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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:30:48 +0200
From:   AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
To:     Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
Cc:     Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>,
        Alexandre Mergnat <amergnat@...libre.com>, sboyd@...nel.org,
        mturquette@...libre.com, matthias.bgg@...il.com, msp@...libre.com,
        yangyingliang@...wei.com, u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de,
        miles.chen@...iatek.com, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: mediatek: mt8195-topckgen: Refactor parents for
 top_dp/edp muxes

Il 17/07/23 13:24, Maxime Ripard ha scritto:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:13:26AM +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>> Il 17/07/23 09:48, Maxime Ripard ha scritto:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 12:19:00PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 9:22 PM Alexandre Mergnat <amergnat@...libre.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 13/07/2023 09:21, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>>>>>> The top_dp and top_edp muxes can be both parented to either TVDPLL1
>>>>>> or TVDPLL2, two identically specced PLLs for the specific purpose of
>>>>>> giving out pixel clock: this becomes a problem when the MediaTek
>>>>>> DisplayPort Interface (DPI) driver tries to set the pixel clock rate.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the usecase of two simultaneous outputs (using two controllers),
>>>>>> it was seen that one of the displays would sometimes display garbled
>>>>>> output (if any at all) and this was because:
>>>>>>     - top_edp was set to TVDPLL1, outputting X GHz
>>>>>>     - top_dp was set to TVDPLL2, outputting Y GHz
>>>>>>       - mtk_dpi calls clk_set_rate(top_edp, Z GHz)
>>>>>>         - top_dp is switched to TVDPLL1
>>>>>>         - TVDPLL1 changes its rate, top_edp outputs the wrong rate.
>>>>>>         - eDP display is garbled
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To solve this issue, remove all TVDPLL1 parents from `top_dp` and
>>>>>> all TVDPLL2 parents from `top_edp`, plus, necessarily switch both
>>>>>> clocks to use the new MUX_GATE_CLR_SET_UPD_INDEXED() macro to be
>>>>>> able to use the right bit index for the new parents list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>     drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
>>>>>>     1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c
>>>>>> index 81daa24cadde..abb3721f6e1b 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c
>>>>>> @@ -417,15 +417,21 @@ static const char * const pwrmcu_parents[] = {
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     static const char * const dp_parents[] = {
>>>>>>         "clk26m",
>>>>>> -     "tvdpll1_d2",
>>>>>>         "tvdpll2_d2",
>>>>>> -     "tvdpll1_d4",
>>>>>>         "tvdpll2_d4",
>>>>>> -     "tvdpll1_d8",
>>>>>>         "tvdpll2_d8",
>>>>>> -     "tvdpll1_d16",
>>>>>>         "tvdpll2_d16"
>>>>>>     };
>>>>>> +static const u8 dp_parents_idx[] = { 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 };
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +static const char * const edp_parents[] = {
>>>>>> +     "clk26m",
>>>>>> +     "tvdpll1_d2",
>>>>>> +     "tvdpll1_d4",
>>>>>> +     "tvdpll1_d8",
>>>>>> +     "tvdpll1_d16"
>>>>>> +};
>>>>>> +static const u8 edp_parents_idx[] = { 0, 1, 3, 5, 7 };
>>>>>
>>>>> AFAII your solution is to force a specific TVDPLLX for each display, and
>>>>> it isn't dynamic.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you think it's possible to do that using the DTS ? I'm asking
>>>>> because, IMHO, this kind of setup is more friendly/readable/flexible in
>>>>> the DTS than hardcoded into the driver.
>>>>
>>>> (CC-ing Maxime, who has some experience in the matter.)
>>>
>>> It's not clear to me what the context is, but I'll try my best :)
>>>
>>
>> I'll try to explain briefly.
>>
>> On *some* MediaTek platforms, there are two *identical* PLLs for HDMI/(e)DP,
>> which are internal to the SoC; clocks for HDMI/eDP/DP controller*s* can be
>> parented either PLL (as you see from this commit)
> 
> So the HDMI controller can be parented either to the first or second PLL
> (and same thing for the (e)DP controllers)?
> 

We're talking about DP/eDP specifically here, but yeah, you got it! :-)

>> The PLL's rate can be changed in runtime and you want to use PLL dividers to
>> get the final pixel clock (that's to obviously reduce the PLL jitter).
>>
>>>> assigned-parents doesn't prevent your system from reparenting the clocks
>>>> back to a conflicting configuration.
>>>
>>> Yep, it's very much a one-off thing. There's no guarantee at the moment,
>>> and semantics-wise we could change the whole thing at probe time and it
>>> would be fine.
>>>
>>
>> Would be fine... but more complicated I think?
> 
> My point wasn't that you should do it, but that you can't rely on the
> parent or rate sticking around.
> 

Cool, I'm happy that we think alike. That's also my point...

>>>> AFAIK the recommended way to deal with this is to use
>>>> clk_set_rate_exclusive() and co. in whatever consumer driver that
>>>> needs exclusive control on the clock rate.
>>>
>>> I guess it works, but it looks to me like the issue here is that the
>>> provider should disable it entirely? My expectation for
>>> clk_set_rate_exclusive() is that one user needs to lock the clock rate
>>> to operate properly.
>>>
>>> If the provider expectation is that the rate or parent should never
>>> changed, then that needs to be dealt with at the provider level, ie
>>> through the clk_ops.
>>>
>>>> However I'm not sure if that works for parents. It should, given the
>>>> original use case was for the sunxi platforms, which like the MediaTek
>>>> platform here has 2 PLLs for video related consumers, but I couldn't
>>>> find code verifying it.
>>>
>>> If you want to prevent clocks from ever being reparented, you can use
>>> the new clk_hw_determine_rate_no_reparent() determine_rate
>>> implementation.
>>>
>>
>> We want the clocks to be reparented, as we need them to switch parents as
>> explained before... that's more or less how the tree looks:
>>
>> TVDPLL(x) -> PLL Divider (fixed) -> MUX -> Gate -> Controller
>>
>> Besides, I think that forcing *one* parent to the dp/edp mux would produce a
>> loss of the flexibility that the clock framework provides.
>>
>> I again want to emphasize on the fact that TVDPLL1 and TVDPLL2 are *identical*
>> in specs, and on that there will never be a MT8195 SoC that has only one of
>> the two PLLs, for obvious reasons...
>>
>> P.S.: If you need more context, I'll be glad to answer to any other question!
> 
> Then I have no idea what the question is :)
> 
> What are you trying to achieve / fix, and how can I help you ? :)
> 

Chen-Yu, Alexandre had/have questions about if there was any other solution instead
of using the solution of *this* commit, so, if there's any other better solution
than the one that I've sent as this commit.

I'm the one saying that this commit is the best solution :-P

Cheers,
Angelo

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