Re: [PATCH] ARM: tegra: disable LP2 cpuidle state if PCIe is enabled

[Stephen Warren <swarren-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>]

On 05/07/2013 07:08 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 03:48:49PM +0300, Peter De Schrijver
> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:39:04PM +0200, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
>>> 
>>> Tegra20 HW appears to have a bug such that PCIe device
>>> interrupts, whether they are legacy IRQs or MSI, are lost when
>>> LP2 is enabled. To work around this, simply disable LP2 if the
>>> PCI driver and DT node are both enabled.
>>> 
>> 
>> Wouldn't it make more sense to disable LP2 when we actually
>> detect a PCIe device?

I did consider that, but rejected the idea for the reasons Thierry
mentioned.

> I'm not sure a patch to do so would be as simple as this one. For
> one, the cpuidle framework will already have been initialized when
> PCIe enumeration completes. So some way of permanently disabling
> one state at runtime would be required and I don't think cpuidle
> provides an API to do so. I know the latter isn't really a good
> reason, but I don't think adding that kind of API just because
> Tegra20 seems to have a bug would be appropriate.

There is a way to do this, since it can be done via sysfs, but I don't
think it's exposed as an API from cpuidle. I agree it seems a little
silly to expose it just to support this HW bug though.

> Furthermore, it is quite likely that the PCIe controller will only
> be enabled in DT for devices that actually have a PCIe device
> hooked up.

But this was my main reasoning.