Re: [RFC 0/9] power: sequencing: implement the subsystem and add first users

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On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'd like to preface the cover letter by saying right away that this
> series is not complete. It's an RFC that presents my approach and is sent
> to the list for discussion. There are no DT bindings nor docs in
> Documentation/ yet. Please review it as an RFC and not an upstreambound
> series. If the approach is accepted as correct, I'll add missing bits.
> 
> The RFC[1] presenting my proposed device-tree representation of the
> QCA6391 package present on the RB5 board - while not really officially
> accepted - was not outright rejected which is a good sign.
> 
> This series incorporates it and builds a proposed power sequencing
> subsystem together with the first dedicated driver around it. Then it
> adds first two users: the Bluetooth and WLAN modules of the QCA6391.
> 
> The Bluetooth part is pretty straightforward. The WLAN however is a PCIe
> device and as such needs to be powered-up *before* it's detected on the
> PCI bus. To that end, we modify the PCI core to instantiate platform
> devices for existing DT child nodes of the PCIe ports. 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 the above approach (both for PCI as well as
> generic power sequencers) is that we don't introduce significant changes
> in DT bindings and don't introduce new properties. We merely define new
> resources.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMRc=MckG32DQv7b1AQL-mbnYdx4fsdYWtLwCyXc5Ma7EeSAKw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#md5dc62007d12f6833d4e51658b14e0493954ba68

FWIW, booting RB5 with this patch series does give me working working
WiFI. But I do see the following splat during boot:

[    5.880411] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/platform/soc@0/1c00000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/resource0'
[    5.891938] CPU: 5 PID: 68 Comm: kworker/u16:4 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-next-20240131-00009-g079fdad54c8f #199
[    5.901927] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Robotics RB5 (DT)
[    5.908808] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[    5.914274] Call trace:
[    5.916794]  dump_backtrace+0xec/0x108
[    5.920649]  show_stack+0x18/0x24
[    5.924062]  dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x68
[    5.927826]  dump_stack+0x18/0x24
[    5.931238]  sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x80
[    5.935004]  sysfs_create_bin_file+0xf4/0x130
[    5.939480]  pci_create_attr+0x100/0x168
[    5.943509]  pci_create_sysfs_dev_files+0x6c/0xc0
[    5.948337]  pci_bus_add_device+0x60/0x114
[    5.952551]  pci_bus_add_devices+0x4c/0x7c
[    5.956762]  pci_host_probe+0x138/0x188
[    5.960700]  dw_pcie_host_init+0x290/0x334
[    5.964914]  qcom_pcie_probe+0x1f8/0x23c
[    5.968942]  platform_probe+0xa8/0xd0
[    5.972707]  really_probe+0x130/0x2e4
[    5.976469]  __driver_probe_device+0xa0/0x128
[    5.980944]  driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x1f8
[    5.985245]  __device_attach_driver+0x118/0x140
[    5.989897]  bus_for_each_drv+0xf4/0x14c
[    5.993923]  __device_attach_async_helper+0x78/0xd0
[    5.998937]  async_run_entry_fn+0x24/0xdc
[    6.003051]  process_scheduled_works+0x210/0x328
[    6.007793]  worker_thread+0x28c/0x450
[    6.011642]  kthread+0xfc/0x184
[    6.014865]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[    6.018572] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    6.023339] proc_dir_entry '0000:00/00.0' already registered

Regards,
Bjorn




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