Re: [PATCH RFC] PCI/PME: fix PME runtime PM handling

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 31.12.2018 10:32, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Hi Heiner,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 12:06:14PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> I face the issue that no PME is generated if the network cable is
>> re-plugged. To explain that in a little more detail:
>> r8169 driver enters runtime suspend 10 seconds after cable is detached.
>> LinkUp detection is armed and device enters D3hot. When the cable is
>> re-plugged Linkup should generate a PME and device is resumed.
>> But system receives no PME from the device.
>>
>> Wake-on-LAN from S3 works perfectly fine and generates a PME.
>>
>> After checking the pcie pme code and some experiments I found that
>> the following fixes the issue for me. Now system receives the PME
>> and properly runtime-resumes the network device.
>>
>> But I'm no expert in PCIe and PME, therefore I'm not sure whether
>> the fix is correct. Please advise.
>>
>> Adding also Mika as author of 0e157e528604 ("PCI/PME: Implement
>> runtime PM callbacks").
> 
> The root port cannot trigger an interrupt when it is in D3 (hot or cold)
> so there needs to be a way to "wakeup" the hierarchy first which is
> typically done by using sideband signal called WAKE#. Once the hierarchy
> is brought back to communicating state the PME message is propagated to
> the root port and the interrupt triggers (now the root port is in D0).
> For some reason this does not seem to happen in your case and to
> understand why we would need to gather a bit more information.
> 
> Can you file a kernel bug about this on bugzilla.kernel.org? Then attach
> there acpidump and output of 'sudo lspci -vv'.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
Thanks Mika, that's the link to the filed bug report:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202103

Heiner