Re: [PATCH v1 03/11] drivers: soc: hisi: Add support for Hisilicon Djtag driver

From: Tan Xiaojun
Date: Tue Nov 08 2016 - 02:02:57 EST


On 2016/11/7 21:26, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 11:42:46 AM CET Anurup M wrote:
>> From: Tan Xiaojun <tanxiaojun@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The Hisilicon Djtag is an independent component which connects
>> with some other components in the SoC by Debug Bus. This driver
>> can be configured to access the registers of connecting components
>> (like L3 cache) during real time debugging.
>
> The formatting of the text seems odd, please remove the leading spaces.
>

Sorry for that. We will fix it.

>> drivers/soc/Kconfig | 1 +
>> drivers/soc/Makefile | 1 +
>> drivers/soc/hisilicon/Kconfig | 12 +
>> drivers/soc/hisilicon/Makefile | 1 +
>> drivers/soc/hisilicon/djtag.c | 639 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/linux/soc/hisilicon/djtag.h | 38 +++
>
> Do you expect other drivers to be added that reference this interface?
> If not, or if you are unsure, just put all of it under drivers/perf
> so we don't introduce a global API that has only one user.
>

OK. For now, this suggestion sounds good.

>> +
>> +#include <linux/bitops.h>
>> +#include <linux/init.h>
>> +#include <linux/list.h>
>> +#include <linux/module.h>
>> +#include <linux/of.h>
>> +#include <linux/of_address.h>
>> +#include <linux/of_device.h>
>> +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
>> +#include <linux/slab.h>
>> +#include <linux/spinlock.h>
>> +
>> +#include <asm-generic/delay.h>
>
> Never include files from asm-generic directly except from
> an architecture specific asm/*.h header file.
>
>

OK. Sorry for that.

>> +DEFINE_IDR(djtag_hosts_idr);
>
> make this static
>

OK.

>> +static void djtag_read32_relaxed(void __iomem *regs_base, u32 off, u32 *value)
>> +{
>> + void __iomem *reg_addr = regs_base + off;
>> +
>> + *value = readl_relaxed(reg_addr);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void djtag_write32(void __iomem *regs_base, u32 off, u32 val)
>> +{
>> + void __iomem *reg_addr = regs_base + off;
>> +
>> + writel(val, reg_addr);
>> +}
>
> This looks like an odd combination of interfaces.
> Why can the reads be "relaxed" when the writes can not?
>
> Generally speaking, I'd advise to always use non-relaxed accessors
> unless there is a strong performance reason, and in that case there
> should be a comment explaining the use at each of the callers
> of a relaxed accessor.
>

Yes, it is our mistake.

>> + /* ensure the djtag operation is done */
>> + do {
>> + djtag_read32_relaxed(regs_base, SC_DJTAG_MSTR_START_EN_EX, &rd);
>> +
>> + if (!(rd & DJTAG_MSTR_START_EN_EX))
>> + break;
>> +
>> + udelay(1);
>> + } while (timeout--);
>
> This one is obviously not performance critical at all, so use a non-relaxed
> accessor. Same for the other two in this function.
>
> Are these functions ever called from atomic context? If yes, please document
> from what context they can be called, otherwise please consider changing
> the udelay calls into sleeping waits.
>

Yes, this is not reentrant.

>> +int hisi_djtag_writel(struct hisi_djtag_client *client, u32 offset, u32 mod_sel,
>> + u32 mod_mask, u32 val)
>> +{
>> + void __iomem *reg_map = client->host->sysctl_reg_map;
>> + unsigned long flags;
>> + int ret = 0;
>> +
>> + spin_lock_irqsave(&client->host->lock, flags);
>> + ret = client->host->djtag_readwrite(reg_map, offset, mod_sel, mod_mask,
>> + true, val, 0, NULL);
>> + if (ret)
>> + pr_err("djtag_writel: error! ret=%d\n", ret);
>> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&client->host->lock, flags);
>> +
>> + return ret;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hisi_djtag_writel);
>
> That would of course imply changing the spinlock to a mutex here as well.
>
>> +static const struct of_device_id djtag_of_match[] = {
>> + /* for hip05(D02) cpu die */
>> + { .compatible = "hisilicon,hip05-cpu-djtag-v1",
>> + .data = (void *)djtag_readwrite_v1 },
>> + /* for hip05(D02) io die */
>> + { .compatible = "hisilicon,hip05-io-djtag-v1",
>> + .data = (void *)djtag_readwrite_v1 },
>> + /* for hip06(D03) cpu die */
>> + { .compatible = "hisilicon,hip06-cpu-djtag-v1",
>> + .data = (void *)djtag_readwrite_v1 },
>> + /* for hip06(D03) io die */
>> + { .compatible = "hisilicon,hip06-io-djtag-v2",
>> + .data = (void *)djtag_readwrite_v2 },
>> + /* for hip07(D05) cpu die */
>> + { .compatible = "hisilicon,hip07-cpu-djtag-v2",
>> + .data = (void *)djtag_readwrite_v2 },
>> + /* for hip07(D05) io die */
>> + { .compatible = "hisilicon,hip07-io-djtag-v2",
>> + .data = (void *)djtag_readwrite_v2 },
>> + {},
>> +};
>
> If these are backwards compatible, just mark them as compatible in DT,
> e.g. hip06 can use
>
> compatible = "hisilicon,hip06-cpu-djtag-v1", "hisilicon,hip05-cpu-djtag-v1";
>
> so you can tell the difference if you need to, but the driver only has to
> list the oldest one here.
>
> What is the difference between the cpu and io djtag interfaces?
>
> I think you can also drop the '(void *)'.
>

OK. We will consider it.

Thanks.
Xiaojun.

>> +static void djtag_register_devices(struct hisi_djtag_host *host)
>> +{
>> + struct device_node *node;
>> + struct hisi_djtag_client *client;
>> +
>> + if (!host->of_node)
>> + return;
>> +
>> + for_each_available_child_of_node(host->of_node, node) {
>> + if (of_node_test_and_set_flag(node, OF_POPULATED))
>> + continue;
>> + client = hisi_djtag_of_register_device(host, node);
>> + list_add(&client->next, &host->client_list);
>> + }
>> +}
>
> Can you explain your thoughts behind creating a new bus type
> and adding the child devices manually rather than using
> platform_device structures with of_platform_populate()?
>
> Do you expect to see other implementations of this bus type
> with incompatible bus drivers?
>
> Arnd
>
>
> .
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