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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] PCI: dra7xx: Fix reset behaviour
On Tuesday 22 June 2021 19:27:37 Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi Luca, Pali,
>
> On 22/06/21 7:01 pm, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 22/06/21 14:16, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 22 June 2021 12:56:04 Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> >>> [Adding Linus for GPIO discussion, thread:
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210531090540.2663171-1-luca@lucaceresoli.net]
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:06:27PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >>>> Hello!
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tuesday 22 June 2021 12:57:22 Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> >>>>> Nothing happened after a few weeks... I understand that knowing the
> >>>>> correct reset timings is relevant, but unfortunately I cannot help much
> >>>>> in finding out the correct values.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> However I'm wondering what should happen to this patch. It *does* fix a
> >>>>> real bug, but potentially with an incorrect or non-optimal usleep range.
> >>>>> Do we really want to ignore a bugfix because we are not sure about how
> >>>>> long this delay should be?
> >>>>
> >>>> As there is no better solution right now, I'm fine with your patch. But
> >>>> patch needs to be approved by Lorenzo, so please wait for his final
> >>>> answer.
> >>>
> >>> I am not a GPIO expert and I have a feeling this is platform specific
> >>> beyond what the PCI specification can actually define architecturally.
> >>
> >> In my opinion timeout is not platform specific as I wrote in email:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210310110535.zh4pnn4vpmvzwl5q@pali/
> >>
> >> My experiments already proved that some PCIe cards needs to be in reset
> >> state for some minimal time otherwise they cannot be enumerated. And it
> >> does not matter to which platform you connect those (endpoint) cards.
> >>
> >> I do not think that timeout itself is platform specific. GPIO controls
> >> PERST# pin and therefore specified sleep value directly drives how long
> >> is card on the other end of PCIe slot in Warm Reset state. PCIe CEM spec
> >> directly says that PERST# signal controls PCIe Warm Reset.
> >>
> >> What is here platform specific thing is that PERST# signal is controlled
> >> by GPIO. But value of signal (high / low) and how long is in signal in
> >> which state for me sounds like not an platform specific thing, but as
> >> PCIe / CEM related.
> >
> > That's exactly my understanding of this matter. At least for the dra7xx
> > controller it works exactly like this, PERSTn# is nothing but a GPIO
> > output from the SoC that drives the PERSTn# input of the external chip
> > without affecting the controller directly.
> >
>
> While the patch itself is correct, this kind-of changes the behavior on
> already upstreamed platforms. Previously the driver expected #PERST to
> be asserted be external means (or default power-up state) and only takes
> care of de-asserting the #PERST line.
>
> There are 2 platforms that will be impacted due to this change
> 1) arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-beagle-x15-common.dtsi (has an inverter on
> GPIO line)
> 2) arch/arm/boot/dts/am571x-idk.dts (directly connected to #PERST)
>
> For 1), gpiod_set_value(reset, 0) will assert the PERST line due to the
> inverter (and GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW)
> For 2), gpiod_set_value(reset, 0) will assert the PERST line because we
> have GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH

Ou! This is a problem in DT. It needs to be defined in a way that state
is same for every DTS device which uses this driver.

> So this patch should have to be accompanied with DT changes (and this
> patch also breaks old DT compatibility).

This of course needs to be fixed somehow prior accepting this patch. It
is blocker as in current state it breaks some platforms.

>
> Thanks
> Kishon

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