Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] PCI: Add Qualcomm PCIe ECAM root complex driver

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Hi Rob

Excuse me for late response on this (was OOO).
On 4/10/2024 9:58 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 11:57:58AM -0700, Mayank Rana wrote:
Hi Mani

On 4/5/2024 9:17 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 10:41:15AM -0700, Mayank Rana wrote:
Hi Mani

On 4/4/2024 10:30 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 12:11:24PM -0700, Mayank Rana wrote:
On some of Qualcomm platform, firmware configures PCIe controller into
ECAM mode allowing static memory allocation for configuration space of
supported bus range. Firmware also takes care of bringing up PCIe PHY
and performing required operation to bring PCIe link into D0. Firmware
also manages system resources (e.g. clocks/regulators/resets/ bus voting).
Hence add Qualcomm PCIe ECAM root complex driver which enumerates PCIe
root complex and connected PCIe devices. Firmware won't be enumerating
or powering up PCIe root complex until this driver invokes power domain
based notification to bring PCIe link into D0/D3cold mode.


Is this an in-house PCIe IP of Qualcomm or the same DWC IP that is used in other
SoCs?

- Mani
Driver is validated on SA8775p-ride platform using PCIe DWC IP for
now.Although this driver doesn't need to know used PCIe controller and PHY
IP as well programming sequence as that would be taken care by firmware.


Ok, so it is the same IP but firmware is controlling the resources now. This
information should be present in the commit message.

Btw, there is an existing generic ECAM host controller driver:
drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c

This driver is already being used by several vendors as well. So we should try
to extend it for Qcom usecase also.

I would take it a bit further and say if you need your own driver, then
just use the default QCom driver. Perhaps extend it to support ECAM.
Better yet, copy your firmware setup and always configure the QCom h/w
to use ECAM.
Good suggestion. Although here we are having 2 set of requirements:
1. ECAM configuration
2. Managing PCIe controller and PHY resources and programming from firmware as well
Hence it is not feasible to use default QCOM driver.
If you want to extend the generic driver, that's fine, but we don't need
a 3rd.
I did consider this part before coming up with new driver. Although I felt that below mentioned functionality may not look more generic to be part of pci-host-generic.c driver.
I did review pci-host-generic.c driver for usage. although there are more
functionalityneeded for use case purpose as below:
1. MSI functionality

Pretty sure the generic driver already supports that.
I don't find any MSI support with pci-host-generic.c driver.
2. Suspend/Resume

Others might want that to work as well.
Others firmware won't have way to handle D3cold and D0 functionality handling as needed here for supporting suspend/resume as I don't find any interface for pci-host-generic.c driver to notify firmware. here we are having way to talk to firmware using GenPD based power domain usage to communicate with firmware.

3. Wakeup Functionality (not part of current change, but would be added
later)

Others might want that to work as well.
possible if suspend/resume support is available or used.
4. Here this driver provides way to virtualized PCIe controller. So VMs only
talk to a generic ECAM whereas HW is only directed accessed by service VM.

That's the existing driver. If if doesn't work for a VM, fix the VM.
Correct.
5. Adding more Auto based safety use cases related implementation

Now that's just hand waving.
Here I am trying to provide new set of changes plan to be added as part of required functionality.

Hence keeping pci-host-generic.c as generic driver where above functionality
may not be needed.

Duplicating things to avoid touching existing drivers is not how kernel
development works.
I shall try your suggestion and see how it looks in terms of code changes. Perhaps then we can have more clarity in terms of adding more
functionality into generic or having separate driver.
Rob
Regards,
Mayank




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