behave
    incorrectly if that doesn't happen. For this reason, control of
    the PCIe Capability Structure should always be requested along with
    control of any other _OSC features that may depend on it (ie. PCIe
    native PME, PCIe native hot-plug, PCIe AER).

    Rework the PCIe port driver so that (1) it checks which native PCIe
    port services can be enabled, according to the BIOS, and (2) it
    requests control of all these services simultaneously. In
    particular, this causes pcie_portdrv_probe() to fail if the BIOS
    refuses to grant control of the PCIe Capability Structure, which
    means that no native PCIe port services can be enabled for the PCIe
    Root Complex the given port belongs to. If that happens, ASPM is
    disabled to avoid problems with mishandling it by the part of the
    PCIe hierarchy for which control of the PCIe Capability Structure
    has not been received.

    Make it possible to override this behavior using 'pcie_ports=native'
    (use the PCIe native services regardless of the BIOS response to the
    control request), or 'pcie_ports=compat' (do not use the PCIe native
    services at all).

    Accordingly, rework the existing PCIe port service drivers so that
    they don't request control of the services directly.

    Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
    Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes

    Rafael J. Wysocki