Re: [PATCH v9 6/6] arm64: dts: qcom: ipq9574: Add icc provider ability to gcc

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 8.05.2024 10:10 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 09:53, Varadarajan Narayanan
> <quic_varada@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 04:51:04PM +0300, Georgi Djakov wrote:
>>> Hi Varada,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your work on this!
>>>
>>> On 2.05.24 12:30, Varadarajan Narayanan wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 12:05:29PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>> On 25.04.2024 12:26 PM, Varadarajan Narayanan wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 02:58:41PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/18/24 11:23, Varadarajan Narayanan wrote:
>>>>>>>> IPQ SoCs dont involve RPM in managing NoC related clocks and
>>>>>>>> there is no NoC scaling. Linux itself handles these clocks.
>>>>>>>> However, these should not be exposed as just clocks and align
>>>>>>>> with other Qualcomm SoCs that handle these clocks from a
>>>>>>>> interconnect provider.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hence include icc provider capability to the gcc node so that
>>>>>>>> peripherals can use the interconnect facility to enable these
>>>>>>>> clocks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Varadarajan Narayanan <quic_varada@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If this is all you do to enable interconnect (which is not the case,
>>>>>>> as this patch only satisfies the bindings checker, the meaningful
>>>>>>> change happens in the previous patch) and nothing explodes, this is
>>>>>>> an apparent sign of your driver doing nothing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It appears to do nothing because, we are just enabling the clock
>>>>>> provider to also act as interconnect provider. Only when the
>>>>>> consumers are enabled with interconnect usage, this will create
>>>>>> paths and turn on the relevant NOC clocks.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, with sync_state it actually does "something" (sets the interconnect
>>>>> path bandwidths to zero). And *this* patch does nothing functionally,
>>>>> it only makes the dt checker happy.
>>>>
>>>> I understand.
>>>>
>>>>>> This interconnect will be used by the PCIe and NSS blocks. When
>>>>>> those patches were posted earlier, they were put on hold until
>>>>>> interconnect driver is available.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Once this patch gets in, PCIe for example will make use of icc.
>>>>>> Please refer to https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20230519090219.15925-5-quic_devipriy@xxxxxxxxxxx/.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The 'pcieX' nodes will include the following entries.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         interconnects = <&gcc MASTER_ANOC_PCIE0 &gcc SLAVE_ANOC_PCIE0>,
>>>>>>                         <&gcc MASTER_SNOC_PCIE0 &gcc SLAVE_SNOC_PCIE0>;
>>>>>>         interconnect-names = "pcie-mem", "cpu-pcie";
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay. What about USB that's already enabled? And BIMC/MEMNOC?
>>>>
>>>> For USB, the GCC_ANOC_USB_AXI_CLK is enabled as part of the iface
>>>> clock. Hence, interconnect is not specified there.
>>>>
>>>> MEMNOC to System NOC interfaces seem to be enabled automatically.
>>>> Software doesn't have to turn on or program specific clocks.
>>>>
>>>>>>> The expected reaction to "enabling interconnect" without defining the
>>>>>>> required paths for your hardware would be a crash-on-sync_state, as all
>>>>>>> unused (from Linux's POV) resources ought to be shut down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Because you lack sync_state, the interconnects silently retain the state
>>>>>>> that they were left in (which is not deterministic), and that's precisely
>>>>>>> what we want to avoid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried to set 'sync_state' to icc_sync_state to be invoked and
>>>>>> didn't see any crash.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you confirmed that the registers are actually written to, and with
>>>>> correct values?
>>>>
>>>> I tried the following combinations:-
>>>>
>>>> 1. Top of tree linux-next + This patch set
>>>>
>>>>     * icc_sync_state called
>>>>     * No crash or hang observed
>>>>     * From /sys/kernel/debug/clk/clk_summary can see the
>>>>       relevant clocks are set to the expected rates (compared
>>>>       with downstream kernel)
>>>>
>>>> 2. Top of tree linux-next + This patch set + PCIe enablement
>>>>
>>>>     * icc_sync_state NOT called
>>>
>>> If sync_state() is not being called, that usually means that there
>>> are interconnect consumers that haven't probed successfully (PCIe?)
>>> or their dependencies. That can be checked in /sys/class/devlink/.../status
>>> But i am not sure how this works for PCI devices however.
>>>
>>> You can also manually force a call to sync_state by writing "1" to
>>> the interconnect provider's /sys/devices/.../state_synced
>>>
>>> Anyway, the question is if PCIe and NSS work without this driver?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> If they work, is this because the clocks are turned on by default
>>> or by the boot loader?
>>
>> Initially, the PCIe/NSS driver enabled these clocks directly
>> by having them in their DT nodes itself. Based on community
>> feedback this was removed and after that PCIe/NSS did not work.
>>
>>> Then if an interconnect path (clock) gets disabled either when we
>>> reach a sync_state (with no bandwidth requests) or we explicitly
>>> call icc_set_bw() with 0 bandwidth values, i would expect that
>>> these PCIe and NSS devices would not function anymore (it might
>>> save some power etc) and if this is unexpected we should see a
>>> a crash or hang...
>>>
>>> Can you confirm this?
>>
>> With ICC enabled, icc_set_bw (with non-zero values) is called by
>> PCIe and NSS drivers. Haven't checked with icc_set_bw with zero
>> values.
>>
>> PCIe:   qcom_pcie_probe -> qcom_pcie_icc_init -> icc_set_bw
>> NSS:    ppe_icc_init -> icc_set_bw
>>
>> I believe sync_state is not getting called since there is a
>> non-zero set bandwidth request. Which seems to be aligned with
>> your explanation.
> 
> This doesn't look correct. sync_state is being called once all
> consumers are probed. It doesn't matter whether those consumers have
> non-zero bandwidth requests or no.

/sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred may have some useful info, too

Konrad