Re: [PATCH v1] regulator: Don't error out fixed regulator in regulator_sync_voltage()

[Dmitry Osipenko]

21.10.2021 16:12, Mark Brown пишет:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 02:07:07PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 
>> Fixed regulator can't change voltage and regulator_sync_voltage() returns
>> -EINVAL in this case. Make regulator_sync_voltage() to succeed for a fixed
>> regulator.
> 
>> +++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
>> @@ -4249,6 +4249,9 @@ int regulator_sync_voltage(struct regulator *regulator)
>>  	struct regulator_voltage *voltage = &regulator->voltage[PM_SUSPEND_ON];
>>  	int ret, min_uV, max_uV;
>>  
>> +	if (rdev->desc->fixed_uV && rdev->desc->n_voltages == 1)
>> +		return 0;
>> +
>>  	regulator_lock(rdev);
> 
> It's unclear why this is checking both fixed_uV and n_voltages.

It's unclear to me either. I borrowed this variant from the  preexisting
code [1][2].

[1]
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.15-rc6/source/drivers/regulator/core.c#L3075

[2]
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.15-rc6/source/drivers/regulator/core.c#L4319

>  TBH
> this feels like a higher level issue - with normal voltage configuration
> we would have noticed that our constraints prevent the voltage changing
> and not go as far as trying to actually apply a new configuration.  I
> would expect a similar thing to be happening here.
> 

This works for a normal regulator_set_voltage() because it checks
whether current voltage equals to the requested and then succeeds [3].
The higher level code relies on this behaviour of the regulator core, in
particular OPP core won't work without it and that's why voltage changes
work for a fixed regulator.

[3]
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.15-rc6/source/drivers/regulator/core.c#L3619

This doesn't work for the regulator_sync_voltage() because it uses a
different code path and the whole point is to re-apply the current
voltage. Hence the extra check is actually needed for the fixed
regulators in order to be consistent with the behaviour of
regulator_set_voltage().