[PATCH v3 2/2] PCI: rockchip-host: comment danger of 5.0 GT/s speed

Geraldo Nascimento geraldogabriel at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 14:27:44 PST 2026


According to Rockchip sources, there is grave danger in enabling 5.0
GT/s speed for this core. Add a comment documenting this risk of
"catastrophic failure" and discouraging end-users from forcing
higher speed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ffd05070-9879-4468-94e3-b88968b4c21b@rock-chips.com/
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org>
Reported-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin at rock-chips.com>
Reviewed-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Geraldo Nascimento <geraldogabriel at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c
index ee1822ca01db..4faf3e29b7d5 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c
@@ -332,6 +332,10 @@ static int rockchip_pcie_host_init_port(struct rockchip_pcie *rockchip)
 		/*
 		 * Enable retrain for gen2. This should be configured only after
 		 * gen1 finished.
+		 *
+		 * Dangerous and may lead to "catastrophic failure", with data loss
+		 * or worse!
+		 *
 		 */
 		status = rockchip_pcie_read(rockchip, PCIE_RC_CONFIG_CR + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2);
 		status &= ~PCI_EXP_LNKCTL2_TLS;
-- 
2.52.0




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