linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] PCI: introduce the concept of power sequencing of PCIe devices

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Message-ID: <20240118164755.GA3253@thinkpad>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:17:55 +0530
From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
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	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] PCI: introduce the concept of power sequencing of
 PCIe devices

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 08:29:01AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 10:08 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
> >
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
> >
> > The responses to the RFC were rather positive so here's a proper series.
> 
> Thanks for tackling this.
> 
> > During last year's Linux Plumbers we had several discussions centered
> > around the need to power-on PCI devices before they can be detected on
> > the bus.
> >
> > The consensus during the conference was that we need to introduce a
> > class of "PCI slot drivers" that would handle the power-sequencing.
> >
> > After some additional brain-storming with Manivannan and the realization
> > that DT maintainers won't like adding any "fake" nodes not representing
> > actual devices, we decided to reuse existing PCI infrastructure.
> 
> Thank you. :)
> 
> > The general idea is to instantiate platform devices for child nodes of
> > the PCIe port DT node. For those nodes for which a power-sequencing
> > driver exists, we bind it and let it probe. The driver then triggers a
> > rescan of the PCI bus with the aim of detecting the now powered-on
> > device. The device will consume the same DT node as the platform,
> > power-sequencing device. We use device links to make the latter become
> > the parent of the former.
> >
> > The main advantage of this approach is not modifying the existing DT in
> > any way and especially not adding any "fake" platform devices.
> 
> Suspend/resume has been brought up already, but I disagree we can
> worry about that later unless there is and always will be no power
> sequencing during suspend/resume for all devices ever. Given the
> supplies aren't standard, it wouldn't surprise me if standard PCI
> power management isn't either. The primary issue I see with this
> design is we will end up with 2 drivers doing the same power
> sequencing: the platform driver for initial power on and the device's
> PCI driver for suspend/resume.
> 

There are actually 3 drivers need to do their own power management operations:

1. PCIe device driver - Handle the PM of the device itself (shutdown, low power)
2. PCIe pwrseq driver (this one) - Control resources of the PCIe devices
3. PCIe controller driver - Control resources of PCIe controller and Link

And all of them has different responsibilities, so I do not see an issue with
that. But what is really important is that all 3 has to work in sync and that's
quite involved. That's why I thought of dealing with that later.

Moreover, even if driver (2) doesn't do any PM operations now, it won't break
anything on the currently supported platforms (Qcom). It will be a problem once
people start adding pwrseq drivers for platforms whose controller drivers are
already handling the job which is now offloaded by this driver.

- Mani

> Rob
> 

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