Re: [PATCH 2/2] PCI: uniphier: Add checking whether PERST# is deasserted

From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I
Date: Fri Dec 06 2019 - 04:00:26 EST


Hi,

On 06/12/19 2:28 pm, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
Hi Kishon,

On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 12:28:29 +0530 <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

On 04/12/19 3:35 pm, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:53:16 +0900 <hayashi.kunihiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Lorenzo,

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:47:05 +0000 <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 04:30:27PM +0900, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
However, If I understand correctly, doesn't your solution only work some
of the time? What happens if you boot both machines at the same time,
and PERST# isn't asserted prior to the kernel booting?

I think it contains an annoying problem.

If PERST# isn't toggled prior to the kernel booting, PERST# remains asserted
and the RC driver can't access PCI bus.

As a result, this patch works and deasserts PERST# (and EP configuration will
be lost). So boot sequence needs to include deasserting PERST#.

I am sorry but I have lost you. Can you explain to us why checking
that PERST# is deasserted guarantees you that:

- The EP has bootstrapped
- It is safe not to toggle it again (and also skip
uniphier_pcie_ltssm_enable())

Please provide details of the HW configuration so that we understand
what's actually supposed to happen and why this patch fixes the
issue you are facing.

I tried to connect between the following boards, and do pci-epf-test:
- "RC board": UniPhier ld20 board that has DWC RC controller
- "EP board": UniPhier legacy board that has DWC EP controller

This EP has power-on-state configuration, but it's necessary to set
class ID, BAR sizes, etc. after starting up.

In case of that starting up RC board before EP board, the RC driver
can't establish link. So we need to boot EP board first.
At that point, I've considered why RC can't establish link,
and found that the waitng time was too short.
- EP/RC: power on both boards
- RC: start up the kernel on RC board
- RC: wait for link up (long time enough)
- EP: start up the kernel on EP board
- EP: configurate pci-epf-test
When the endpoint configuration is done and the EP driver enables LTSSM,
the RC driver will quit from waiting for link up.
Currently DWC RC driver calls dwc_pcie_wait_for_link(), however,
the function tries to link up 10 times only, that is defined
as LINK_WAIT_MAX_RETRIES in pcie-designware.h, it's too short
to configurate the endpoint.
Now the patch to bypass PERST# is not necessary.
Instead for DWC RC drivers, I think that the number of retries
should be changed according to the usage.
And the same issue remains with other RC drivers.

If EP is configured using Linux, then PERST# cannot be used as it's difficult to boot linux and initialize EP within the specified time interval. Can't you prevent PERST from being propagated at all?

Surely it might be difficult for RC to decide the time to wait for EP.
Since RC almost toggles PERST# in boot time, I'd like to think about
how to prevent from first PERST# at least.

It can be prevented in the HW (If that's possible). I modify the cable connecting RC and EP to not propagate PERST#.

Thanks
Kishon