Re: [PATCH V2 7/8] spi: spi-qcom-qspi: Add interconnect support

[Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:48 AM Akash Asthana <akashast@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Evan,
>
> On 3/18/2020 12:38 AM, Evan Green wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 5:13 AM Akash Asthana <akashast@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >> Hi Matthias,
> >>
> >> On 3/14/2020 6:28 AM, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 06:42:13PM +0530, Akash Asthana wrote:
> >>>> Get the interconnect paths for QSPI device and vote according to the
> >>>> current bus speed of the driver.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Akash Asthana <akashast@codeaurora.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    - As per Bjorn's comment, introduced and using devm_of_icc_get API for getting
> >>>>      path handle
> >>>>    - As per Matthias comment, added error handling for icc_set_bw call
> >>>>
> >>>>    drivers/spi/spi-qcom-qspi.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >>>>    1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-qcom-qspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-qcom-qspi.c
> >>>> index 3c4f83b..ad48f43 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-qcom-qspi.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-qcom-qspi.c
> >>>> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
> >>>>    // Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Linux foundation. All rights reserved.
> >>>>
> >>>>    #include <linux/clk.h>
> >>>> +#include <linux/interconnect.h>
> >>>>    #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> >>>>    #include <linux/io.h>
> >>>>    #include <linux/module.h>
> >>>> @@ -139,7 +140,10 @@ struct qcom_qspi {
> >>>>       struct device *dev;
> >>>>       struct clk_bulk_data *clks;
> >>>>       struct qspi_xfer xfer;
> >>>> -    /* Lock to protect xfer and IRQ accessed registers */
> >>>> +    struct icc_path *icc_path_cpu_to_qspi;
> >>>> +    unsigned int avg_bw_cpu;
> >>>> +    unsigned int peak_bw_cpu;
> >>> This triplet is a recurring pattern, and is probably not limited to geni SE/QSPI.
> >>> On https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11436889/#23221925 I suggested the creation
> >>> of a geni SE specific struct, however adding a generic convenience struct to
> >>> 'linux/interconnect.h' might be the better solution:
> >>>
> >>> struct icc_client {
> >>>        struct icc_path *path;
> >>>        unsigned int avg_bw;
> >>>        unsigned int peak_bw;
> >>> };
> >>>
> >>> I'm sure there are better names for it, but this would be the idea.
> >> Yeah, I think introducing this to ICC header would be better solution.
> > +Georgi
> >
> > I'm not as convinced this structure is generally useful and belongs in
> > the interconnect core. The thing that strikes me as weird with putting
> > it in the core is now we're saving these values both inside and
> > outside the interconnect core.
> IIUC, you meant to say struct icc_req(inside icc_path) will be saving
> avg_bw and peak_bw so no need to save it outside icc_path?

Correct, it seems silly to store the same set of values twice in the
framework, but with different semantics about who's watching it.
-Evan