Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] dt-bindings: pci: Add Sophgo SG2042 PCIe host

Chen Wang
2025-01-06T23:56:25Z

Hello & Happy New Year, Bjorn

On 2024/12/19 10:34, Chen Wang wrote:
> hello ~
>
> On 2024/12/11 1:33, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:19:38PM +0800, Chen Wang wrote:
>>> Add binding for Sophgo SG2042 PCIe host controller.
>>> +  sophgo,pcie-port:
> [......]
>>> +      The Cadence IP has two modes of operation, selected by a
>>> strap pin.
>>> +
>>> +      In the single-link mode, the Cadence PCIe core instance
>>> associated
>>> +      with Link0 is connected to all the lanes and the Cadence PCIe
>>> core
>>> +      instance associated with Link1 is inactive.
>>> +
>>> +      In the dual-link mode, the Cadence PCIe core instance associated
>>> +      with Link0 is connected to the lower half of the lanes and the
>>> +      Cadence PCIe core instance associated with Link1 is connected to
>>> +      the upper half of the lanes.
>> I assume this means there are two separate Root Ports, one for Link0
>> and a second for Link1?
>>
>>> +      SG2042 contains 2 Cadence IPs and configures the Cores as below:
>>> +
>>> +                     +-- Core(Link0) <---> pcie_rc0
>>> +-----------------+
>>> +                     | |                 |
>>> +      Cadence IP 1 --+                                |
>>> cdns_pcie0_ctrl |
>>> +                     | |                 |
>>> +                     +-- Core(Link1) <---> disabled
>>> +-----------------+
>>> +
>>> +                     +-- Core(Link0) <---> pcie_rc1
>>> +-----------------+
>>> +                     | |                 |
>>> +      Cadence IP 2 --+                                |
>>> cdns_pcie1_ctrl |
>>> +                     | |                 |
>>> +                     +-- Core(Link1) <---> pcie_rc2
>>> +-----------------+
>>> +
>>> +      pcie_rcX is pcie node ("sophgo,sg2042-pcie-host") defined in
>>> DTS.
>>> +      cdns_pcie0_ctrl is syscon node ("sophgo,sg2042-pcie-ctrl")
>>> defined in DTS
>>> +
>>> +      cdns_pcieX_ctrl contains some registers shared by pcie_rcX,
>>> even two
>>> +      RC(Link)s may share different bits of the same register. For
>>> example,
>>> +      cdns_pcie1_ctrl contains registers shared by link0 & link1
>>> for Cadence IP 2.
>> An RC doesn't have a Link.  A Root Port does.
>>
>>> +      "sophgo,pcie-port" is defined to flag which core(link) the rc
>>> maps to, with
>>> +      this we can know what registers(bits) we should use.
>>> +
>>> +  sophgo,syscon-pcie-ctrl:
>>> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
>>> +    description:
>>> +      Phandle to the PCIe System Controller DT node. It's required to
>>> +      access some MSI operation registers shared by PCIe RCs.
>> I think this probably means "shared by PCIe Root Ports", not RCs.
>> It's unlikely that this hardware has multiple Root Complexes.
>
> hi, Bjorn,
>
> I just double confirmed with sophgo engineers, they told me that the
> actual PCIe design is that there is only one root port under a host
> bridge. I am sorry that my original description and diagram may not
> make this clear, so please allow me to introduce this historical
> background in detail again. Please read it patiently :):
>
> The IP provided by Cadence contains two independent cores (called
> "links" according to the terminology of their manual, the first one is
> called link0 and the second one is called link1). Each core
> corresponds to a host bridge, and each host bridge has only one root
> port, and their configuration registers are completely independent.
> That is to say，one cadence IP encapsulates two independent host
> bridges. SG2042 integrates two Cadence IPs, so there can actually be
> up to four host bridges.
>
>
> Taking a Cadence IP as an example, the two host bridges can be
> connected to different lanes through configuration, which has been
> described in the original message. At present, the configuration of
> SG2042 is to let core0 (link0) in the first ip occupy all lanes in the
> ip, and let core0 (link0) and core1 (link1) in the second ip each use
> half of the lanes in the ip. So in the end we only use 3 cores, that's
> why 3 host bridge nodes are configured in dts.
>
>
> Because the configurations of these links are independent, the story
> ends here, but unfortunately, sophgo engineers defined some new
> register files to add support for their msi controller inside pcie.
> The problem is they did not separate these register files according to
> link0 and link1. These new register files are "cdns_pcie0_ctrl" /
> "cdns_pcie1_ctrl" in the original picture and dts, where the register
> of "cdns_pcie0_ctrl" is shared by link0 and link1 of the first ip, and
> "cdns_pcie1_ctrl" is shared by link0 and link1 of the second ip.
> According to my new description, "cdns_pcieX_ctrl" is not shared by
> root ports, they are shared by host bridge/rc.
>
>
> Because the register design of "cdns_pcieX_ctrl" is not strictly
> segmented according to link0 and link1, in pcie host bridge driver
> coding we must know whether the host bridge corresponds to link0 or
> link1 in the ip, so the "sophgo,link-id" attribute is introduced.
>
>
> Now I think it is not appropriate to change it to "sophgo,pcie-port".
> The reason is that as mentioned above, there is only one root port
> under each host bridge in the cadence ip. Link0 and link1 are actually
> used to distinguish the two host bridges in one ip.
>
> So I suggest to keep the original "sophgo,link-id" and with the prefix
> because the introduction of this attribute is indeed caused by the
> private design of sophgo.
>
> Any other good idea please feel free let me know.
>
> Thansk,
>
> Chen
>
>>> +required:
>>> +  - compatible
>>> +  - reg
>>> +  - reg-names
>>> +  - vendor-id
>>> +  - device-id
>>> +  - sophgo,syscon-pcie-ctrl
>>> +  - sophgo,pcie-port
>> It looks like vendor-id and device-id apply to PCI devices, i.e.,
>> things that will show up in lspci, I assume Root Ports in this case.
>> Can we make this explicit in the DT, e.g., something like this?
>>
>>    pcie@62000000 {
>>      compatible = "sophgo,sg2042-pcie-host";
>>      port0: pci@0,0 {
>>        vendor-id = <0x1f1c>;
>>        device-id = <0x2042>;
>>      };
> As I mentioned above, there is actually only one root port under a
> host bridge, so I think it is unnecessary to introduce the port subnode.
> In addition, I found that it is also allowed to directly add the
> vendor-id and device-id properties directly under the host bridge, see
> https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/blob/main/dtschema/schemas/pci/pci-host-bridge.yaml
> And refer to the dts for those products using cadence ip:
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721e-main.dtsi
>
> In this way, when executing lspci, the vendor id and device id will
> appear in the line corresponding to the pci brdge device.
>
> [......]
>
I see that you haven't replied since my last reply, so I will continue
to modify the code as I described. If you have any comments, please let
me know, thank you.

Regards,

Chen

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