linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 11/12] spmi: pmic-arb: add support for HW version 5

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Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:50:27 +0530
From:   kgunda@...eaurora.org
To:     Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, sboyd@...eaurora.org,
        Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@...eaurora.org>,
        David Collins <collinsd@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 11/12] spmi: pmic-arb: add support for HW version 5

On 2017-08-18 16:43, kgunda@...eaurora.org wrote:
> On 2017-08-17 17:58, Shawn Guo wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 03:38:30PM +0530, kgunda@...eaurora.org wrote:
>>> The intention of this check is to avoid the access to the
>>> peripherals those are
>>> not owned by the current EE (APSS) and it is expected to return a
>>> failure if the
>>> peripheral that is not owned by the current EE is trying to be 
>>> accessed.
>> 
>> Thanks for the background of this check.
>> 
>>> Looks like you trying to access the GPIOs 0xc000 and 0xc100,
>>> which are owned by modem subsystem but not the APSS. That is why you
>>> seeing the failure for that.
>>> Please change the ownership of those GPIOs to APSS (id '0') if you
>>> are working on a non-modem device (APQ).
>> 
>> Yes, it's device apq8016-sbc, and the error message is like below.
>> 
>> [    1.317186] spmi spmi-0: PMIC arbiter version v2 (0x20010000)
>> [    1.324784] spmi spmi-0: failed to xlate sid = 0x0, periph = 0xc0,
>> irq = 0: ee=0 but owner=2
>> [    1.329430] spmi spmi-0: failed to xlate sid = 0x0, periph = 0xc0,
>> irq = 0: ee=0 but owner=2
>> [    1.337626] qcom-spmi-gpio: probe of
>> 200f000.spmi:pm8916@0:gpios@...0 failed with error -22
>> 
>> I see that 'qcom,ee' property of spmi_bus is already <0>.  Is that 
>> what
>> you mean by ownership of those GPIOs?
>> 
I do not mean that. The SPMI arbiter ownership register is programmed by 
the boot-loader,
where the actual ownership is set. The same is shown in the above logs 
as owner = 2.

>> The pm8916_gpio is working fine on apq8016-sbc device with the current
>> mainline kernel.  It's not good to break the existing device without
>> a very good.  IMO, we should get this fixed before the patch is 
>> merged.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> --
> 
> From the logs the ownership for these GPIOs is not assigned to the
> application processor but to another master. Considering this is a
> (apq8016-sbc) APSS only platform ideally the fix for this would be to
> update the ownership table in the boot loader. The other option would
> be to make the  existing ownership check in SW optional for a platform
> via DT. I will push a patch shortly for this. Could you please give
> that a try.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kiran
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