Re: [PATCH] link up validation moved to pcie-designware

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 12:43:58PM +0000, Joao Pinto wrote:
> This patch goal is to centralize in pcie-designware the link up
> validation. A new function was added to pci-designware that is
> responsible for doing such a task. This was implemented in a form that
> permits flexibility for all SoCs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joao Pinto <jpinto@synopsys.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/host/pci-dra7xx.c      | 11 +++--------
>  drivers/pci/host/pci-exynos.c      | 11 ++---------
>  drivers/pci/host/pci-imx6.c        | 11 +++--------
>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.h |  2 ++
>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-spear13xx.c  | 12 ++----------
>  6 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

> +int dw_pcie_check_link_is_up(struct pcie_port *pp, int max_ret, int sleep_min,
> +								int sleep_max)

I think "dw_pcie_wait_for_link()" would be a more descriptive name.

I doubt that the variations between drivers in number of retries and
amount of time to wait are meaningful.  I suspect most of those
numbers are made up or copied from other drivers.  So we might not
need the max_ret, sleep_min, and sleep_max parameters at all.

Even if there really are important differences, I suspect the only
important thing is the total time we're prepared to wait, and we can
leave it up to dw_pcie_wait_for_link() to decide how to split that up
into sleep ranges and retries.

> +{
> +	int retries;
> +
> +	/* check if the link is up or not */
> +	for (retries = 0; retries < max_ret; retries++) {
> +		if (dw_pcie_link_up(pp)) {
> +			dev_info(pp->dev, "link up\n");
> +			return 0;
> +		}
> +		usleep_range(sleep_min, sleep_max);
> +	}
> +
> +	dev_err(pp->dev, "phy link never came up\n");
> +
> +	return 1;
> +}