Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: pbias: use untranslated address to program pbias regulator

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>]

Hi Mark,

On Monday 31 August 2015 08:22 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 04:14:07PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> On Tuesday 25 August 2015 07:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 01:03:04PM +0300, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>>>> On 08/19/2015 09:11 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>>>> So substract this address from the start of the resource to get the
>>>>> offset?  Or provide a wrapper function in the resource code which does
>>>>> that.  
>>>
>>>> I'd be very appreciated if you have and can share any thought on
>>>> How can we get this absolute base address to substract?
>>>
>>> Ask the syscon device for its resource?  Or have it provide an absolute
>>
>> Even if we get the absolute address of syscon, we have to do the
>> subtraction only for the newer dtbs (previous dtbs already have only the
>> offset). Do you recommend adding a new property to differentiate between
>> older dtbs and newer dtbs? Any other suggestions here?
> 
> Hang on.  This is the first I've heard of any DTs not just having
> absolute addresses.  How does any of this work - has it ever worked, and
> is the situation completely understood?  My original concern with this

Before commit d919501feffa8715147582c3ffce96fad0c7016f ARM: dts: dra7:
add minimal l4 bus layout with control module support, the dt was like

ocp {
	dra7_ctrl_general: tisyscon@4a002e00 {
		compatible = "syscon";
		reg = <0x4a002e00 0x7c>;
	};

	pbias_regulator: pbias_regulator {
		compatible = "ti,pbias-omap";
		reg = <0 0x4>;
		syscon = <&dra7_ctrl_general>;
	};
};

Here platform_get_resource in pbias driver returns '0' which is
populated in vsel_reg and enable_reg. And regulator_enable_regmap uses
the base address from tisyscon@4a002e00 which is '0x4a002e00' and offset
from enable_reg which is '0' inorder to write to the pbias register.

But after commit d919501fef, the dt became like this (after a couple of
fixes)

ocp {
	l4_cfg: l4@4a000000 {
		compatible = "ti,dra7-l4-cfg", "simple-bus";
		ranges = <0 0x4a000000 0x22c000>;

		scm: scm@2000 {
			compatible = "ti,dra7-scm-core", "simple-bus";
			reg = <0x2000 0x2000>;
			ranges = <0 0x2000 0x2000>;

			scm_conf: scm_conf@0 {
				compatible = "syscon", "simple-bus";
				reg = <0x0 0x1400>;
				ranges = <0 0x0 0x1400>;

				pbias_regulator: pbias_regulator {
					compatible = "ti,pbias-omap";
					reg = <0xe00 0x4>;
					syscon = <&scm_conf>;
                                };
			};
		};
	};
};

Here platform_get_resource in pbias driver returns '4a002e00' which is
populated in vsel_reg and enable_reg. And regulator_enable_regmap uses
the base address from scm_conf@0 which is '0x4a002000' and offset from
enable_reg which is '4a002e00' inorder to write to the pbias register
and it results in a abort.

> was that I coudn't understand the commit log and your original response
> seemed to indicate that we always have the absolute address :(  Perhaps

We started having the absolute address only after the dt change (commit
d919501fef and a couple of more dt fixes).

> this is something to do with the brief mention of having moved the DT
> node for some reason?
> 
> We at least need some sort of coherent explanation of the problem and a
> comprehensible fix to go with it.  Right now it seems like things are
> just being moved about to hide problems without either of these things
> which seems like it makes the code less clear and more fragile.

hmm.. IMO the actual problem was modelling the 'offset' as a resource
(by populating the offset in 'reg' property) which was added when the
initial pbias dt node was created. And now since the pbias dt node is
being moved around, it's causing inadvertent address translation
breaking the pbias driver. IMHO the value in 'reg' property of pbias dt
node should be treated as 'offset' instead of address 'resource' and
that's what my patch tried to do.
> 
>>> address based interface for that matter?
> 
>> Syscon doesn't directly expose any API's to write to it's register.
>> Rather it uses regmap APIs to read/write to it's register. I'm not sure
>> if it's possible to add regmap APIs to write to a register with absolute
>> address. Any hints?
> 
> Yes, I'm aware that it is regmap based!  What I am suggesting is that if
> people are making DTs like yours with devices that are children of the
> syscon then presumably it might be useful for it to allow client drivers
> to pass absolute addresses in so that it can translate for them.

Arnd, Lee?

Thanks
Kishon