Re: [PATCH v5 04/21] dt-bindings: Add doc for the Ingenic TCU drivers

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On 03/10/2018 14:51, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> 
> Le 3 oct. 2018 2:47 PM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> a
> écrit :
>> 
>> On 03/10/2018 12:32, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>>> 
>>> Le 1 oct. 2018 10:48, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> On 31/07/2018 00:01, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> [ ... ]
>>>> 
>>>>>>> +- ingenic,timer-channel: Specifies the TCU channel that
>>>>>>>  should be used as +  system timer. If not provided, the
>>>>>>> TCU channel 0 is used for the system timer. + +- 
>>>>>>> ingenic,clocksource-channel: Specifies the TCU channel
>>>>>>> that should be used +  as clocksource and sched_clock. It
>>>>>>> must be a different channel than the one +  used as
>>>>>>> system timer. If not provided, neither a clocksource nor
>>>>>>> a +  sched_clock is instantiated.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> clocksource and sched_clock are Linux specific and don't
>>>>>> belong in DT. You should define properties of the hardware
>>>>>> or use existing properties like interrupts or clocks to
>>>>>> figure out which channel to use. For example, if some
>>>>>> channels don't have an interrupt, then use them for
>>>>>> clocksource and not a clockevent. Or you could have timers
>>>>>> that run in low-power modes or not. If all the channels are
>>>>>> identical, then it shouldn't matter which ones the OS
>>>>>> picks.
>>>> 
>>>> It can't work in this case because the pmw and the timer driver
>>>> are not communicating and the first one can stole a channel to
>>>> the last one.
>>> 
>>> In that particular case the timer driver will always request its
>>>  channels first; with no timer set the system hangs before 
>>> subsys_initcall, and the PWM driver is a subnode of the timer
>>> node, so is probed only after the timer probed.
>>> 
>>>>> We already talked about that. All the TCU channels can be
>>>>> used for PWM. The problem is I cannot know from the driver's
>>>>> scope which channels will be free and which channels will be
>>>>> requested for PWM. You suggested that I parse the devicetree
>>>>> for clients, and I did that in the V3/V4 patchset. But it
>>>>> only works for clients requesting through devicetree, not
>>>>> from platform code or even sysfs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> One thing I can try is to dynamically change the channels the
>>>>>  system timer and clocksource are using when the current ones
>>>>> are requested for PWM. But that sounds hardcore...
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, it is :/
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for letting you wasting time and effort to write an
>>>> overkill code not suitable for upstream.
>>>> 
>>>> A very gross thought, wouldn't be possible to "register" a
>>>> channel from the timer driver code in a shared data area (but
>>>> well self-encapsulated) and the pwm code will check such
>>>> channel isn't in use ?
>>> 
>>> Probably, but it's the contrary I need to do. The timer driver
>>> code can use any channel, and probes first. The PWM driver code
>>> must use specific channels, and probes last. So either the timer
>>> driver knows what channels it can't use, thanks to a device
>>> property, or it adapts itself when a channel in use is requested
>>> for PWM, which is what I tried in v7.
>> 
>> When you say "must use specific channels", where is coming this 
>> information ?
> 
> If the backlight for the LCD is connected to the pin that corresponds
> to PWM1, then you must use the TCU channel 1. It's that simple.

Is it a runtime detection or is it hardcoded somewhere ?

(just trying to understand the whole picture)

>>> I think we could find a way to use a devicetree property that
>>> doesn't trigger Rob. That would still be the easiest and cleanest
>>> solution.
>>> 
>>> Maybe "ingenic,reserved-channels-mask", which would contain a
>>> mask of channels that can only be used by the timer driver. And
>>> what the timer driver does with these channels, would be specific
>>> to the implementation and would not appear in the bindings. I
>>> hope Rob can work with that.
>>> 
>>> -Paul


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