Re: [PATCH] drm/msm/a6xx: fix for kernels without CONFIG_NVMEM

[Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 4:28 AM Akhil P Oommen <akhilpo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> On 2/18/2021 2:05 AM, Jonathan Marek wrote:
> > On 2/17/21 3:18 PM, Rob Clark wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:08 AM Jordan Crouse
> >> <jcrouse@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:14:16PM +0530, Akhil P Oommen wrote:
> >>>> On 2/17/2021 8:36 AM, Rob Clark wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:10 PM Jonathan Marek <jonathan@marek.ca>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ignore nvmem_cell_get() EOPNOTSUPP error in the same way as a
> >>>>>> ENOENT error,
> >>>>>> to fix the case where the kernel was compiled without CONFIG_NVMEM.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Fixes: fe7952c629da ("drm/msm: Add speed-bin support to a618 gpu")
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Marek <jonathan@marek.ca>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c | 6 +++---
> >>>>>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
> >>>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
> >>>>>> index ba8e9d3cf0fe..7fe5d97606aa 100644
> >>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
> >>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
> >>>>>> @@ -1356,10 +1356,10 @@ static int a6xx_set_supported_hw(struct
> >>>>>> device *dev, struct a6xx_gpu *a6xx_gpu,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>          cell = nvmem_cell_get(dev, "speed_bin");
> >>>>>>          /*
> >>>>>> -        * -ENOENT means that the platform doesn't support
> >>>>>> speedbin which is
> >>>>>> -        * fine
> >>>>>> +        * -ENOENT means no speed bin in device tree,
> >>>>>> +        * -EOPNOTSUPP means kernel was built without CONFIG_NVMEM
> >>>>>
> >>>>> very minor nit, it would be nice to at least preserve the gist of the
> >>>>> "which is fine" (ie. some variation of "this is an optional thing and
> >>>>> things won't catch fire without it" ;-))
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (which is, I believe, is true, hopefully Akhil could confirm.. if not
> >>>>> we should have a harder dependency on CONFIG_NVMEM..)
> >>>> IIRC, if the gpu opp table in the DT uses the 'opp-supported-hw'
> >>>> property,
> >>>> we will see some error during boot up if we don't call
> >>>> dev_pm_opp_set_supported_hw(). So calling "nvmem_cell_get(dev,
> >>>> "speed_bin")"
> >>>> is a way to test this.
> >>>>
> >>>> If there is no other harm, we can put a hard dependency on
> >>>> CONFIG_NVMEM.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure if we want to go this far given the squishiness about
> >>> module
> >>> dependencies. As far as I know we are the only driver that uses this
> >>> seriously
> >>> on QCOM SoCs and this is only needed for certain targets. I don't
> >>> know if we
> >>> want to force every target to build NVMEM and QFPROM on our behalf.
> >>> But maybe
> >>> I'm just saying that because Kconfig dependencies tend to break my
> >>> brain (and
> >>> then Arnd has to send a patch to fix it).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hmm, good point.. looks like CONFIG_NVMEM itself doesn't have any
> >> other dependencies, so I suppose it wouldn't be the end of the world
> >> to select that.. but I guess we don't want to require QFPROM
> >>
> >> I guess at the end of the day, what is the failure mode if you have a
> >> speed-bin device, but your kernel config misses QFPROM (and possibly
> >> NVMEM)?  If the result is just not having the highest clk rate(s)
>
> Atleast on sc7180's gpu, using an unsupported FMAX breaks gmu. It won't
> be very obvious what went wrong when this happens!

Ugg, ok..

I suppose we could select NVMEM, but not QFPROM, and then the case
where QFPROM is not enabled on platforms that have the speed-bin field
in DT will fail gracefully and all other platforms would continue on
happily?

BR,
-R

>
> >> available, that isn't the end of the world.  But if it makes things
> >> not-work, that is sub-optimal.  Generally, especially on ARM, kconfig
> >> seems to be way harder than it should be to build a kernel that works,
> >> if we could somehow not add to that problem (for both people with a6xx
> >> and older gens) that would be nice ;-)
> >>
> >
> > There is a "imply" kconfig option which solves exactly this problem.
> > (you would "imply NVMEM" instead of "select NVMEM". then it would be
> > possible to disable NVMEM but it would get enabled by default)
> >
> >> BR,
> >> -R
> >>
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