[RESEND PATCH 2/2] PCI: rockchip: Add quirk to disable RC's ASPM L0s

Shawn Lin shawn.lin at rock-chips.com
Tue Nov 29 16:41:45 PST 2016


Hi Rob,

On 2016/11/29 23:34, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Shawn Lin <shawn.lin at rock-chips.com> wrote:
>> Rockchip's RC outputs 100MHz reference clock but there are
>> two methods for PHY to generate it.
>>
>> (1)One of them is to use system PLL to generate 100MHz clock and
>> the PHY will relock it and filter signal noise then outputs the
>> reference clock.
>>
>> (2)Another way is to share Soc's 24MHZ crystal oscillator with
>> PHY and force PHY's DLL to generate 100MHz internally.
>>
>> When using case(2), the exit from L0s doesn't work fine occasionally
>> due to the broken design of RC receiver's logical circuit. So even if
>> we use extended-synch, it still fails for PHY to relock the bits from
>> FTS sometimes. This will hang the system.
>>
>> Maybe we could argue that why not use case(1) to avoid it? The reason
>> is that as we could see the reference clock is derived from system PLL
>> and the path from it to PHY isn't so clean which means there are some
>> noise introduced by power-domain and other buses can't be filterd out
>> by PHY and we could see noise from the frequency spectrum by oscilloscope.
>> This makes the TX compatibility test a little difficult to pass the spec.
>> So case(1) and case(2) are both used indeed now. If using case(2), we
>> should disable RC's L0s support, and that is why we need this property to
>> indicate this quirk.
>>
>> Also after checking quirk.c, I noticed there is already a quirk for
>> disabling L0s unconditionally, quirk_disable_aspm_l0s. But obviously we
>> shouldn't do that as mentioned above that case(1) could still works fine
>> with L0s.
>>
>> Reported-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen at rock-chips.com>
>> Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris at chromium.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin at rock-chips.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/rockchip-pcie.txt | 2 ++
>>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-rockchip.c                        | 9 +++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/rockchip-pcie.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/rockchip-pcie.txt
>> index ba67b39..cfa44a7 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/rockchip-pcie.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/rockchip-pcie.txt
>> @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Required properties:
>>  Optional Property:
>>  - ep-gpios: contain the entry for pre-reset gpio
>>  - num-lanes: number of lanes to use
>> +- quirk,aspm-no-l0s: RC won't support ASPM L0s. This property is needed if
>
> quirk is not a vendor. Drop it.

I guess you want me to drop the "quirk" prefix and just use
aspm-no-l0s instaed?

>
>> +       using 24MHz OSC for RC's PHY.
>>  - vpcie3v3-supply: The phandle to the 3.3v regulator to use for PCIe.
>>  - vpcie1v8-supply: The phandle to the 1.8v regulator to use for PCIe.
>>  - vpcie0v9-supply: The phandle to the 0.9v regulator to use for PCIe.
>
>
>


-- 
Best Regards
Shawn Lin




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