Re: [PATCH v11 01/11] phy: HiSilicon: Add driver for Kirin 970 PCIe PHY

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:40:27 +0530
Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> escreveu:

> On 18-08-21, 11:01, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Hi Vinod,
> > 
> > Em Tue, 17 Aug 2021 16:12:37 +0530
> > Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> escreveu:
> >   
> > > > +	/* FIXME: calling it causes an Asynchronous SError interrupt */
> > > > +//	kirin_pcie_clk_ctrl(phy, false);    
> > > 
> > > when will you fix the fixme and pls remove the deadcode  
> > 
> > Working with clocks on this SoC is very tricky: there are lots of clock
> > lines (~70) that are critical for this device to work. Such lines are
> > enabled via the Device's firmware, and are supposed to be always
> > powered. Powering off such clock lines cause a SError.
> > 
> > Most clocks on this device are managed by the clk-hikey3670 driver.
> > At the current state of clk-hi3670, the only way for HiKey 970
> > to even boot is to add:
> > 
> > 	clk_ignore_unused=true
> > 
> > as a Kernel boot parameter. That is the solution given by the downstream
> > official distributions for HiKey970 at 96boards.
> > 
> > The fix is to flag the critical clocks with CLK_IS_CRITICAL at the
> > clk-hi3670 driver, but finding the right clock set has been a challenge.
> > 
> > I spent the last couple of weeks trying to identify the critical ones,
> > as I'm aiming to be able to use a Kernel built with a default arm64
> > one of my goals is to have this device working fine with a
> > "make defconfig" Kernel.
> > 
> > So, I added this patch:
> > 
> > 	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2d2de5e902ced072bcfd5e5311d6b10326b9245b.1627041240.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org/
> > 
> > to my tree (which reduces the set of clocks using CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
> > from 308 to 163 clocks). Than I ran script that was dropping the
> > flag one by one, boots the new Kernel and do a sanity check. When it 
> > fails to boot, I manually dropped the patch, and re-run the script
> > to test the remaining clocks. After a couple of weeks, I reached a patch
> > with 78 clock lines that seemed critical, but the resulting patch was
> > not stable, as, depending on the day I boot the Kernel with such patch,
> > it crashes with SError in a couple of seconds after booting, or 
> > cause the Ethernet firmware to not load.
> > 
> > I intend to keep trying to find the clock lines that can't be disabled,
> > but this is very time consuming, as I couldn't find any documentation
> > about that. So, it has to be done empirically.
> > 
> > -
> > 
> > In any case, fixing it doesn't sound a critical issue for the PHY
> > driver. I mean, right now, this patchset allows removing and 
> > re-inseting the PCIe driver, which is already an improvement over the
> > original upstream driver, which was missing the power-off logic for
> > Kirin 960.
> > 
> > With this patchset, both power-off/power-on logic for both HiKey960
> > (where the PHY is inside the pcie-kirin driver) and for HiKey970,
> > which uses this PHY driver. On both devices, I tested an endless loop 
> > with rmmod/modprobe for the PCIe.
> > 
> > Besides that, in practice, removing PCIe in runtime is something that
> > people usually don't do.
> > 
> > So, while it would be cool to balance the clock disable logic,
> > I don't think this is a critical issue in this particular case.  
> 
> Okay sounds fair to me, I think fixme should be left but the c99 style
> code commented out can be removed

Agreed. I'll replace it with:

+       /*
+        * FIXME: The enabled clocks should be disabled here by calling
+        * kirin_pcie_clk_ctrl(phy, false);
+        * However, some clocks used at Kirin 970 should be marked as
+        * CLK_IS_CRITICAL at clk-hi3670 driver, as powering such clocks off
+        * cause an Asynchronous SError interrupt, which produces panic().
+        * While clk-hi3670 is not fixed, we cannot risk disabling clocks here.
+        */

Thanks,
Mauro