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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Make fw_devlink=on more forgiving
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:38:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXduvBqjAqraXkEKErNJFyN6JNq5wqagc4yHHPpH5SPGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGETcx-668+uGigaOMcsvv00mo6o_eGPcH0YyD28OCVEyVbw+w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Saravana,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 4:00 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 5:00 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >       - I2C on R-Car Gen3 does not seem to use DMA, according to
> >         /sys/kernel/debug/dmaengine/summary:
> >
> >             -dma4chan0    | e66d8000.i2c:tx
> >             -dma4chan1    | e66d8000.i2c:rx
> >             -dma5chan0    | e6510000.i2c:tx
>
> I think I need more context on the problem before I can try to fix it.
> I'm also very unfamiliar with that file. With fw_devlink=permissive,
> I2C was using DMA? If so, the next step is to see if the I2C relative
> probe order with DMA is getting changed and if so, why.

More detailed log:

    platform e66d8000.i2c: Linked as a consumer to e6150000.clock-controller
    platform e66d8000.i2c: Linked as a sync state only consumer to e6055400.gpio

Why is e66d8000.i2c not linked as a consumer to e6700000.dma-controller?

    platform e6700000.dma-controller: Linked as a consumer to
e6150000.clock-controller
    platform e66d8000.i2c: Added to deferred list
    platform e6700000.dma-controller: Added to deferred list

    bus: 'platform': driver_probe_device: matched device
e6700000.dma-controller with driver rcar-dmac
    bus: 'platform': really_probe: probing driver rcar-dmac with
device e6700000.dma-controller
    platform e6700000.dma-controller: Driver rcar-dmac requests probe deferral

    bus: 'platform': driver_probe_device: matched device e66d8000.i2c
with driver i2c-rcar
    bus: 'platform': really_probe: probing driver i2c-rcar with device
e66d8000.i2c

I2C becomes available...

    i2c-rcar e66d8000.i2c: request_channel failed for tx (-517)
    [...]

but DMA is not available yet, so the driver falls back to PIO.

    driver: 'i2c-rcar': driver_bound: bound to device 'e66d8000.i2c'
    bus: 'platform': really_probe: bound device e66d8000.i2c to driver i2c-rcar

    platform e6700000.dma-controller: Retrying from deferred list
    bus: 'platform': driver_probe_device: matched device
e6700000.dma-controller with driver rcar-dmac
    bus: 'platform': really_probe: probing driver rcar-dmac with
device e6700000.dma-controller
    platform e6700000.dma-controller: Driver rcar-dmac requests probe deferral
    platform e6700000.dma-controller: Added to deferred list
    platform e6700000.dma-controller: Retrying from deferred list
    bus: 'platform': driver_probe_device: matched device
e6700000.dma-controller with driver rcar-dmac
    bus: 'platform': really_probe: probing driver rcar-dmac with
device e6700000.dma-controller
    driver: 'rcar-dmac': driver_bound: bound to device 'e6700000.dma-controller'
    bus: 'platform': really_probe: bound device
e6700000.dma-controller to driver rcar-dmac

DMA becomes available.

Here userspace is entered. /sys/kernel/debug/dmaengine/summary shows
that the I2C controllers do not have DMA channels allocated, as the
kernel has performed no more I2C transfers after DMA became available.

Using i2cdetect shows that DMA is used, which is good:

    i2c-rcar e66d8000.i2c: got DMA channel for rx

With permissive devlinks, the clock controller consumers are not added
to the deferred probing list, and probe order is slightly different.
The I2C controllers are still probed before the DMA controllers.
But DMA becomes available a bit earlier, before the probing of the last
I2C slave driver.  Hence /sys/kernel/debug/dmaengine/summary shows that
some I2C transfers did use DMA.

So the real issue is that e66d8000.i2c not linked as a consumer to
e6700000.dma-controller.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-15 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20210205222651eucas1p28ef87073dea33c1c5224c14aa203bec5@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2021-02-05 22:26 ` [PATCH v4 0/8] Make fw_devlink=on more forgiving Saravana Kannan
2021-02-05 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 1/8] driver core: fw_devlink: Detect supplier devices that will never be added Saravana Kannan
2021-02-05 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 2/8] of: property: Don't add links to absent suppliers Saravana Kannan
2021-02-09 21:25     ` Rob Herring
2021-02-05 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 3/8] driver core: Add fw_devlink.strict kernel param Saravana Kannan
2021-02-05 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 4/8] of: property: Add fw_devlink support for optional properties Saravana Kannan
2021-02-09 21:33     ` Rob Herring
2021-02-09 21:54       ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-10  8:25         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-05 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 5/8] driver core: fw_devlink: Handle suppliers that don't use driver core Saravana Kannan
2021-02-05 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 6/8] irqdomain: Mark fwnodes when their irqdomain is added/removed Saravana Kannan
2021-02-05 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 7/8] PM: domains: Mark fwnodes when their powerdomain " Saravana Kannan
2021-02-05 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 8/8] clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider " Saravana Kannan
2021-02-08 15:38     ` Rob Herring
2021-02-08 23:34       ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-10 11:44     ` [PATCH] clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added Tudor Ambarus
2021-02-10 11:44       ` Tudor Ambarus
2021-02-11 13:00         ` Greg KH
2021-02-13  0:37           ` Stephen Boyd
     [not found]         ` <CGME20210325133159eucas1p297b769beb681743fb32d362a86cc6e3e@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2021-03-25 13:31           ` Marek Szyprowski
2021-03-25 15:47             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-03-25 18:25             ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2021-03-26 18:13               ` Stephen Boyd
2021-03-26 18:29                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-21  3:26         ` Guenter Roeck
2021-04-21  7:00           ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-10 19:13       ` Saravana Kannan
2021-03-30 15:42       ` Guenter Roeck
2021-03-30 16:26         ` Saravana Kannan
     [not found]     ` <161317679292.1254594.15797939257637374295@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com>
2021-02-14 21:15       ` [PATCH v4 8/8] clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added/removed Saravana Kannan
2021-02-06  2:45   ` [PATCH v4 0/8] Make fw_devlink=on more forgiving Saravana Kannan
2021-02-06 19:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-06 20:47     ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-08  8:40   ` Marek Szyprowski
2021-02-08 23:57     ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-10  8:19   ` Tudor.Ambarus
2021-02-10  8:54     ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-10 10:02       ` Tudor.Ambarus
2021-02-10 19:14         ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-11 13:00   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-11 13:05     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-12  2:59     ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-12  8:14       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-12 20:57         ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-15 12:38       ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2021-02-15 21:26         ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-16  8:05           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-16 18:48             ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-16 20:31               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-17 23:57                 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-25  9:21                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-15 15:16       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-15 21:57         ` Saravana Kannan
2021-02-16 12:58           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-15 11:19     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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