linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 3/7] ata: libahci: allow to use multiple PHYs

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2014 19:03:53 +0200
From:	Antoine Ténart 
	<antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Antoine Ténart 
	<antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>,
	sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com, kishon@...com,
	alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com,
	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, zmxu@...vell.com,
	jszhang@...vell.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/7] ata: libahci: allow to use multiple PHYs

Hello,

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:40:00AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> (Cc'ing Hans.)
> 
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:16:09PM +0200, Antoine Ténart wrote:
> > @@ -482,6 +482,13 @@ void ahci_save_initial_config(struct device *dev,
> >  		port_map &= mask_port_map;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If port_map was filled automatically when finding port sub-nodes,
> > +	 * make sure we get the right set here.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (hpriv->port_map)
> > +		port_map &= hpriv->port_map;
> > +
> 
> So, hpriv->port is both input and output?  This is messy and can lead
> to confusing failures and there now are multiple ways to modify
> port_map.  If carrying this information through ahci_host_priv is
> necessary, let's remove the direct params and introduce new input
> fields to the struct.

We just use hpriv->port_map to check port_map is valid and describes
available ports there.

hpriv->port_map is filed by the generic ahci_platform_get_resources()
function when using the new bindings and not by the drivers. port_map is
the input from the drivers.

> 
> >  /**
> > + * ahci_platform_enable_phys - Enable PHYs
> > + * @hpriv: host private area to store config values
> > + *
> > + * This function enables all the PHYs found in hpriv->phys, if any.
> > + * If a PHY fails to be enabled, it disables all the PHYs already
> > + * enabled in reverse order and returns an error.
> > + *
> > + * RETURNS:
> > + * 0 on success otherwise a negative error code
> > + */
> > +int ahci_platform_enable_phys(struct ahci_host_priv *hpriv)
> > +{
> > +	int i, rc = 0;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < hpriv->nphys; i++) {
> > +		rc = phy_init(hpriv->phys[i]);
> > +		if (rc)
> > +			goto disable_phys;
> > +
> > +		rc = phy_power_on(hpriv->phys[i]);
> > +		if (rc) {
> > +			phy_exit(hpriv->phys[i]);
> > +			goto disable_phys;
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +
> > +disable_phys:
> > +	while (--i >= 0) {
> > +		phy_power_off(hpriv->phys[i]);
> > +		phy_exit(hpriv->phys[i]);
> > +	}
> > +	return rc;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ahci_platform_enable_phys);
> 
> Do we need to make hpriv->phys[] dynamically allocated?  We already
> have hpriv->clks[AHCI_MAX_CLKS] and it's unlikely that we're gonna
> need more than several phys per host.  Let's go with a simpler fixed
> array.
> 

Well, a had a review a week ago about in the PHY driver saying I should
avoid using fixed sized arrays... And it was in a driver were we know
the maximum number of PHY available.

I think in this case were the number of PHYs depends on the h/w, we should
use a dynamically allocated array.


Antoine

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