Re: [PATCH] Revert "ARM: dts: rockchip: add startup delay to rk3288-veyron panel-regulators"

From: Heiko Stuebner
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 17:33:43 EST


Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2019, 06:54:58 CEST schrieb Doug Anderson:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:31 PM Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:21 AM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This reverts commit 1f45e8c6d0161f044d679f242fe7514e2625af4a.
> > >
> > > This 100 ms mystery delay is not on downstream kernels and no longer
> > > seems needed on upstream kernels either [1]. Presumably something in the
> > > meantime has made things better. A few possibilities for patches that
> > > have landed in the meantime that could have made this better are
> > > commit 3157694d8c7f ("pwm-backlight: Add support for PWM delays
> > > proprieties."), commit 5fb5caee92ba ("pwm-backlight: Enable/disable
> > > the PWM before/after LCD enable toggle."), and commit 6d5922dd0d60
> > > ("ARM: dts: rockchip: set PWM delay backlight settings for Veyron")
> > >
> > > Let's revert and get our 100 ms back.
> > >
> > > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2226970.BAPq4liE1j@diego
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jaq.dts | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jerry.dts | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-minnie.dts | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-speedy.dts | 1 -
> > > 4 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > Maybe wait before applying. I've been running reboot tests now with
> > this patch applied (among others) and with enough reboots I managed to
> > see:
> >
> > [ 5.682418] rockchip-dp ff970000.dp: eDP link training failed (-5)
> >
> > I'll see if I can confirm that it's this patch and why things are
> > different compared to downstream.
>
> OK, I finally got back to this and confirmed:
>
> 1. The above error is actually somewhat harmless. The eDP failure
> will be retried automatically despite the scary message. Specifically
> see the loop in analogix_dp_bridge_enable(). I confirmed that after
> seeing the error the screen came up just fine (I looked at the screen
> in two actual instances but I believe it's pretty much always fine).
>
> 2. I haven't seen any evidence that the eDP link training happens any
> more often with this revert in place. Specifically, I see the same
> message in the logs (at what appears to be the same rate) with or
> without this revert.
>
> 3. Probably the link-training failures here are the same ones we
> debugged for PSR for rk3399-gru-kevin that we fixed by making the eDP
> PCLK rate exactly 24 MHz. See <https://crrev.com/c/433393> for
> details. On rk3399-gru-kevin it was super important to resolve the
> root cause of these errors because we had PSR (which meant we were
> constantly taking to the eDP controller). On rk3288-veyron devices
> with no PSR the retry should be a fine solution and it doesn't seem
> like a good idea to fully rejigger our clock plan to fix the root
> cause.
>
>
> NOTE: I saw _one_ case on rk3288-veyron-minnie where the screen looked
> wonky at bootup and I saw the eDP link training error in the logs.
> That's what originally made me cautious. I haven't been able to
> reproduce this, but presumably I just got super unlucky in that one
> case. I've left devices rebooting all day at work and haven't seen
> the wonky screen since then.
>
>
> Summary: I think this revert is just fine.

it looks like by picking Matthias' cleanups of the veyron displays
first I broke this patch. I guess we just need to remove the
startup-delay-us = <100000>;
from the panel_regulator in the new rk3288-veyron-edp.dtsi ?


Heiko