Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] watchdog: iTCO_wdt: Fix PMC GCR memory mapping failure

[sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy]

On 03/17/2017 07:25 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 03/17/2017 04:43 AM, Rajneesh Bhardwaj wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:41:35PM -0700, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
> > > wrote:
> > > > Currently, iTCO watchdog driver uses memory map to access
> > > > PMC_CFG GCR register. But the entire GCR address space is
> > > > already mapped in intel_scu_ipc driver. So remapping the
> > I don't think I (or the watchdog mailing list) was copied on the original
> > patch.
> > Major immediate concern is that this introduces a dependency on external
> > code.
> > The pmc_ipc driver's Kconfig entry states "This is not needed for PC-type
> > machines". I don't know where the function is introduced, but I hope this
> > change
> > does not require the pmc_ipc code to be present on such machines for the
> > watchdog
> > to work. It would be bad if it does. If it doesn't, it appears that the
> > function
> > should not be declared in asm/intel_pmc_ipc.h.
> Agree.
>
> I already asked once [1] to fix up the mess we have in PDx86 regarding SCU IPC.
> (PMC IPC how it's called is actually just a [main] part of SCU in newer SoCs).
>
> Rajneesh, Kuppuswamy,
> please pay attention on the below.
>
> We have two libraries doing almost the same (basics) one for old
> platforms, one for new.
>
> My vision what should be done before we go further is:
> 1. Split out common part from intel_scu_ipc and intel_pmc_ipc to some library.
I think we should create MFD driver for PMC and remove the redundant 
resource and platform device creation codes.
Yes, there is common code in IPC implementation between scu_ipc and 
pmc_ipc code. This needs be modularized.

I can work on it and send a RFC patch for this cleanup. But it could 
take more time for merging this cleanup patch.
So I think, in the mean time, we should merge this watchdog fix first to 
remove iTCO watchdog device probe issue.
> 2. Move headers to linux/platform_data/x86 for sharing with drivers
> that are supporting non-Intel / not-newest-Intel hardware.
> 3. Fix the mess inside the intel_pmc_ipc code (like use devm_()
> helpers where it makes sense, no use of global variables, etc)
Agreed.
> On top of that
> 4. Fix up Whiskey Cove PMIC code (See Hans' message [2] for the details)
>
> [1] Oops, it happened on internal mailing list Jan 27. And mentioned
> publicly after in a review on some patch here.
> [2] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1702.3/01408.html

--
Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Android kernel developer