Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci-platform: add reset control support

[Kunihiko Hayashi]

Hi Hans,

On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 10:29:37 +0200
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 06-04-18 06:48, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
> > Hi Hans,
> > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:08:24 +0200
> > Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 05-04-18 16:00, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>> On 05-04-18 15:54, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 03:27:03PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 05-04-18 15:17, Patrice CHOTARD wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi Thierry
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 04/05/2018 11:54 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:30:53AM +0900, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Add support to get and control a list of resets for the device
> >>>>>>>> as optional and shared. These resets must be kept de-asserted until
> >>>>>>>> the device is enabled.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> This is specified as shared because some SoCs like UniPhier series
> >>>>>>>> have common reset controls with all ahci controller instances.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>> ??? .../devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt????? |? 1 +
> >>>>>>>> ??? drivers/ata/ahci.h???????????????????????????????? |? 1 +
> >>>>>>>> ??? drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c???????????????????? | 24 +++++++++++++++++++---
> >>>>>>>> ??? 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This causes a regression on Tegra because we explicitly request the
> >>>>>>> resets after the call to ahci_platform_get_resources().
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I confirm, we got exactly the same behavior on STi platform.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ?? From a quick look, ahci_mtk and ahci_st are in the same boat, adding the
> >>>>>>> corresponding maintainers to Cc.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Patrice, Matthias: does SATA still work for you after this patch? This
> >>>>>>> has been in linux-next since next-20180327.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> SATA is still working after this patch, but a kernel warning is
> >>>>>> triggered due to the fact that resets are both requested by
> >>>>>> libahci_platform and by ahci_st driver.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So in your case you might be able to remove the reset handling
> >>>>> from the ahci_st driver and rely on the new libahci_platform
> >>>>> handling instead? If that works that seems like a win to me.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As said elsewhere in this thread I think it makes sense to keep (or re-add
> >>>>> after a revert) the libahci_platform reset code, but make it conditional
> >>>>> on a flag passed to ahci_platform_get_resources(). This way we get
> >>>>> the shared code for most cases and platforms which need special handling
> >>>>> can opt-out.
> >>>>
> >>>> Agreed, although I prefer such helpers to be opt-in, rather than
> >>>> opt-out. In my experience that tends make the helpers more resilient to
> >>>> this kind of regression. It also simplifies things because instead of
> >>>> drivers saying "I want all the helpers except this one and that one",
> >>>> they can simply say "I want these helpers and that one". In the former
> >>>> case whenever you add some new (opt-out) feature, you have to update all
> >>>> drivers and add the exception. In the latter you only need to extend the
> >>>> drivers that want to make use of the new helper.
> >>
> >> Erm, the idea never was to make this opt-out but rather opt in, so
> >> we add a flags parameter to ahci_platform_get_resources() and all
> >> current users pass in 0 for that to keep the current behavior.
> >>
> >> And only the generic drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c driver will pass
> >> in a the new AHCI_PLATFORM_GET_RESETS flag, which makes
> >> ahci_platform_get_resources() (and the other functions) also deal
> >> with resets.
> >>
> >>>> With that in mind, rather than adding a flag to the
> >>>> ahci_platform_get_resources() function, it might be more flexible to
> >>>> split the helpers into finer-grained functions. That way drivers can
> >>>> pick whatever functionality they want from the helpers.
> >>>> Good point, so lets:
> >>>> 1) Revert the patch for now
> >>> 2) Have a new version of the patch which adds a ahci_platform_get_resets() helper
> >>> 3) Modify the generic drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c driver to call the new
> >>>   ?? ahci_platform_get_resets() between its ahci_platform_get_resources()
> >>>   ?? and ahci_platform_enable_resources() calls.
> >>>   ?? I think that ahci_platform_enable_resources() should still automatically
> >>>   ?? do the right thing wrt resets if ahci_platform_get_resets() was called
> >>>   ?? (otherwise the resets array will be empty and should be skipped)
> >>>> This should make the generic driver usable for the UniPhier SoCs and
> >>> maybe some other drivers like the ahci_st driver can also switch to the
> >>> new ahci_platform_get_resets() functionality to reduce their code a bit.
> >>
> >> So thinking slightly longer about this, with the opt-in variant
> >> (which is what I intended all along) I do think that a flags parameter
> >> is better, because the whole idea behind lib_ahci_platform is to avoid
> >> having to do err = get_resource_a(), if (err) bail, err = get_resource_b()
> >> if (err) bail, etc. in all the ahci (platform) drivers. And having fine
> >> grained helpers re-introduces that.
> > > In case of adding a flag instead of get_resource_a(),
> > for example, we add the flag for use of resets,
> > > -struct ahci_host_priv *ahci_platform_get_resources(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > +struct ahci_host_priv *ahci_platform_get_resources(struct platform_device *pdev,
> > +                                                  bool use_reset)
> > > and for now all the drivers using this function need to add the argument as false
> > to the caller.
> > > -       hpriv = ahci_platform_get_resources(pdev);
> > +       hpriv = ahci_platform_get_resources(pdev, false);
> > > Surely this can avoid adding functions such get_resource_a(). If we apply another
> > feature later, we add its flag as one of the arguments instead. Is it right?
> 
> Yes, that is right, but instead of adding a "bool use_reset" please add
> an "unsigned int flags" parameter instead and a:
> 
> #define AHCI_PLATFORM_GET_RESETS	0x01
> 
> And update all callers of ahci_platform_get_resources to pass 0 for flags
> except for drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c. This way we only need to modify
> all callers once, and if we want to add another optional resource in
> the future we can add a:
> 
> #define AHCI_PLATFORM_GET_FOO		0x02
> 
> Without needing to change all callers again.

Indeed. This is more flexible to add another resources.

Although I'm about to prepare the candidate patch to fix this issue,
I think we need to revert the previous patch first if some SoCs have
issues because of it.

Thank you,

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Best Regards,
Kunihiko Hayashi