[PATCH 3/4 v3] PCI: s32g: Add initial PCIe support (RC)
Vincent Guittot
vincent.guittot at linaro.org
Wed Nov 5 23:50:37 PST 2025
On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 at 07:24, Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 06:05:31PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc imx6, layerscape, stm32 maintainers for possible suspend bug]
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 08:50:46AM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 at 21:04, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 07:43:08PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > > > > Add initial support of the PCIe controller for S32G Soc family. Only
> > > > > host mode is supported.
> >
> > > > > +static void s32g_init_pcie_controller(struct s32g_pcie *s32g_pp)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > ...
> > > > > + /*
> > > > > + * Make sure we use the coherency defaults (just in case the settings
> > > > > + * have been changed from their reset values)
> > > > > + */
> > > > > + s32g_pcie_reset_mstr_ace(pci, memblock_start_of_DRAM());
> > > >
> > > > This seems sketchy and no other driver uses memblock_start_of_DRAM().
> > > > Shouldn't a physical memory address like this come from devicetree
> > > > somehow?
> > >
> > > I was using DT but has been asked to not use it and was proposed to
> > > use memblock_start_of_DRAM() instead
> >
> > Can you point me to that conversation?
> >
> > > > > + s32g_pp->ctrl_base = devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname(pdev, "ctrl");
> > > > > + if (IS_ERR(s32g_pp->ctrl_base))
> > > > > + return PTR_ERR(s32g_pp->ctrl_base);
> > > >
> > > > This looks like the first DWC driver that uses a "ctrl" resource. Is
> > > > this something unique to s32g, or do other drivers have something
> > > > similar but use a different name?
> > >
> > > AFAICT this seems to be s32g specific in the RM
> >
> > It does look like there's very little consistency in reg-names across
> > drivers, so I guess it's fine.
> >
> > > > > +static int s32g_pcie_suspend_noirq(struct device *dev)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > + struct s32g_pcie *s32g_pp = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> > > > > + struct dw_pcie *pci = &s32g_pp->pci;
> > > > > +
> > > > > + if (!dw_pcie_link_up(pci))
> > > > > + return 0;
> > > >
> > > > Does something bad happen if you omit the link up check and the link
> > > > is not up when we get here? The check is racy (the link could go down
> > > > between dw_pcie_link_up() and dw_pcie_suspend_noirq()), so it's not
> > > > completely reliable.
> > > >
> > > > If you have to check, please add a comment about why this driver needs
> > > > it when no other driver does.
> > >
> > > dw_pcie_suspend_noirq returns an error and the suspend fails
> >
> > The implication is that *every* user of dw_pcie_suspend_noirq() would
> > have to check for the link being up. There are only three existing
> > callers:
> >
> > imx_pcie_suspend_noirq()
> > ls_pcie_suspend_noirq()
> > stm32_pcie_suspend_noirq()
> >
> > but none of them checks for the link being up.
> >
>
> If no devices are attached to the bus, then there is no need to broadcast
> PME_Turn_Off and wait for L2/L3. I've just sent out a series that fixes it [1].
> Hopefully, this will allow Vincent to use dw_pcie_{suspend/resume}_noirq() APIs.
I'm going to test it
Thanks
>
> - Mani
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20251106061326.8241-1-manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com/
>
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