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Date:   Sun, 20 Jun 2021 21:42:26 +0300
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@...pberrypi.com>
Cc:     Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech>, Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Tim Gover <tim.gover@...pberrypi.com>,
        Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Phil Elwell <phil@...pberrypi.com>,
        Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vc4: dsi: Only register our component once a DSI
 device is attached

Hi Dave,

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 03:29:03PM +0100, Dave Stevenson wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 at 04:26, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >
> > Hi Maxime,
> >
> > I'm testing this, and I'm afraid it causes an issue with all the
> > I2C-controlled bridges. I'm focussing on the newly merged ti-sn65dsi83
> > driver at the moment, but other are affected the same way.
> >
> > With this patch, the DSI component is only added when the DSI device is
> > attached to the host with mipi_dsi_attach(). In the ti-sn65dsi83 driver,
> > this happens in the bridge attach callback, which is called when the
> > bridge is attached by a call to drm_bridge_attach() in vc4_dsi_bind().
> > This creates a circular dependency, and the DRM/KMS device is never
> > created.
> >
> > How should this be solved ? Dave, I think you have shown an interest in
> > the sn65dsi83 recently, any help would be appreciated. On a side note,
> > I've tested the ti-sn65dsi83 driver on a v5.10 RPi kernel, without much
> > success (on top of commit e1499baa0b0c I get a very weird frame rate -
> > 147 fps of 99 fps instead of 60 fps - and nothing on the screen, and on
> > top of the latest v5.10 RPi branch, I get lock-related warnings at every
> > page flip), which is why I tried v5.12 and noticed this patch. Is it
> > worth trying to bring up the display on the v5.10 RPi kernel in parallel
> > to fixing the issue introduced in this patch, or is DSI known to be
> > broken there ?
> 
> I've been looking at SN65DSI83/4, but as I don't have any hardware
> I've largely been suggesting things to try to those on the forums who
> do [1].
> 
> My branch at https://github.com/6by9/linux/tree/rpi-5.10.y-sn65dsi8x-marek
> is the latest one I've worked on. It's rpi-5.10.y with Marek's driver
> cherry-picked, and an overlay and simple-panel definition by others.
> It also has a rework for vc4_dsi to use pm_runtime, instead of
> breaking up the DSI bridge chain (which is flawed as it never calls
> the bridge mode_set or mode_valid functions which sn65dsi83 relies
> on).
> 
> I ran it on Friday in the lab and encountered an issue with vc4_dsi
> should vc4_dsi_encoder_mode_fixup wish for a divider of 7 (required
> for this 800x1280 panel over 4 lanes) where it resulted in an invalid
> mode configuration. That resulted in patch [2] which then gave me
> sensible numbers.
> 
> That branch with dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d and
> dtoverlay=vc4-kms-dsi-ti-sn65dsi83 created all the expected devices,
> and everything came up normally.
> It was a busy day, but I think I even stuck a scope on the clock lanes
> at that point and confirmed that they were at the link frequency
> expected.

Thanks, I'll test your branch and will report the results.

> Coming back to this patch though, it isn't in 5.10 so I'm not seeing
> the issues. As to the exact ordering of attaches, I can't claim
> sufficient knowledge on that front.
> I can try a cherry-pick of this patch to see what goes on, but it
> won't be for a day or two.

Let's see if Maxime has an opinion :-)

> [1] Largely https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=305690,
> but ignore about the first 5 pages of the thread as different driver
> versions were floating about. Most stuff after that is based on
> Marek's driver.
> [2] https://github.com/6by9/linux/commit/c3c774136a1e946109048711d16974be8d520aaa
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 12:19:12PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > If the DSI driver is the last to probe, component_add will try to run all
> > > the bind callbacks straight away and return the error code.
> > >
> > > However, since we depend on a power domain, we're pretty much guaranteed to
> > > be in that case on the BCM2711, and are just lucky on the previous SoCs
> > > since the v3d also depends on that power domain and is further in the probe
> > > order.
> > >
> > > In that case, the DSI host will not stick around in the system: the DSI
> > > bind callback will be executed, will not find any DSI device attached and
> > > will return EPROBE_DEFER, and we will then remove the DSI host and ask to
> > > be probed later on.
> > >
> > > But since that host doesn't stick around, DSI devices like the RaspberryPi
> > > touchscreen whose probe is not linked to the DSI host (unlike the usual DSI
> > > devices that will be probed through the call to mipi_dsi_host_register)
> > > cannot attach to the DSI host, and we thus end up in a situation where the
> > > DSI host cannot probe because the panel hasn't probed yet, and the panel
> > > cannot probe because the DSI host hasn't yet.
> > >
> > > In order to break this cycle, let's wait until there's a DSI device that
> > > attaches to the DSI host to register the component and allow to progress
> > > further.
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c | 25 ++++++++-----------------
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
> > > index eaf276978ee7..19aab4e7e209 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
> > > @@ -1246,10 +1246,12 @@ static ssize_t vc4_dsi_host_transfer(struct mipi_dsi_host *host,
> > >       return ret;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +static const struct component_ops vc4_dsi_ops;
> > >  static int vc4_dsi_host_attach(struct mipi_dsi_host *host,
> > >                              struct mipi_dsi_device *device)
> > >  {
> > >       struct vc4_dsi *dsi = host_to_dsi(host);
> > > +     int ret;
> > >
> > >       dsi->lanes = device->lanes;
> > >       dsi->channel = device->channel;
> > > @@ -1284,6 +1286,12 @@ static int vc4_dsi_host_attach(struct mipi_dsi_host *host,
> > >               return 0;
> > >       }
> > >
> > > +     ret = component_add(&dsi->pdev->dev, &vc4_dsi_ops);
> > > +     if (ret) {
> > > +             mipi_dsi_host_unregister(&dsi->dsi_host);
> > > +             return ret;
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > >       return 0;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > @@ -1662,7 +1670,6 @@ static int vc4_dsi_dev_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >  {
> > >       struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> > >       struct vc4_dsi *dsi;
> > > -     int ret;
> > >
> > >       dsi = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*dsi), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >       if (!dsi)
> > > @@ -1670,26 +1677,10 @@ static int vc4_dsi_dev_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >       dev_set_drvdata(dev, dsi);
> > >
> > >       dsi->pdev = pdev;
> > > -
> > > -     /* Note, the initialization sequence for DSI and panels is
> > > -      * tricky.  The component bind above won't get past its
> > > -      * -EPROBE_DEFER until the panel/bridge probes.  The
> > > -      * panel/bridge will return -EPROBE_DEFER until it has a
> > > -      * mipi_dsi_host to register its device to.  So, we register
> > > -      * the host during pdev probe time, so vc4 as a whole can then
> > > -      * -EPROBE_DEFER its component bind process until the panel
> > > -      * successfully attaches.
> > > -      */
> > >       dsi->dsi_host.ops = &vc4_dsi_host_ops;
> > >       dsi->dsi_host.dev = dev;
> > >       mipi_dsi_host_register(&dsi->dsi_host);
> > >
> > > -     ret = component_add(&pdev->dev, &vc4_dsi_ops);
> > > -     if (ret) {
> > > -             mipi_dsi_host_unregister(&dsi->dsi_host);
> > > -             return ret;
> > > -     }
> > > -
> > >       return 0;
> > >  }
> > >

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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