On 29/04/2020 18:42, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> My vim3l board stubbornly refuses to play ball with a bog
> standard PCIe switch (ASM1184e), spitting all kind of errors
> ranging from link never coming up to crazy things like downstream
> ports falling off the face of the planet.
>
> Upon investigating how the PCIe RC is configured, I found the
> following nugget: the Sysnopsys DWC PCIe Reference Manual, in the
> section dedicated to the PLCR register, describes bit 7 (FAST_LINK_MODE)
> as:
>
> "Sets all internal timers to fast mode for simulation purposes."
>
> I completely understand the need for setting this bit from a simulation
> perspective, but what I have on my desk is actual silicon, which
> expects timers to have a nominal value (and I expect this is the
> case for most people).
>
> Making sure the FAST_LINK_MODE bit is cleared when configuring the RC
> solves this problem.
>
> Fixes: 9c0ef6d34fdb ("PCI: amlogic: Add the Amlogic Meson PCIe controller
> driver")
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-meson.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-meson.c
> b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-meson.c
> index 3715dceca1bf..ca59ba9e0ecd 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-meson.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-meson.c
> @@ -289,11 +289,11 @@ static void meson_pcie_init_dw(struct meson_pcie *mp)
> meson_cfg_writel(mp, val, PCIE_CFG0);
>
> val = meson_elb_readl(mp, PCIE_PORT_LINK_CTRL_OFF);
> - val &= ~LINK_CAPABLE_MASK;
> + val &= ~(LINK_CAPABLE_MASK | FAST_LINK_MODE);
> meson_elb_writel(mp, val, PCIE_PORT_LINK_CTRL_OFF);
>
> val = meson_elb_readl(mp, PCIE_PORT_LINK_CTRL_OFF);
> - val |= LINK_CAPABLE_X1 | FAST_LINK_MODE;
> + val |= LINK_CAPABLE_X1;
> meson_elb_writel(mp, val, PCIE_PORT_LINK_CTRL_OFF);
>
> val = meson_elb_readl(mp, PCIE_GEN2_CTRL_OFF);
>
I don't have HW to test on non NVMe, but I'm reading the same as you in the
DWC PCIe Reference Manual, and it seems coherent.
Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <[email protected]>
Neil
