Re: [PATCH] media: adv748x: Don't disable CSI-2 on link_setup

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Hi Laurent,

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:29:38PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Jacopo,
>
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 11:35:11AM +0100, Jacopo Mondi wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 09:15:21PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 12:26:59PM +0100, Jacopo Mondi wrote:
> > >> When both the media links between AFE and HDMI and the two TX CSI-2 outputs
> > >> gets disabled, the routing register ADV748X_IO_10 gets zeroed causing both
> > >> TXA and TXB output to get disabled.
> > >>
> > >> This causes some HDMI transmitters to stop working after both AFE and
> > >> HDMI links are disabled.
> > >
> > > Could you elaborate on why this would be the case ? By HDMI transmitter,
> > > I assume you mean the device connected to the HDMI input of the ADV748x.
> > > Why makes it fail (and how ?) when the TXA and TXB are both disabled ?
> >
> > I know, it's weird, the HDMI transmitter is connected to the HDMI
> > input of adv748x and should not be bothered by CSI-2 outputs
> > enablement/disablement.
> >
> > BUT, when I developed the initial adv748x AFE->TXA patches I was
> > testing HDMI capture using a laptop, and things were smooth.
> >
> > I recently started using a chrome cast device I found in some drawer
> > to test HDMI, as with it I don't need to go through xrandr as I had to
> > do when using a laptop for testing, but it seems the two behaves differently.
> >
> > Failures are of different types: from detecting a non-realisting
> > resolution from the HDMI subdevice, and then messing up the pipeline
> > configuration, to capture operations apparently completing properly
> > but resulting in mangled images.
> >
> > Do not deactivate the CSI-2 ouputs seems to fix the issue for the
> > Chromecast, and still work when capturing from laptop. There might be
> > something I am missing about HDMI maybe, but the patch not just fixes
> > the issue for me, but it might make sense on its own as disabling the
> > TXes might trigger some internal power saving state, or simply mess up
> > the HDMI link.
>
> I think this needs more investigation. It feels to me that you're
> working around an issue by chance, and it will come back to bite us
> later :-(
>

I'm sorry I really can't tell what's happening, and why it is
happening on that specific device, which I cannot debug for sure.

Ian suggested a possible cause, but I cannot tell due to my
HDMI-ignorance.

> > As disabling both TXes usually happens at media link reset time, just
> > before enabling one of them (or both), going through a full disable
> > makes little sense, even more if it triggers any sort of malfunctioning.
> >
> > Does this make sense to you?
>
> It also doesn't make too much sense to keep them both enabled when they
> don't need to be :-) You'll end up consuming more power.
>

They've alwyas been up before introduction of dynamic routing, provided
something is connected to the TX source pad in DT.
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/adv748x-core.c#L489

Power saving wise, we're not doing worse than before, and if that's a
concern, it should be identified first why the CSI-2 Tx PLL never gets
turned off:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/adv748x-core.c#L269
See "mipi_pll_en, CSI-TXA Map, Address 0xDA[0]" registrer description.

The two issues might be actually connected, I tried fixing this in the past,
but frame capture broke, and I didn't have time to investigate
fruther.

To sum up, this patch solves an issue on some devices, it does not
perform worse than what we had from a power consumption perspective,
but I agree it might work around some deeper issues it might be worth
chasing.

If I got your NAK on this, I'll keep carrying it in my tree when
testing with that device.

Thanks
  j


> > >> Fix this by preventing writing 0 to
> > >> ADV748X_IO_10 register, which gets only updated when links are enabled
> > >> again.
> > >>
> > >> Fixes: 9423ca350df7 ("media: adv748x: Implement TX link_setup callback")
> > >> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >> The issue presents itself only on some HDMI transmitters, and went unnoticed
> > >> during the development of:
> > >> "[PATCH v3 0/6] media: adv748x: Implement dynamic routing support"
> > >>
> > >> Patch intended to be applied on top of latest media-master, where the
> > >> "[PATCH v3 0/6] media: adv748x: Implement dynamic routing support"
> > >> series is applied.
> > >>
> > >> The patch reports a "Fixes" tag, but should actually be merged with the above
> > >> mentioned series.
> > >>
> > >> ---
> > >>  drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/adv748x-core.c | 3 +++
> > >>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/adv748x-core.c b/drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/adv748x-core.c
> > >> index f57cd77a32fa..0e5a75eb6d75 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/adv748x-core.c
> > >> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/adv748x-core.c
> > >> @@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ static int adv748x_link_setup(struct media_entity *entity,
> > >>
> > >>  	tx->src = enable ? rsd : NULL;
> > >>
> > >> +	if (!enable)
> > >> +		return 0;
> > >> +
> > >>  	if (state->afe.tx) {
> > >>  		/* AFE Requires TXA enabled, even when output to TXB */
> > >>  		io10 |= ADV748X_IO_10_CSI4_EN;
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart

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