[RFC 0/3] vfio/pci: Enable runtime power management support

abhsahu
2021-11-15T13:37:07Z

From: Abhishek Sahu <abhsahu@nvidia.com>

Currently, there is very limited power management support available
in the upstream vfio-pci driver. If there is no user of vfio-pci device,
then it will be moved into D3Hot state. Similarly, if we enable the
runtime power management for vfio-pci device in the guest OS, then the
device is being runtime suspended (for linux guest OS) and the PCI
device will be put into D3hot state (in function
vfio_pm_config_write()). If the D3cold state can be used instead of
D3hot, then it will help in saving maximum power. The D3cold state can't
be possible with native PCI PM. It requires interaction with platform
firmware which is system-specific. To go into low power states
(including D3cold), the runtime PM framework can be used which
internally interacts with PCI and platform firmware and puts the device
into the lowest possible D-States. This patch series registers the
vfio-pci driver with runtime PM framework and uses the same for moving
the physical PCI device to go into the low power state.

The current PM support was added with commit 6eb7018705de ("vfio-pci:
Move idle devices to D3hot power state") where following point was
mentioned regarding D3cold state.

"It's tempting to try to use D3cold, but we have no reason to inhibit
hotplug of idle devices and we might get into a loop of having the
device disappear before we have a chance to try to use it."

With the runtime PM, if the user want to prevent going into D3cold then
/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../d3cold_allowed can be set to 0 for the
devices where the above functionality is required instead of
disallowing the D3cold state for all the cases.

Abhishek Sahu (3):
vfio/pci: register vfio-pci driver with runtime PM framework
vfio/pci: virtualize PME related registers bits and initialize to zero
vfio/pci: use runtime PM for vfio-device into low power state

drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 3 +
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_config.c | 210 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c | 166 ++++++++++++-----------
include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h | 7 +-
4 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)

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