[PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: dwc: Advertise L1 PM Substates only if driver requests it

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 12:08:41PM +0100, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 05:34:18PM -0500, Frank Li wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 03:42:15PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> > >
> > > L1 PM Substates require the CLKREQ# signal and may also require
> > > device-specific support.  If CLKREQ# is not supported or driver support is
> > > lacking, enabling L1.1 or L1.2 may cause errors when accessing devices,
> > > e.g.,
> > >
> > >   nvme nvme0: controller is down; will reset: CSTS=0xffffffff, PCI_STATUS=0x10
> > >
> > > If the kernel is built with CONFIG_PCIEASPM_POWER_SUPERSAVE=y or users
> > > enable L1.x via sysfs, users may trip over these errors even if L1
> > > Substates haven't been enabled by firmware or the driver.
> > >
> > > To prevent such errors, disable advertising the L1 PM Substates unless the
> > > driver sets "dw_pcie.l1ss_support" to indicate that it knows CLKREQ# is
> > > present and any device-specific configuration has been done.
> > >
> > > Set "dw_pcie.l1ss_support" in tegra194 (if DT includes the
> > > "supports-clkreq' property) and qcom (for cfg_2_7_0, cfg_1_9_0, cfg_1_34_0,
> > > and cfg_sc8280xp controllers) so they can continue to use L1 Substates.
> > >
> > > Based on Niklas's patch:
> > > https://patch.msgid.link/20251017163252.598812-2-cassel@kernel.org
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  .../pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-ep.c   |  2 ++
> > >  .../pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c |  2 ++
> > >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.c  | 24 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.h  |  2 ++
> > >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-qcom.c        |  2 ++
> > >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-tegra194.c    |  3 +++
> > >  6 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-ep.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-ep.c
> > > index 7f2112c2fb21..ad6c0fd67a65 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-ep.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-ep.c
> > > @@ -966,6 +966,8 @@ int dw_pcie_ep_init_registers(struct dw_pcie_ep *ep)
> > >  	if (ep->ops->init)
> > >  		ep->ops->init(ep);
> > >
> > > +	dw_pcie_hide_unsupported_l1ss(pci);
> > > +
> > 
> > And, I don't think EP need clean L1SS CAP flags. If EP don't support L1SS,
> > it should be force pull down #clkreq.
> 
> I think the problem is that we cannot force pull down CLKREQ# in a generic
> DWC function. That would have to be done in glue driver specific callbacks.
> 
> Bjorn, perhaps we should simply drop the dw_pcie_hide_unsupported_l1ss()
> call from dw_pcie_ep_init_registers(), and consider hiding L1ss for EPs to
> be out of scope for this series.
> 
> That way, we could still queue this series up for 6.19.
> 
> Thoughts from everyone?

Good idea, done locally, thanks!

Bjorn