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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: dra7xx: Fix reset behaviour
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        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
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From:   Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
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Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:08:07 +0200
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On 22/06/21 22:52, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 June 2021 19:27:37 Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> Hi Luca, Pali,
>>
>> On 22/06/21 7:01 pm, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 22/06/21 14:16, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 22 June 2021 12:56:04 Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
>>>>> [Adding Linus for GPIO discussion, thread:
>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210531090540.2663171-1-luca@lucaceresoli.net]
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:06:27PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday 22 June 2021 12:57:22 Luca Ceresoli wrote:
>>>>>>> Nothing happened after a few weeks... I understand that knowing the
>>>>>>> correct reset timings is relevant, but unfortunately I cannot help much
>>>>>>> in finding out the correct values.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However I'm wondering what should happen to this patch. It *does* fix a
>>>>>>> real bug, but potentially with an incorrect or non-optimal usleep range.
>>>>>>> Do we really want to ignore a bugfix because we are not sure about how
>>>>>>> long this delay should be?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As there is no better solution right now, I'm fine with your patch. But
>>>>>> patch needs to be approved by Lorenzo, so please wait for his final
>>>>>> answer.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not a GPIO expert and I have a feeling this is platform specific
>>>>> beyond what the PCI specification can actually define architecturally.
>>>>
>>>> In my opinion timeout is not platform specific as I wrote in email:
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210310110535.zh4pnn4vpmvzwl5q@pali/
>>>>
>>>> My experiments already proved that some PCIe cards needs to be in reset
>>>> state for some minimal time otherwise they cannot be enumerated. And it
>>>> does not matter to which platform you connect those (endpoint) cards.
>>>>
>>>> I do not think that timeout itself is platform specific. GPIO controls
>>>> PERST# pin and therefore specified sleep value directly drives how long
>>>> is card on the other end of PCIe slot in Warm Reset state. PCIe CEM spec
>>>> directly says that PERST# signal controls PCIe Warm Reset.
>>>>
>>>> What is here platform specific thing is that PERST# signal is controlled
>>>> by GPIO. But value of signal (high / low) and how long is in signal in
>>>> which state for me sounds like not an platform specific thing, but as
>>>> PCIe / CEM related.
>>>
>>> That's exactly my understanding of this matter. At least for the dra7xx
>>> controller it works exactly like this, PERSTn# is nothing but a GPIO
>>> output from the SoC that drives the PERSTn# input of the external chip
>>> without affecting the controller directly.
>>>
>>
>> While the patch itself is correct, this kind-of changes the behavior on
>> already upstreamed platforms. Previously the driver expected #PERST to
>> be asserted be external means (or default power-up state) and only takes
>> care of de-asserting the #PERST line.
>>
>> There are 2 platforms that will be impacted due to this change
>> 1) arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-beagle-x15-common.dtsi (has an inverter on
>> GPIO line)
>> 2) arch/arm/boot/dts/am571x-idk.dts (directly connected to #PERST)
>>
>> For 1), gpiod_set_value(reset, 0) will assert the PERST line due to the
>> inverter (and GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW)
>> For 2), gpiod_set_value(reset, 0) will assert the PERST line because we
>> have GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH
> 
> Ou! This is a problem in DT. It needs to be defined in a way that state
> is same for every DTS device which uses this driver.

Why? These are different boards and each specifies its own polarity.
They are already opposite to each other right now:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.13-rc7/source/arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-beagle-x15-common.dtsi#L602

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.13-rc7/source/arch/arm/boot/dts/am571x-idk.dts#L196

-- 
Luca