Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: apple: Follow the PCIe specifications when resetting the port

[Marc Zyngier]

Luca,

On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:32:15 +0000,
Luca Ceresoli <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> Just one comment. PERST# (PCIe Reset) is active-low signal. De-asserting
> >> means to really set value to 1.
> >>
> >> But there was a discussion that de-asserting should be done by call:
> >>   gpiod_set_value(reset, 0);
> >>
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/51be082a-ff10-8a19-5648-f279aabcac51@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >>
> >> Could we make this new pcie-apple.c driver to use gpiod_set_value(reset, 0)
> >> for de-asserting, like in other drivers?
> 
> I agree it should be done right from the beginning since this is a new
> driver. Fixing it later is a painful process.

No more painful than anything else. At this stage, using a positive or
negative polarity is immaterial, as there is no core infrastructure
making any use of this behaviour (every single driver must reinvent
its own square wheel). If such an infrastructure existed, that'd
indeed be a requirement. For now, this is merely a convention.

> > I guess it depends whether you care about the assertion or the signal
> > itself. I think we may have a bug in the way the GPIOs are handled at
> > the moment, as it makes no difference whether I register the GPIO are
> > active high or active low...
> >
> > I guess that will be yet another thing to debug, but in the meantime
> > we have a reliable reset.
> 
> Strange, in my case the "active low" pin polarity is correctly picked up
> from device tree by the gpiolib code, thus using gpio_set_value(gpiod,
> 1) asserts the pin as it should, resulting in an electrically low pin.

As I said, this looks like a bug, probably in the M1 DT. I'll try to
look into it when I get the time.

	M.

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