linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add UFS support for SM8750

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Message-ID: <2d1ab1fe-6d98-4b54-910c-f371f708039d@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:33:18 +0100
From: neil.armstrong@...aro.org
To: Nitin Rawat <quic_nitirawa@...cinc.com>,
 Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>,
 Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@....qualcomm.com>
Cc: Melody Olvera <quic_molvera@...cinc.com>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
 Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley
 <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
 Avri Altman <avri.altman@....com>, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
 Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>, Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
 Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...nel.org>,
 Satya Durga Srinivasu Prabhala <quic_satyap@...cinc.com>,
 Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@...cinc.com>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-phy@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
 Manish Pandey <quic_mapa@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add UFS support for SM8750

Hi,

On 10/02/2025 12:15, Nitin Rawat wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/10/2025 3:09 PM, neil.armstrong@...aro.org wrote:
>> On 09/02/2025 16:21, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 11:47:12PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>> On 13.01.2025 10:46 PM, Melody Olvera wrote:
>>>>> Add UFS support for SM8750 SoCs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Melody Olvera <quic_molvera@...cinc.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Nitin Rawat (5):
>>>>>        dt-bindings: phy: qcom,sc8280xp-qmp-ufs-phy: Document the SM8750 QMP UFS PHY
>>>>>        phy: qcom-qmp-ufs: Add PHY Configuration support for SM8750
>>>>>        dt-bindings: ufs: qcom: Document the SM8750 UFS Controller
>>>>>        arm64: dts: qcom: sm8750: Add UFS nodes for SM8750 SoC
>>>>>        arm64: dts: qcom: sm8750: Add UFS nodes for SM8750 QRD and MTP boards
>>>>
>>>> You still need the same workaround 8550/8650 have in the UFS driver
>>>> (UFSHCD_QUIRK_BROKEN_LSDBS_CAP) for it to work reliably, or at least
>>>> that was the case for me on a 8750 QRD.
>>>>
>>>> Please check whether we can make that quirk apply based on ctrl
>>>> version or so, so that we don't have to keep growing the compatible
>>>> list in the driver.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That would be a bizarre. When I added the quirk, I was told that it would affect
>>> only SM8550 and SM8650 (this one I learned later). I'm not against applying the
>>> quirk based on UFSHC version if the bug is carried forward, but that would be an
>>> indication of bad design.
>>
>> Isn't 8750 capable of using MCQ now ? because this is the whole issue behind
>> this UFSHCD_QUIRK_BROKEN_LSDBS_CAP, it's supposed to use MCQ by default... but
>> we don't.
>>
>> Is there any news about that ? It's a clear regression against downstream, not
>> having MCQ makes the UFS driver struggle to reach high bandwidth when the system
>> is busy because we can't spread the load over all CPUs and we have only single
>> queue to submit requests.
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> There is no relation b/w LSDBS_CAP Register and MCQ support.
> That registers just indicate when MCQ support is present on any SOC,
> whether Single queue mode is supported or not on that SOC.
> 
> In SM8650 and SM86550, just the pored value of that register was incorrect which was fixed by WA but actually functionality was present and working fine.
> 
> Pored value of that register has been fixed from SM8750 onwards.

Thanks for the explanation, but this doesn't answer about the state of MCQ
for SM8550, SM8650 and SM8750. I would've expected to have MCQ for SM8750
in the first patchset.

Neil

> 
> Regards,
> Nitin
> 
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>>
>>> - Mani
>>>
>>
>