[PATCH v4] drivers/nvme: Add support for ACPI StorageD3Enable property

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Jul 7 03:09:09 EDT 2020


On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 03:50:11PM -0700, David E. Box wrote:
> This patch implements a solution for a BIOS hack used on some currently
> shipping Intel systems to change driver power management policy for PCIe
> NVMe drives. Some newer Intel platforms, like some Comet Lake systems,
> require that PCIe devices use D3 when doing suspend-to-idle in order to
> allow the platform to realize maximum power savings. This is particularly
> needed to support ATX power supply shutdown on desktop systems. In order to
> ensure this happens for root ports with storage devices, Microsoft
> apparently created this ACPI _DSD property as a way to influence their
> driver policy. To my knowledge this property has not been discussed with
> the NVME specification body.
> 
> Though the solution is not ideal, it addresses a problem that also affects
> Linux since the NVMe driver's default policy of using NVMe APST during
> suspend-to-idle prevents the PCI root port from going to D3 and leads to
> higher power consumption for these platforms. The power consumption
> difference may be negligible on laptop systems, but many watts on desktop
> systems when the ATX power supply is blocked from powering down.
> 
> The patch creates a new nvme_acpi_storage_d3 function to check for the
> StorageD3Enable property during probe and enables D3 as a quirk if set.  It
> also provides a 'noacpi' module parameter to allow skipping the quirk if
> needed.
> 
> Tested on:
> PM961 NVMe SED Samsung 512GB
> INTEL SSDPEKKF512G8
> 
> Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/component-guidelines/power-management-for-storage-hardware-devices-intro
> Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box at linux.intel.com>
> ---
> Changes from V3:
>  	- Use pcie_find_root_port() instead of pci_find_pcie_root_port(),
>  	  changed in 5.8.
>  	- Remove "Cc:" emails that ended up at top of V3 commit message.
>  	- Fix changelog numbering.
>  
> Changes from V2:
> 	- Remove check for "not yet bound" ACPI companion device since
> 	  this will not be a concern at driver probe time per Rafael.
> 	- Move storage_d3 function out of PCI core and into NVMe driver
> 	  since there's nothing the PCI core can do with this code as
> 	  noted by Bjorn.
>  
> Changes from V1:
> 	- Export the pci_acpi_storage_d3 function for use by drivers as
> 	  needed instead of modifying the pci header.
> 	- Add missing put on acpi device handle.
> 	- Add 'noacpi' module parameter to allow undoing this change.
> 	- Add info message that this is a platform quirk.
> 
>  drivers/acpi/property.c |  3 +++
>  drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/property.c b/drivers/acpi/property.c
> index e601c4511a8b..c2e2ae774a19 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/property.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/property.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ static const guid_t prp_guids[] = {
>  	/* Thunderbolt GUID for WAKE_SUPPORTED: 6c501103-c189-4296-ba72-9bf5a26ebe5d */
>  	GUID_INIT(0x6c501103, 0xc189, 0x4296,
>  		  0xba, 0x72, 0x9b, 0xf5, 0xa2, 0x6e, 0xbe, 0x5d),
> +	/* Storage device needs D3 GUID: 5025030f-842f-4ab4-a561-99a5189762d0 */
> +	GUID_INIT(0x5025030f, 0x842f, 0x4ab4,
> +		  0xa5, 0x61, 0x99, 0xa5, 0x18, 0x97, 0x62, 0xd0),
>  };
>  
>  /* ACPI _DSD data subnodes GUID: dbb8e3e6-5886-4ba6-8795-1319f52a966b */
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index e2bacd369a88..a3d3a82b0437 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
>   * Copyright (c) 2011-2014, Intel Corporation.
>   */
>  
> +#include <linux/acpi.h>
>  #include <linux/aer.h>
>  #include <linux/async.h>
>  #include <linux/blkdev.h>
> @@ -94,6 +95,10 @@ static unsigned int poll_queues;
>  module_param_cb(poll_queues, &io_queue_count_ops, &poll_queues, 0644);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(poll_queues, "Number of queues to use for polled IO.");
>  
> +static bool noacpi;
> +module_param(noacpi, bool, 0444);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(noacpi, "disable acpi bios quirks");
> +
>  struct nvme_dev;
>  struct nvme_queue;
>  
> @@ -2757,6 +2762,46 @@ static unsigned long check_vendor_combination_bug(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static bool nvme_acpi_storage_d3(struct pci_dev *dev)
> +{
> +	const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode;
> +	struct acpi_device *adev;
> +	struct pci_dev *root;
> +	acpi_handle handle;
> +	acpi_status status;
> +	bool ret = false;
> +	u8 val;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Look for _DSD property specifying that the storage device on
> +	 * the port must use D3 to support deep platform power savings during
> +	 * suspend-to-idle
> +	 */
> +	root = pcie_find_root_port(dev);
> +	if (!root)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	adev = ACPI_COMPANION(&root->dev);
> +	if (!adev)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	status = acpi_get_handle(adev->handle, "PXSX", &handle);
> +	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	adev = acpi_bus_get_acpi_device(handle);
> +	if (!adev)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	fwnode = acpi_fwnode_handle(adev);
> +	if (!fwnode_property_read_u8(fwnode, "StorageD3Enable", &val))
> +		ret = (val == 1);
> +
> +	acpi_bus_put_acpi_device(adev);
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}

Doesn't this need a CONFIG_ACPI of some sort?  Or are all these calls
properly stubbed out?



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