[PATCH 02/15] phy-sun4i-usb: Add a helper function to update the iscr register

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Wed Mar 11 02:13:45 PDT 2015


Hi,

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 04:33 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10-03-15 11:53, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tuesday 10 March 2015 03:43 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 10-03-15 09:57, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 10 March 2015 09:04:43 Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 09-03-15 22:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>>>> On Monday 09 March 2015 21:40:15 Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>>> +void sun4i_usb_phy_update_iscr(struct phy *_phy, u32 clr, u32 set)
>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>> +       struct sun4i_usb_phy *phy = phy_get_drvdata(_phy);
>>>>>>> +       struct sun4i_usb_phy_data *data = to_sun4i_usb_phy_data(phy);
>>>>>>> +       u32 iscr;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +       iscr = readl(data->base + REG_ISCR);
>>>>>>> +       iscr &= ~clr;
>>>>>>> +       iscr |= set;
>>>>>>> +       writel(iscr, data->base + REG_ISCR);
>>>>>>> +}
>>>>>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sun4i_usb_phy_update_iscr);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would generally consider this a bad design. What is the purpose of
>>>>>> calling sun4i_usb_phy_update_iscr()
>>
>> right. That would bind the PHY driver and the controller driver and would
>> start creating problems when a different PHY is connected with the
>> controller.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are 2 different use cases for this one is to enable the dataline
>>>>> pull-ups at driver init and disable them at driver exit, this could /
>>>>> should probably be moved to the phy_init / phy_exit code for the usb0 phy
>>>>> removing the need to do this from within the sunxi musb glue.
>>>>>
>>>>> The second use-case is more tricky, for some reasons Allwinner has decided
>>>>> to not use the dedicated id-detect and vusb-sense pins of the phy they are
>>>>> using (these pins are not routed to the outside).
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead id-detect and vusb-sense are done through any $random gpio pins
>>>>> (including non irq capable pins on some designs requiring polling).
>>
>> The polling can still be done in PHY driver and can use the extcon framework
>> to report the status to controller driver no?
>
> Technically the polling can be moved to the phy driver yes, but it is not easy,
> e.g. we only need to poll when we're in otg mode rather then host-only
> or peripheral-only mode, and the mode gets set by the musb driver not phy
> the phy driver. The sunxi musb implementation uses an integrated phy, so it
> is just much easier and more logical to have all control / polling happening
> from a single module rather then from 2 different modules.
>
>>>>>
>>>>> But the musb-core still needs to know the status of the id and vbus pins,
>>
>> musb-core or the musb-glue (musb/sunxi.c in this case)?
>>>>> and gets this from the usb0-phy iscr register, which reflects the status of
>>>>> the not connected dedicated pins of the phy. The reason this can still
>>>>> work at all is because the iscr register allows the user to override
>>>>> whatever the not connected phy pins are seeing and forcing a value to
>>>>> report to the musb core as id and vbus status.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is done by these 2 functions in the musb sunxi glue:
>>>>>
>>>>> static void sunxi_musb_force_id(struct musb *musb, u32 val)
>>>>> {
>>>>>           struct sunxi_glue *glue =
>>>>> dev_get_drvdata(musb->controller->parent);
>>>>>
>>>>>           if (val)
>>>>>                   val = SUNXI_ISCR_FORCE_ID_HIGH;
>>>>>           else
>>>>>                   val = SUNXI_ISCR_FORCE_ID_LOW;
>>>>>
>>>>>           sun4i_usb_phy_update_iscr(glue->phy, SUNXI_ISCR_FORCE_ID_MASK,
>>>>> val);
>>
>> What will writing to this register lead to? call to sunxi_musb_id_vbus_det_irq
>> interrupt handler?
>
> No this changes the vbus and id status as seen by the musb core, and the musb
> responds to this, by e.g. starting a session, or when vbus does not get high
> after a session request by reporting a vbus-error interrupt.
>
> The sunxi_musb_id_vbus_det_irq handler gets triggered by edges on the gpio
> pins which are used to monitor the id and vbus status.
>
>
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> static void sunxi_musb_force_vbus(struct musb *musb, u32 val)
>>>>> {
>>>>>           struct sunxi_glue *glue =
>>>>> dev_get_drvdata(musb->controller->parent);
>>>>>
>>>>>           if (val)
>>>>>                   val = SUNXI_ISCR_FORCE_VBUS_HIGH;
>>>>>           else
>>>>>                   val = SUNXI_ISCR_FORCE_VBUS_LOW;
>>>>>
>>>>>           sun4i_usb_phy_update_iscr(glue->phy, SUNXI_ISCR_FORCE_VBUS_MASK,
>>>>> val);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> I will happily admit that these 2 functions are a better API between the
>>>>> sunxi musb
>>>>> glue and the sunxi usb phy driver. I started with the minimal
>>>>> sun4i_usb_phy_update_iscr
>>>>> approach as I wanted to keep the API as small as possible, but having 2
>>>>> functions like
>>>>> the one above, which actually reflect what is happening would indeed be
>>>>> better.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, that would definitely improve things.
>>>>
>>>>> Note that the polling of the pins cannot (easily) be moved into the phy
>>>>> driver for various
>>>>> reasons:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) It depends on dr_mode, the otg may be used in host only mode in which
>>>>> case there are no
>>>>> pins at all.
>>>>> 2) the musb set_vbus callback needs access to the pins
>>>>> 3) When id changes some musb core state changes are necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll respin the patch set to do things this way as soon as we've agreement on
>>>>> your second point.
>>>>>
>>>>>   > and why can't there be a high-level
>>>>>> PHY API for this?
>>>>>
>>>>> The current generic phy API seems to not have any bus specific methods, I
>>>>> know that
>>>>> in the long run people want to get rid of struct usb_phy, so maybe we should
>>>>> consider
>>>>> adding bus specific methods to the generic phy API for things like otg.
>>>>>
>>>>> If we decide to add bus specific methods, then the question becomes if having
>>>>>
>>>>> int phy_usb_set_id_detect(struct phy *phy, bool val);
>>>>> int phy_usb_set_vbus_detect(struct phy *phy, bool val);
>>>>>
>>>>> Functions in the generic phy API is a good idea, or if this is too sunxi
>>>>> specific,
>>>>> I'm fine with doing this either way. If we want to go the generic phy route
>>>>> I'll split this in 2 patches, one adding these 2 generic functions &
>>>>> phy-ops, and
>>>>> 1 doing the sunxi implementation.
>>
>> Please don't do that. We don't want to be bloating phy framework with platform
>> specific hooks.
>
> Right, that was my feeling too. I believe that using sunxi specific phy functions
> here is best given that we're dealing with an otg controller + phy both if which

Using platform specific PHY functions dissolves the very purpose of creating
the PHY framework. We have to find a better way.

Thanks
Kishon



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