Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI/portdrv: Allow DPC if the OS controls AER natively.

Bjorn Helgaas
2024-02-21T23:33:27Z

[+cc Mahesh, Oliver, linuxppc-dev, since I mentioned powerpc below.
Probably not of interest since this is about the ACPI EDR feature, but
just FYI]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 05:11:04PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 09:59:21AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 06:37:48PM -0800, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan wrote:
> > > On 1/22/24 11:32 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 05:15:08PM -0700, Matthew W Carlis wrote:
> > > >> A small part is probably historical; we've been using DPC on PCIe
> > > >> switches since before there was any EDR support in the kernel. It
> > > >> looks like there was a PCIe DPC ECN as early as Feb 2012, but this
> > > >> EDR/DPC fw ECN didn't come in till Jan 2019 & kernel support for ECN
> > > >> was even later. Its not immediately clear I would want to use EDR in
> > > >> my newer architecures & then there are also the older architecures
> > > >> still requiring support. When I submitted this patch I came at it
> > > >> with the approach of trying to keep the old behavior & still support
> > > >> the newer EDR behavior. Bjorns patch from Dec 28 2023 would seem to
> > > >> change the behavior for both root ports & switch ports, requiring
> > > >> them to set _OSC Control Field bit 7 (DPC) and _OSC Support Field
> > > >> bit 7 (EDR) or a kernel command line value. I think no matter what,
> > > >> we want to ensure that PCIe Root Ports and PCIe switches arrive at
> > > >> the same policy here.
> > > > Is there an approved DPC ECN to the PCI Firmware spec that adds DPC
> > > > control negotiation, but does *not* add the EDR requirement?
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking at
> > > > https://members.pcisig.com/wg/PCI-SIG/document/previewpdf/12888, which
> > > > seems to be the final "Downstream Port Containment Related
> > > > Enhancements" ECN, which is dated 1/28/2019 and applies to the PCI
> > > > Firmware spec r3.2.
> > > >
> > > > It adds bit 7, "PCI Express Downstream Port Containment Configuration
> > > > control", to the passed-in _OSC Control field, which indicates that
> > > > the OS supports both "native OS control and firmware ownership models
> > > > (i.e. Error Disconnect Recover notification) of Downstream Port
> > > > Containment."
> > > >
> > > > It also adds the dependency that "If the OS sets bit 7 of the Control
> > > > field, it must set bit 7 of the Support field, indicating support for
> > > > the Error Disconnect Recover event."
> > > >
> > > > So I'm trying to figure out if the "support DPC but not EDR" situation
> > > > was ever a valid place to be. Maybe it's a mistake to have separate
> > > > CONFIG_PCIE_DPC and CONFIG_PCIE_EDR options.
> > >
> > > My understanding is also similar. I have raised the same point in
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/3c02a6d6-917e-486c-ad41-bdf176639ff2@linux.intel.com/
> >
> > Ah, sorry, I missed that.
> >
> > > IMO, we don't need a separate config for EDR. I don't think user can
> > > gain anything with disabling EDR and enabling DPC. As long as
> > > firmware does not user EDR support, just compiling the code should
> > > be harmless.
> > >
> > > So we can either remove it, or select it by default if user selects
> > > DPC config.
> > >
> > > > CONFIG_PCIE_EDR depends on CONFIG_ACPI, so the situation is a little
> > > > bit murky on non-ACPI systems that support DPC.
> > >
> > > If we are going to remove the EDR config, it might need #ifdef
> > > CONFIG_ACPI changes in edr.c to not compile ACPI specific code.
> > > Alternative choice is to compile edr.c with CONFIG_ACPI.
> >
> > Right. I think we should probably remove CONFIG_PCIE_EDR completely
> > and make everything controlled by CONFIG_PCIE_DPC.
>
> In the PCI Firmware spec, r3.3, sec 4.5.1, table 4-4, the description
> of "Error Disconnect Recover Supported" hints at the possibility for
> an OS to support EDR but not DPC:
>
> In the context of PCIe, support for Error Disconnect Recover implies
> that the operating system will invalidate the software state
> associated with child devices of the port without attempting to
> access the child device hardware. *If* the operating system supports
> Downstream Port Containment (DPC), ..., the operating system shall
> attempt to recover the child devices if the port implements the
> Downstream Port Containment Extended Capability.
>
> On the other hand, sec 4.6.12 and the implementation note there with
> the EDR flow seem to assume the OS *does* support DPC and can clear
> error status and bring ports out of DPC even if the OS hasn't been
> granted control of DPC.
>
> EDR is an ACPI feature, and I guess it might be theoretically possible
> to use EDR on an ACPI system with some non-DPC error containment
> feature like powerpc EEH. But obviously powerpc doesn't use ACPI, and
> a hypothetical ACPI system with non-DPC error containment would have
> to add support for that containment in edr_handle_event().
>
> So while I'm not 100% sure that making CONFIG_PCIE_DPC control both
> DPC and EDR is completely correct, I guess for now I still think using
> CONFIG_PCIE_DPC for both DPC and EDR seems like a reasonable plan
> because we have no support for EDR *without* DPC.
>
> Bjorn