Re: [PATCH v3] phy/qcom-qmp-combo: propagate correct return value at phy_power_on()

From: Abhinav Kumar
Date: Wed Apr 03 2024 - 16:00:00 EST




On 4/3/2024 12:51 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
Quoting Kuogee Hsieh (2024-03-29 12:50:35)
Currently qmp_combo_dp_power_on() always return 0 in regardless of
return value of cfg->configure_dp_phy(). This patch propagate
return value of cfg->configure_dp_phy() all the way back to caller.

Is this found via code inspection or because the phy is failing to power
on sometimes? I ask because I'm looking at a DP bug on Trogdor with
chromeos' v6.6 based kernel and wondering if this is related.


No, we actually hit an issue. This issue was originally reported as a link training issue while bringing up DP on x1e80100.

While debugging that we noticed that we should not have even proceeded to link training because the PLL was not getting locked and it was failing silently since there are no other error prints (and hence the second part of the patch to improve the error logs), and we do not return any error code from this driver, we could not catch the PLL unlocked issue.

Also, is the call to phy_power_on() going to be checked in
the DP driver?

$ git grep -n phy_power_on -- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_ctrl.c:1453: phy_power_on(phy);

Yes, this is a good point. We should also post the patch to add the error checking in DP driver to fail if phy_power_on fails.