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Commit 2add0ec1 authored by Bjorn Helgaas's avatar Bjorn Helgaas
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PCI/ASPM: Warn when driver asks to disable ASPM, but we can't do it


Some devices have hardware problems related to using ASPM.  Drivers for
these devices use pci_disable_link_state() to prevent their device from
entering L0s or L1.  But on platforms where the OS doesn't have permission
to manage ASPM, pci_disable_link_state() doesn't actually disable ASPM.

Windows has a similar mechanism ("PciASPMOptOut"), and when the OS doesn't
have control of ASPM, it doesn't actually disable ASPM either.

This patch just adds a warning in dmesg about the fact that
pci_disable_link_state() is doing nothing.

Reported-by: default avatarEmmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>
Reference: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANUX_P3F5YhbZX3WGU-j1AGpbXb_T9Bis2ErhvKkFMtDvzatVQ@mail.gmail.com
Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57331


Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
parent de7f2b1b
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