Date:   Tue, 7 Dec 2021 13:16:52 +0100
From:   AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
To:     Yong Wu <yong.wu@...iatek.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...onical.com>
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
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        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, youlin.pei@...iatek.com,
        anan.sun@...iatek.com, lc.kan@...iatek.com, yi.kuo@...iatek.com,
        anthony.huang@...iatek.com, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] memory: mtk-smi: Add sleep ctrl function

Il 07/12/21 13:10, Yong Wu ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 09:56 +0100, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>> Il 07/12/21 07:24, Yong Wu ha scritto:
>>> Hi AngeloGioacchino,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your review.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 16:08 +0100, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
>>> wrote:
>>>> Il 03/12/21 07:40, Yong Wu ha scritto:
>>>>> sleep control means that when the larb go to sleep, we should
>>>>> wait
>>>>> a bit
>>>>> until all the current commands are finished. thus, when the
>>>>> larb
>>>>> runtime
>>>>> suspend, we need enable this function to wait until all the
>>>>> existed
>>>>> command are finished. when the larb resume, just disable this
>>>>> function.
>>>>> This function only improve the safe of bus. Add a new flag for
>>>>> this
>>>>> function. Prepare for mt8186.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Anan Sun <anan.sun@...iatek.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong.wu@...iatek.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>     drivers/memory/mtk-smi.c | 39
>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>     1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>>     static int __maybe_unused mtk_smi_larb_suspend(struct device
>>>>> *dev)
>>>>>     {
>>>>>     	struct mtk_smi_larb *larb = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>>>>> +	int ret = 0;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	if (MTK_SMI_CAPS(larb->larb_gen->flags_general,
>>>>> MTK_SMI_FLAG_SLEEP_CTL))
>>>>> +		ret = mtk_smi_larb_sleep_ctrl(dev, true);
>>>>
>>>> Sorry but what happens if SLP_PROT_RDY is not getting set
>>>> properly?
>>>>    From what I can understand in the commit description that you
>>>> wrote,
>>>> if we reach
>>>> the timeout, then the LARB transactions are not over....
>>>>
>>>> I see that you are indeed returning a failure here, but you are
>>>> also
>>>> turning off
>>>> the clocks regardless of whether we get a failure or a success;
>>>> I'm
>>>> not sure that
>>>> this is right, as this may leave the hardware in an unpredictable
>>>> state (since
>>>> there were some more LARB transactions that didn't go through),
>>>> leading to crashes
>>>> at system resume (or when retyring to suspend).
>>>
>>> Thanks for this question. In theory you are right. In this case,
>>> the
>>> bus already hang.
>>>
>>> We only printed a fail log in this patch. If this fail happens, we
>>> should request the master to check which case cause the larb hang.
>>>
>>> If the master has a good reason or limitation, the hang is
>>> expected, I
>>> think we have to add larb reset in this fail case: Reset the larb
>>> when
>>> the larb runtime resume.
>>>
>>
>> Think about the case in which the system gets resumed only partially
>> due to a
>>
>> failure during resume of some driver, or due to a RTC or arch timer
>> resume and
>> suspend right after... or perhaps during runtime suspend/resume of
>> some devices.
>> In that case, we definitely want to avoid any kind of failure point
>> that would
>> lead to a system crash, or any kind of user noticeable (or UX
>> disrupting) "strange
>> behavior".
>>
>> I think that we should make sure that the system suspends cleanly,
>> instead of
>> patching up any possible leftover issue at resume time: if this is
>> doable with
>> a LARB reset in suspend error case, that looks like being a good
>> option indeed.
>>
>> As a side note, thinking about UX, losing a little more time during
>> suspend is
>> nothing really noticeable for the user... on the other hand, spending
>> more time
>> during resume may be something noticeable to the user.
>> For this reason, I think that guaranteeing that the system resumes as
>> fast as
>> possible is very important, which adds up to the need of suspending
>> cleanly.
> 
> Thanks for this comment. I will put it in the suspend when adding the
> reset. But I have no plan to add it in this version since I don't see
> the need for this right now. Maybe I should add a comment in the code
> for this.
> 

What I understand from your reply is that the reset is not trivial work
and needs quite some time to be done properly; in that case: yes, please
add a TODO comment that explains the situation and the discussed solution.

Also, since this SLP_PROT_RDY flag seems to be very nice, just a simple
question: is this a new feature in the SMI IP of MT8186, or is there anything
similar that we may use on other SoCs, like 8183, 8192, 8195, as a follow-up
of this series?

>>
>>> Fortunately, we have never got this issue. We could add this reset
>>> when
>>> necessary. Is this OK for you?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>     	clk_bulk_disable_unprepare(larb->smi.clk_num, larb-
>>>>>> smi.clks);
>>>>> -	return 0;
>>>>> +	return ret;
>>>>>     }
>>>>>     
>>>>>     static const struct dev_pm_ops smi_larb_pm_ops = {
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>

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