Re: [PATCH v3 13/13] platform/x86: intel_cht_int33fe: Replacing the old connections with references

Hans de Goede
2019-04-17T11:15:39Z

Hi,

On 17-04-19 13:04, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:52:15AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 17-04-19 11:32, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:19:28AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 17-04-19 08:39, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:35:36PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12-04-19 15:41, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
>>>>>>> Now that the software nodes support references, and the
>>>>>>> device connection API support parsing fwnode references,
>>>>>>> replacing the old connection descriptions with software node
>>>>>>> references. Relying on device names when matching the
>>>>>>> connection would not have been possible to link the USB
>>>>>>> Type-C connector and the DisplayPort connector together, but
>>>>>>> with real references it's not problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The DisplayPort ACPI node is dag up, and the drivers own
>>>>>>> software node for the DisplayPort is set as the secondary
>>>>>>> node for it. The USB Type-C connector refers the software
>>>>>>> node, but it is now tied to the ACPI node, and therefore any
>>>>>>> device entry (struct drm_connector in practice) that the
>>>>>>> node combo is assigned to.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The USB role switch device does not have ACPI node, so we
>>>>>>> have to wait for the device to appear. Then we can simply
>>>>>>> assign our software node for the to the device.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So as promised I've been testing this series and this commit
>>>>>> breaks type-c functionality on devices using this driver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem is that typec_switch_get() and typec_mux_get()
>>>>>> after this both return the same pointer, which is pointing
>>>>>> to the switch, so typec_mux_get() is returning the wrong
>>>>>> pointer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is not surprising since the references for both are
>>>>>> both pointing to the fwnode attached to the piusb30532 devices:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> args[0].fwnode = data->node[INT33FE_NODE_PI3USB30532];
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So the class_find_device here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> static void *typec_switch_match(struct device_connection *con, int ep,
>>>>>> void *data)
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> struct device *dev;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if (con->fwnode) {
>>>>>> if (con->id && !fwnode_property_present(con->fwnode, con->id))
>>>>>> return NULL;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dev = class_find_device(&typec_mux_class, NULL, con->fwnode,
>>>>>> fwnode_match);
>>>>>> } else {
>>>>>> dev = class_find_device(&typec_mux_class, NULL,
>>>>>> con->endpoint[ep], name_match);
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> return dev ? to_typec_switch(dev) : ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Simply returns the first typec_mux_class device registered.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see 2 possible solutions to this problem:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Use separate typec_mux_class and typec_orientation_switch_class-es
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) Merge struct typec_switch and struct typec_mux into a single struct,
>>>>>> so that all typec_mux_class devices have the same memory layout, add
>>>>>> a subclass enum to this new merged struct and use that to identify
>>>>>> which of the typec_mux_class devices with the same fwnode pointer we
>>>>>> want.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the correct fix is that we supply separate nodes for both
>>>>> device entries.
>>>>
>>>> That is not going to work since the (virtual) mux / orientation-switch
>>>> devices are only registered once the driver binds to the piusb30532 i2c
>>>> device, so when creating the nodes we only have the piusb30532 i2c device.
>>>
>>> It's not a problem, that's why we have the software nodes. The nodes
>>> can be created before the device entires. The node for pi3usb30532
>>> will just be the parent node for the new nodes we add for the mux and
>>> switch.
>>>
>>>> I've been thinking some more about this and an easy fix is to have separate
>>>> fwnode_match functions for typec_switch_match and typec_mux_match and have
>>>> them check that the dev_name ends in "-mux" resp. "-switch" that requires
>>>> only a very minimal change to "usb: typec: Registering real device entries for the muxes"
>>>> and then everything should be fine.
>>>
>>> I don't want to do anymore device name matching unless we have to, and
>>> here we don't have to. We can name the nodes for those virtual mux and
>>> switch, and then just do fwnode_find_named_child_node() in
>>> pi3usb30532.c for both of them.
>>
>> Ok.
>>
>>>> Note that another problem with this series which I noticed while testing
>>>> is that the usb-role-switch is not being found at all anymore after
>>>> this ("Replacing the old connections with references") patch. I still need
>>>> start debugging that.
>>>
>>> OK, I'll wait for you results on that.
>>
>> I understand that you want to wait with doing a v4 until this is resolved,
>> but can you (privately) send me a v3.5 fixing the mux/switch issue so that
>> I can test that (and get the problem out of the way for debugging the other
>> stuff) ?
>>
>> I've also just replied to the following patch with a review remark:
>> [PATCH v3 11/13] platform/x86: intel_cht_int33fe: Provide fwnode for the USB connector
>>
>> Since you need to respin the series anyways, it would be good if you can
>> address that too.
>
> Sure thing. I don't have time today to prepare the patches for you to
> test today, nor tomorrow depending I'm a travelling or not, so this may
> have wait for next week (Friday's off) :-(

Note I'm on vacation myself next week, Monday I'm still reading email and
I can run some tests, next week Tuesday - Friday I'm off.

Regards,

Hans