linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] drm/etnaviv: Prevent IRQ triggering at probe time on i.MX8MM

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Message-ID: <CAHCN7x+sA9cGF6oqvZLKBdhRdZcxgW=U98uB81_R3iq_-Ok9=w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:14:02 -0500
From:   Adam Ford <aford173@...il.com>
To:     Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@...tron.de>
Cc:     Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
        Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@....com>,
        Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>,
        Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@....com>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>,
        Li Jun <jun.li@....com>, NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Russell King <linux+etnaviv@...linux.org.uk>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        "S.j. Wang" <shengjiu.wang@....com>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "etnaviv@...ts.freedesktop.org" <etnaviv@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] drm/etnaviv: Prevent IRQ triggering at probe time
 on i.MX8MM

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:31 AM Schrempf Frieder
<frieder.schrempf@...tron.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Lucas,
>
> On 30.04.20 16:32, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > Hi Frieder,
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, den 30.04.2020, 12:46 +0000 schrieb Schrempf Frieder:
> >> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@...tron.de>
> >>
> >> On i.MX8MM there is an interrupt getting triggered immediately after
> >> requesting the IRQ, which leads to a stall as the handler accesses
> >> the GPU registers whithout the clock being enabled.
> >>
> >> Enabling the clocks briefly seems to clear the IRQ state, so we do
> >> this before requesting the IRQ.
> >
> > This is most likely caused by improper power-up sequencing. Normally
> > the GPC will trigger a hardware reset of the modules inside a power
> > domain when the domain is powered on. This requires the clocks to be
> > running at this point, as those resets are synchronous, so need clock
> > pulses to propagate through the hardware.
>
> Ok, I was suspecting something like that and your explanation makes
> total sense to me.
>
> >
> >  From what I see the i.MX8MM is still missing the power domain
> > controller integration, but I'm pretty confident that this problem
> > should be solved in the power domain code, instead of the GPU driver.
>
> Ok. I was hoping that GPU support could be added without power domain
> control, but I now see that this is probably not reasonable at all.
> So I will keep on hoping that NXP comes up with an upstreamable solution
> for the power domain handling.


There was a patch for upstream power-domain control from NXP a few days ago:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10904511/

Can these be somehow tested to see if it helps the issue with the GPU?

adam
>
> Thanks,
> Frieder
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lucas
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@...tron.de>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >> --
> >>   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
> >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
> >> index a31eeff2b297..23877c1f150a 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
> >> @@ -1775,13 +1775,6 @@ static int etnaviv_gpu_platform_probe(struct
> >> platform_device *pdev)
> >>              return gpu->irq;
> >>      }
> >>
> >> -    err = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, gpu->irq, irq_handler, 0,
> >> -                           dev_name(gpu->dev), gpu);
> >> -    if (err) {
> >> -            dev_err(dev, "failed to request IRQ%u: %d\n", gpu->irq,
> >> err);
> >> -            return err;
> >> -    }
> >> -
> >>      /* Get Clocks: */
> >>      gpu->clk_reg = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "reg");
> >>      DBG("clk_reg: %p", gpu->clk_reg);
> >> @@ -1805,6 +1798,28 @@ static int etnaviv_gpu_platform_probe(struct
> >> platform_device *pdev)
> >>              gpu->clk_shader = NULL;
> >>      gpu->base_rate_shader = clk_get_rate(gpu->clk_shader);
> >>
> >> +    /*
> >> +     * On i.MX8MM there is an interrupt getting triggered
> >> immediately
> >> +     * after requesting the IRQ, which leads to a stall as the
> >> handler
> >> +     * accesses the GPU registers whithout the clock being enabled.
> >> +     * Enabling the clocks briefly seems to clear the IRQ state, so
> >> we do
> >> +     * this here before requesting the IRQ.
> >> +     */
> >> +    err = etnaviv_gpu_clk_enable(gpu);
> >> +    if (err)
> >> +            return err;
> >> +
> >> +    err = etnaviv_gpu_clk_disable(gpu);
> >> +    if (err)
> >> +            return err;
> >> +
> >> +    err = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, gpu->irq, irq_handler, 0,
> >> +                           dev_name(gpu->dev), gpu);
> >> +    if (err) {
> >> +            dev_err(dev, "failed to request IRQ%u: %d\n", gpu->irq,
> >> err);
> >> +            return err;
> >> +    }
> >> +
> >>      /* TODO: figure out max mapped size */
> >>      dev_set_drvdata(dev, gpu);
> >>
> >