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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 04/10] PCI: dwc: ep: Fix DBI access failure for
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 02:52:16PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> The DWC glue drivers requiring an active reference clock from the PCIe host
> for initializing their PCIe EP core, set a flag called 'core_init_notifier'
> to let DWC driver know that these drivers need a special attention during
> initialization. In these drivers, access to the hw registers (like DBI)
> before receiving the active refclk from host will result in access failure
> and also could cause a whole system hang.
> 
> But the current DWC EP driver doesn't honor the requirements of the drivers
> setting 'core_init_notifier' flag and tries to access the DBI registers
> during dw_pcie_ep_init(). This causes the system hang for glue drivers such
> as Tegra194 and Qcom EP as they depend on refclk from host and have set the
> above mentioned flag.
> 
> To workaround this issue, users of the affected platforms have to maintain
> the dependency with the PCIe host by booting the PCIe EP after host boot.
> But this won't provide a good user experience, since PCIe EP is _one_ of
> the features of those platforms and it doesn't make sense to delay the
> whole platform booting due to PCIe requiring active refclk.
> 
> So to fix this issue, let's move all the DBI access from
> dw_pcie_ep_init() in the DWC EP driver to the dw_pcie_ep_init_complete()
> API. This API will only be called by the drivers setting
> 'core_init_notifier' flag once refclk is received from host. For the rest
> of the drivers that gets the refclk locally, this API will be called
> within dw_pcie_ep_init().
> 
> Fixes: e966f7390da9 ("PCI: dwc: Refactor core initialization code for EP mode")
> Co-developed-by: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
> ---

I'm not sure if the Fixes tag is stictly correct, since there is
nothing wrong with the commit that the Fixes-tag is referencing.

What this patch addresses is an additional use-case/feature,
which allows you to start the EP-side before the RC-side.

However, I'm guessing that you kept the Fixes-tag such that this
patch will get backported. However, this patch is number 4/10 in
the patch series. If this is a strict fix that you want backported,
and it does not depend on any of the previous patches (it doesn't
seem that way), then I think that you should have put it as patch
1/10 in the series.

Patch ordering aside:
Reviewed-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>