Re: [PATCH] PCI: dw-rockchip: Disable L1 substates

[Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 02:31:43PM +0200, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> The L1 substates support requires additional steps to work, see e.g.
> section '11.6.6.4 L1 Substate' in the RK3588 TRM V1.0.
> 
> These steps are currently missing from the driver.
> 
> While this has always been a problem when using e.g.
> CONFIG_PCIEASPM_POWER_SUPERSAVE=y, the problem became more apparent after
> commit f3ac2ff14834 ("PCI/ASPM: Enable all ClockPM and ASPM states for
> devicetree platforms"), which enabled ASPM also for
> CONFIG_PCIEASPM_DEFAULT=y.
> 
> Disable L1 substates until proper support is added.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 0e898eb8df4e ("PCI: rockchip-dwc: Add Rockchip RK356X host controller driver")
> Fixes: f3ac2ff14834 ("PCI/ASPM: Enable all ClockPM and ASPM states for devicetree platforms")
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-dw-rockchip.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-dw-rockchip.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-dw-rockchip.c
> index 3e2752c7dd09..28e0fffe2542 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-dw-rockchip.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-dw-rockchip.c
> @@ -200,6 +200,26 @@ static bool rockchip_pcie_link_up(struct dw_pcie *pci)
>  	return FIELD_GET(PCIE_LINKUP_MASK, val) == PCIE_LINKUP;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * See e.g. section '11.6.6.4 L1 Substate' in the RK3588 TRM V1.0 for the steps
> + * needed to support L1 substates. Currently, not a single rockchip platform
> + * performs these steps, so disable L1 substates until there is proper support.
> + */
> +static void rockchip_pcie_disable_l1sub(struct dw_pcie *pci)
> +{
> +	u32 cap, l1subcap;
> +
> +	cap = dw_pcie_find_ext_capability(pci, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_L1SS);
> +	if (cap) {
> +		l1subcap = dw_pcie_readl_dbi(pci, cap + PCI_L1SS_CAP);
> +		l1subcap &= ~(PCI_L1SS_CAP_L1_PM_SS | PCI_L1SS_CAP_ASPM_L1_1 |
> +			      PCI_L1SS_CAP_ASPM_L1_2 | PCI_L1SS_CAP_PCIPM_L1_1 |
> +			      PCI_L1SS_CAP_PCIPM_L1_2);
> +		dw_pcie_writel_dbi(pci, cap + PCI_L1SS_CAP, l1subcap);
> +		l1subcap = dw_pcie_readl_dbi(pci, cap + PCI_L1SS_CAP);

Sorry, this extra dw_pcie_readl_dbi() was left over from debugging.
Tell me if I should respin or if you can fix up when applying.

I've verified that the patch works using an NVMe drive on v6.18-rc1,
which is working after this patch, but was not working before this patch.


Kind regards,
Niklas