Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp: PCIe fixes and GICv3 ITS enable

[Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>]

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 04:37:27PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 07:24:07PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 02:10:21PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> 
> > > I think that based on the available data it's reasonable to go ahead and
> > > merge these patches. In the event that this turns out to be a
> > > configuration issue, we can just drop the 'aspm-no-l0s' properties
> > > again.
> > 
> > Well the problem is, if you are not sure, then adding the DT properties is
> > certainly not correct. As that implies a hardware defect, but it may not be.
> > So let's wait for some time to find out the actual issue.
> 
> Our devicetrees are always going to be a tentative description of the
> hardware, and this especially true for Qualcomm that don't publish any
> documentation so that people are forced to rely on informed guesses
> based on downstream devicetrees and drivers and reverse engineering.
> 
> As far as I can tell, after having spent a lot of time on this and
> checking with sources inside Qualcomm, the hardware is to blame here. If
> this turns out not to be true, we can always revise later. We do this
> all the time, as you know.
> 
> I'm all for digging further into this issue with the help of Qualcomm,
> but I don't think that should block this series as that would leave the
> link errors that we hit since 6.7 in place and effectively prevent us
> from enabling the ITS in 6.9.
> 

Sounds fair. I will report back, perhaps with a fix based on what I get to know.

But I think it is better to disable L0s in the SoC dtsi itself. That's not only
because there are patches to essentially disable L0s in 2 of the available
platforms making use of this Soc, but also you are enabling GIC ITS in the SoC
dtsi and that may affect sa8540p which is making use of this dtsi.

The users of that SoC may have not noticed the errors as you did before, but
enabling GIC ITS will certainly make the issue visible to them (more likely).

Also, if it turns out to be a hardware IP issue, then we can leave the patches
as it is, otherwise we can revert them easily.

- Mani

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