Re: [RFC 2/2] phy: exynos5-usbdrd: remove disable and enable of phy clk

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 02:37:14AM +0530, Anand Moon wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On 8 October 2017 at 21:20, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 06:11:12PM +0530, Anand Moon wrote:
> >> Hi Krzysztof,
> >>
> >> On 6 October 2017 at 12:12, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 6:36 AM, Anand Moon <linux.amoon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> remove the disable and enable of phy clk.
> >> >> phy clk is needed to tune the phy controller.
> >> >
> >> > Drivers should in general enable and disable the clocks they use. Just
> >> > like in patch #1 please describe why you are doing this, what kind of
> >> > problem are you trying to solve and what exactly are you trying to do
> >> > here.
> >> >
> >> > BR,
> >> > Krzysztof
> >> >
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Usually we would disable the clk on error patch and return with failed.
> >> but in the current code we disable the clk in init routine and
> >> enable the clk in disable routine which seem incorrect.
> >
> > No. For example for exynos5_usbdrd_phy_exit() the driver enables the
> > clock only for the access to PHY block (PHY registers).
> >
> 
> But I dont get it why we disable code phy clk, which could be used in
> future phy tune or link control as it part of CLK_FSYS.

Clock is being disabled when it is not used. AFAIU, current code follows
this logic.

> 
> >>
> >> [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/phy/samsung/phy-exynos5-usbdrd.c#L362-L412
> >> [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/phy/samsung/phy-exynos5-usbdrd.c#L424-L446
> >>
> >> On 3.10.x kernel clk_summary all the clk are enables.
> >>
> >>     mout_usbdrd300              3           3            24000000
> >>        dout_usbdrd300           2           2            24000000
> >>           sclk_usbdrd300        1           1            24000000
> >>        dout_usbphy300           2           2            24000000
> >>           sclk_usbphy300        1           1            24000000
> >>     mout_usbdrd301              3           3            24000000
> >>        dout_usbdrd301           2           2            24000000
> >>           sclk_usbdrd301        1           1            24000000
> >>        dout_usbphy301           2           2            24000000
> >>           sclk_usbphy301        1           1            24000000
> >>
> >> Some more changes in clk driver might be required to stabilize the usb module.
> >
> > Please describe the issues with stability first.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Krzysztof
> >
> On stability:
> 
> USB 3.0 read / write performance is not up to mark with moderate data
> read / write speed,
> If you give long compilation of kernel or any source code it would
> likely be slow
> It work pretty good with USB 3.0 SSD but generally failed with 2.5' inc HDD.
> 
> If needed I will share you some performance test result with and
> without these patches.

Yes, such results are essential for this (and any) commit.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


> 
> I have some more changes related to usbdrd phy change queued along this on.
> 
> Best Regards
> -Anand