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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: keystone: Fix race condition when initializing PHYs
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From:   Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@ti.com>
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Kindly ignore this patch. The reference to the phy(s) need to be released in the
error path as well which I have missed in this patch. I will address that and
post the v2 patch.

On 26/09/23 11:12, Siddharth Vadapalli wrote:
> The PCI driver invokes the PHY APIs using the ks_pcie_enable_phy()
> function. The PHY in this case is the Serdes. It is possible that the
> PCI instance is configured for 2 lane operation across two different
> Serdes instances, using 1 lane of each Serdes. In such a configuration,
> if the reference clock for one Serdes is provided by the other Serdes,
> it results in a race condition. After the Serdes providing the reference
> clock is initialized by the PCI driver by invoking its PHY APIs, it is
> not guaranteed that this Serdes remains powered on long enough for the
> PHY APIs based initialization of the dependent Serdes. In such cases,
> the PLL of the dependent Serdes fails to lock due to the absence of the
> reference clock from the former Serdes which has been powered off by the
> PM Core.
> 
> Fix this by obtaining reference to the PHYs before invoking the PHY
> initialization APIs and releasing reference after the initialization is
> complete.
> 
> Fixes: 49229238ab47 ("PCI: keystone: Cleanup PHY handling")
> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@ti.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-keystone.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-keystone.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-keystone.c
> index 49aea6ce3e87..526b68100a4a 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-keystone.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-keystone.c
> @@ -1218,12 +1218,20 @@ static int __init ks_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		goto err_link;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Obtain reference(s) to the phy(s) */
> +	for (i = 0; i < num_lanes; i++)
> +		phy_pm_runtime_get_sync(ks_pcie->phy[i]);
> +
>  	ret = ks_pcie_enable_phy(ks_pcie);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "failed to enable phy\n");
>  		goto err_link;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Release reference(s) to the phy(s) */
> +	for (i = 0; i < num_lanes; i++)
> +		phy_pm_runtime_put_sync(ks_pcie->phy[i]);
> +
>  	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ks_pcie);
>  	pm_runtime_enable(dev);
>  	ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(dev);

-- 
Regards,
Siddharth.