From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B84C35254 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8875420801 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:45:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1581939919; bh=zO5Udwwv9Ys92RX9T3qjhKgUMcbRBeZRM6/lvx7ptII=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=qF8ET6iqbg4jnQDYNB1OP96ZXfGS5/pdmVAW13/CcdeAMO5DRTSDmDHOBt3pCd87q OR8rCMWkth+lX5n++90WJmND/oEnS2m6LDKxIy/TStERFOgu3q8PLPvWKu5wzKSmrk nAIgeQEYWujZ/EDVtrHclXYCUSWJSCT2O5RJ+d1Y= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728650AbgBQLpT (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:45:19 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:49712 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728272AbgBQLpS (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:45:18 -0500 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 18926206F4; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:45:16 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1581939917; bh=zO5Udwwv9Ys92RX9T3qjhKgUMcbRBeZRM6/lvx7ptII=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=AzvzfXY28ydxqigdCRiIzStIgFcQIJmRtvivUVuRXF+Zmx4oTcTA1CEC0nEUTtdvl IKAxHRuR9106n+epZ3vTD/rCDHb9ozJVqZIzwcWTGt4X3u+0Rn282PFthTVXcW8v5S gqTEjt3GRaVBlHtqjV/5jdMxiMfCBKBzzmBdaox4= Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:45:15 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Manivannan Sadhasivam Cc: arnd@arndb.de, smohanad@codeaurora.org, jhugo@codeaurora.org, kvalo@codeaurora.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, hemantk@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for registering MHI controllers Message-ID: <20200217114515.GA154666@kroah.com> References: <20200131135009.31477-1-manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> <20200131135009.31477-3-manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> <20200206165755.GB3894455@kroah.com> <20200211184130.GA11908@Mani-XPS-13-9360> <20200211192055.GA1962867@kroah.com> <20200213152013.GB15010@mani> <20200213153418.GA3623121@kroah.com> <20200213154809.GA26953@mani> <20200213155302.GA3635465@kroah.com> <20200217052743.GA4809@Mani-XPS-13-9360> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200217052743.GA4809@Mani-XPS-13-9360> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:57:43AM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 07:53:02AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 09:18:09PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 07:34:18AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 08:50:13PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:20:55AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:11:30AM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 05:57:55PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 07:19:55PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- /dev/null > > > > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/bus/mhi/core/init.c > > > > > > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,407 @@ > > > > > > > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > > > > > > > > > +/* > > > > > > > > > + * Copyright (c) 2018-2020, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved. > > > > > > > > > + * > > > > > > > > > + */ > > > > > > > > > + > > > > > > > > > +#define dev_fmt(fmt) "MHI: " fmt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This should not be needed, right? The bus/device name should give you > > > > > > > > all you need here from what I can tell. So why is this needed? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The log will have only the device name as like PCI-E. But that won't specify > > > > > > > where the error is coming from. Having "MHI" prefix helps the users to > > > > > > > quickly identify that the error is coming from MHI stack. > > > > > > > > > > > > If the driver binds properly to the device, the name of the driver will > > > > > > be there in the message, so I suggest using that please. > > > > > > > > > > > > No need for this prefix... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So the driver name will be in the log but that won't help identifying where > > > > > the log is coming from. This is more important for MHI since it reuses the > > > > > `struct device` of the transport device like PCI-E. For instance, below is > > > > > the log without MHI prefix: > > > > > > > > > > [ 47.355582] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Requested to power on > > > > > [ 47.355724] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Power on setup success > > > > > > > > > > As you can see, this gives the assumption that the log is coming from the > > > > > ath11k_pci driver. But the reality is, it is coming from MHI bus. > > > > > > > > Then you should NOT be trying to "reuse" a struct device. > > > > > > > > > With the prefix added, we will get below: > > > > > > > > > > [ 47.355582] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: MHI: Requested to power on > > > > > [ 47.355724] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: MHI: Power on setup success > > > > > > > > > > IMO, the prefix will give users a clear idea of logs and that will be very > > > > > useful for debugging. > > > > > > > > > > Hope this clarifies. > > > > > > > > Don't try to reuse struct devices, if you are a bus, have your own > > > > devices as that's the correct way to do things. > > > > > > > > > > I assumed that the buses relying on a different physical interface for the > > > actual communication can reuse the `struct device`. I can see that the MOXTET > > > bus driver already doing it. It reuses the `struct device` of SPI. > > > > How can you reuse anything? > > > > > And this assumption has deep rooted in MHI bus design. > > > > Maybe I do not understand what this is at all, but a device can only be > > on one "bus" at a time. How is that being broken here? > > > > Let me share some insight on how it is being used: > > The MHI bus sits on top of the actual physical bus like PCI-E and requires > the physical bus for doing activities like allocating I/O virtual address, > runtime PM etc... The part which gets tied to the PCI-E from MHI is called MHI > controller driver. This MHI controller driver is also the actual PCI-E driver > managing the device. > > For instance, we have QCA6390 PCI-E WLAN device. For this device, there is a > ath11k PCI-E driver and the same driver also registers as a MHI controller and > acts as a MHI controller driver. This is where I referred to reusing the PCI-E > struct device. It's not that MHI bus itself is reusing the PCI-E struct device > but we need the PCI-E device pointer to do above mentioned IOVA, PM operations > in some places. One of the usage is below: > > ``` > void *buf = dma_alloc_coherent(mhi_cntrl->dev, size, dma_handle, gfp); > ``` > > There was some discussion about it here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/27/21 > > The MHI bus itself has the struct device and it is the child of the physical > bus (PCI-E in this case). > > Now coming to your actual question of why using a custom "MHI" prefix for > dev_ APIs. I agree that if we use the struct device of MHI bus it is not at all > needed. The fact that we are using "mhi_cntrl->dev" (which points to PCI-E dev) > is what confusing and it can be avoided. You should also rename "dev" there, as that is really a "pci device". So use the real pci device and name it as "parent_pci" or something like that, so we know just by looking at it as to what it really is. Especially as traditionally "->dev" is the device structure for _this_ device, not another one. thanks, greg k-h