Re: [PATCH 4/12] PCI PM: Make it possible to force using INTx for PCIe PME signaling

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:02:22 +0100
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> Apparently, some machines may have problems with PCI run-time power
> management if MSIs are used for the hative PCIe PME signaling.  In
> particular, on the MSI Wind U-100 PCIe PME interrupts are not
> generated by a PCIe root port after a resume from suspend to RAM, if
> the system wake-up was triggered by a PME from the device attached to
> this port.  [It doesn't help to free the interrupt on suspend and
> request it back on resume, even if that is done along with disabling
> the MSI and re-enabling it, respectively.]  However, if INTx
> interrupts are used for this purpose on the same machine, everything
> works just fine.
> 
> For this reason, add a kernel command line switch allowing one to
> request that MSIs be not used for the native PCIe PME signaling,
> introduce a DMI table allowing us to blacklist machines that need
> this switch to be set by default and put the MSI Wind U-100 into this
> table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> ---

This scares me a little... seems like we're not restoring some state on
resume that's needed for MSIs to work?  Looks fine though.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center