[PATCH] nvme-pci: Fix the instructions for disabling power management

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Wed Jul 10 16:18:05 PDT 2024


pcie_aspm=off tells the kernel not to modify the ASPM configuration. This
setting does not guarantee that ASPM (Active State Power Management) is
disabled. pcie_port_pm=off disables power management for all PCIe ports.

This patch has been tested on a workstation with a Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus
NVMe SSD.

Fixes: 4641a8e6e145 ("nvme-pci: add trouble shooting steps for timeouts")
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 102a9fb0c65f..358822ea40e7 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ static void nvme_warn_reset(struct nvme_dev *dev, u32 csts)
 	dev_warn(dev->ctrl.device,
 		 "Does your device have a faulty power saving mode enabled?\n");
 	dev_warn(dev->ctrl.device,
-		 "Try \"nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off\" and report a bug\n");
+		 "Try \"nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_port_pm=off\" and report a bug\n");
 }
 
 static enum blk_eh_timer_return nvme_timeout(struct request *req)



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