Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Add retries for link training

[Steev Klimaszewski]

On 10/2/20 4:03 PM, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> On some panels hooked up to the ti-sn65dsi86 bridge chip we found that
> link training was failing.  Specifically, we'd see:
>
>   ti_sn65dsi86 2-002d: [drm:ti_sn_bridge_enable] *ERROR* Link training failed, link is off (-5)
>
> The panel was hooked up to a logic analyzer and it was found that, as
> part of link training, the bridge chip was writing a 0x1 to DPCD
> address 00600h and the panel responded NACK.  As can be seen in header
> files, the write of 0x1 to DPCD address 0x600h means we were trying to
> write the value DP_SET_POWER_D0 to the register DP_SET_POWER.  The
> panel vendor says that a NACK in this case is not unexpected and means
> "not ready, try again".
>
> In testing, we found that this panel would respond with a NACK in
> about 1/25 times.  Adding the retry logic worked fine and the most
> number of tries needed was 3.  Just to be safe, we'll add 10 tries
> here and we'll add a little blurb to the logs if we ever need more
> than 5.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> index ecdf9b01340f..6e12cda69b54 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@
>  #define SN_NUM_GPIOS			4
>  #define SN_GPIO_PHYSICAL_OFFSET		1
>  
> +#define SN_LINK_TRAINING_TRIES		10
> +
>  /**
>   * struct ti_sn_bridge - Platform data for ti-sn65dsi86 driver.
>   * @dev:          Pointer to our device.
> @@ -673,6 +675,7 @@ static int ti_sn_link_training(struct ti_sn_bridge *pdata, int dp_rate_idx,
>  {
>  	unsigned int val;
>  	int ret;
> +	int i;
>  
>  	/* set dp clk frequency value */
>  	regmap_update_bits(pdata->regmap, SN_DATARATE_CONFIG_REG,
> @@ -689,19 +692,34 @@ static int ti_sn_link_training(struct ti_sn_bridge *pdata, int dp_rate_idx,
>  		goto exit;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* Semi auto link training mode */
> -	regmap_write(pdata->regmap, SN_ML_TX_MODE_REG, 0x0A);
> -	ret = regmap_read_poll_timeout(pdata->regmap, SN_ML_TX_MODE_REG, val,
> -				       val == ML_TX_MAIN_LINK_OFF ||
> -				       val == ML_TX_NORMAL_MODE, 1000,
> -				       500 * 1000);
> -	if (ret) {
> -		*last_err_str = "Training complete polling failed";
> -	} else if (val == ML_TX_MAIN_LINK_OFF) {
> -		*last_err_str = "Link training failed, link is off";
> -		ret = -EIO;
> +	/*
> +	 * We'll try to link train several times.  As part of link training
> +	 * the bridge chip will write DP_SET_POWER_D0 to DP_SET_POWER.  If
> +	 * the panel isn't ready quite it might respond NAK here which means
> +	 * we need to try again.
> +	 */
> +	for (i = 0; i < SN_LINK_TRAINING_TRIES; i++) {
> +		/* Semi auto link training mode */
> +		regmap_write(pdata->regmap, SN_ML_TX_MODE_REG, 0x0A);
> +		ret = regmap_read_poll_timeout(pdata->regmap, SN_ML_TX_MODE_REG, val,
> +					val == ML_TX_MAIN_LINK_OFF ||
> +					val == ML_TX_NORMAL_MODE, 1000,
> +					500 * 1000);
> +		if (ret) {
> +			*last_err_str = "Training complete polling failed";
> +		} else if (val == ML_TX_MAIN_LINK_OFF) {
> +			*last_err_str = "Link training failed, link is off";
> +			ret = -EIO;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
> +		break;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* If we saw quite a few retries, add a note about it */
> +	if (!ret && i > SN_LINK_TRAINING_TRIES / 2)
> +		DRM_DEV_INFO(pdata->dev, "Link training needed %d retries\n", i);
> +
>  exit:
>  	/* Disable the PLL if we failed */
>  	if (ret)


Apologies for the previous HTML email, I was trying a new mail client
and... will not be switching to it.

Anyway.. again, this time in text..


Tested on the Lenovo C630, and haven’t seen the message, although I
hadn’t seen the described issue before either.

Tested-By: Steev Klimaszewski <steev@xxxxxxxx>