Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp-x13s: Add bluetooth

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 02:17:38PM -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 6:05 AM Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:26:12AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:47:58PM -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:

> > > > +           vreg_s1c: smps1 {
> > > > +                   regulator-name = "vreg_s1c";
> > > > +                   regulator-min-microvolt = <1880000>;
> > > > +                   regulator-max-microvolt = <1900000>;
> > > > +                   regulator-initial-mode = <RPMH_REGULATOR_MODE_HPM>;
> > > > +                   regulator-allowed-modes = <RPMH_REGULATOR_MODE_AUTO>,
> > > > +                                             <RPMH_REGULATOR_MODE_RET>;
> > > > +                   regulator-allow-set-load;
> > >
> > > So this does not look quite right still as you're specifying an initial
> > > mode which is not listed as allowed.
> > >
> > > Also there are no other in-tree users of RPMH_REGULATOR_MODE_RET and
> > > AUTO is used to switch mode automatically which seems odd to use with
> > > allow-set-load.
> > >
> > > This regulator is in fact also used by the wifi part of the chip and as
> > > that driver does not set any loads so we may end up with a regulator in
> > > retention mode while wifi is in use.
> > >
> > > Perhaps Bjorn can enlighten us, but my guess is that this should just be
> > > "intial-mode = AUTO" (or even HPM, but I have no idea where this came
> > > from originally).
> >
> > This one probably also needs to be marked as always-on as we don't
> > currently describe the fact that the wifi part also uses s1c.

> I couldn't remember exactly why I chose HPM, and so I recreated what
> I'd done.  I looked to see what modes were available by git grepping
> the kernel sources and since they are in
> include/dt-bindings/regulator/qcom,rpmh-regulator.h with a comment
> explaining what each mode is, I picked HPM since it starts it at the
> full rated current.  As to why I chose the others... it was based on
> SMPS being mentioned in that comment block.  Since I wasn't sure what
> PFM is (and admittedly, did not look it up) I skipped it.
> 
> And you are right, we probably don't want to yank that regulator out
> from under the wifi...  will add that in v7, so I guess for v7 we want
> HPM, LPM, AUTO with AUTO being initial.  I guess I was trying to think
> that RET would allow as little power usage as possible when bluetooth
> isn't in use.

No, I think you need to stick with HPM and disallow setting the load
since doing so could impact other consumers that are not yet described.

Johan