Skip to content
Commit 67211aad authored by Jim Quinlan's avatar Jim Quinlan Committed by Bjorn Helgaas
Browse files

PCI: brcmstb: Add mechanism to turn on subdev regulators

Add a mechanism to identify standard PCIe regulators in the DT, allocate
them, and turn them on before the rest of the bus is scanned during
pci_host_probe().

The allocated structure that contains the regulators is stored in the port
driver dev.driver_data field.  Here is a point-by-point of how and when
this mechanism is activated:

If:
    -- PCIe RC driver sets pci_ops {add,remove)_bus to
       pci_subdev_regulators_{add,remove}_bus during its probe.
    -- There is a DT node "RB" under the host bridge DT node.
    -- During the RC driver's pci_host_probe() the add_bus callback
       is invoked where (bus->parent && pci_is_root_bus(bus->parent)
       is true

Then:
    -- A struct subdev_regulators structure will be allocated and
       assigned to bus->dev.driver_data.
    -- regulator_bulk_{get,enable} will be invoked on &bus->dev
       and the former will search for and process any
       vpcie{12v,3v3,3v3aux}-supply properties that reside in node "RB".
    -- The regulators will be turned off/on for any unbind/bind operations.
    -- The regulators will be turned off/on for any suspend/resumes, but
       only if the RC driver handles this on its own.  This will appear
       in a later commit for the pcie-brcmstb.c driver.

The unabridged reason for doing this is as follows.  We would like the
Broadcom STB PCIe root complex driver (and others) to be able to turn
off/on regulators[1] that provide power to endpoint[2] devices.  Typically,
the drivers of these endpoint devices are stock Linux drivers that are not
aware that these regulator(s) exist and must be turned on for the driver to
be probed.  The simple solution of course is to turn these regulators on at
boot and keep them on.  However, this solution does not satisfy at least
three of our usage modes:

  1. For example, one customer uses multiple PCIe controllers, but wants
     the ability to, by script invoking and unbind, turn any or all of them
     and their subdevices off to save power, e.g. when in battery mode.

  2. Another example is when a watchdog script discovers that an endpoint
     device is in an unresponsive state and would like to unbind, power
     toggle, and re-bind just the PCIe endpoint and controller.

  3. Of course we also want power turned off during suspend mode.  However,
     some endpoint devices may be able to "wake" during suspend and we need
     to recognise this case and veto the nominal act of turning off its
     regulator.  Such is the case with Wake-on-LAN and Wake-on-WLAN support
     where the PCIe endpoint device needs to be kept powered on in order to
     receive network packets and wake the system.

In all of these cases it is advantageous for the PCIe controller to govern
the turning off/on the regulators needed by the endpoint device.  The first
two cases can be done by simply unbinding and binding the PCIe controller,
if the controller has control of these regulators.

[1] These regulators typically govern the actual power supply to the
    endpoint chip.  Sometimes they may be the official PCIe socket
    power -- such as 3.3v or aux-3.3v.  Sometimes they are truly
    the regulator(s) that supply power to the EP chip.

[2] The 99% configuration of our boards is a single endpoint device
    attached to the PCIe controller.  I use the term endpoint but it could
    possibly mean a switch as well.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220106160332.2143-6-jim2101024@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJim Quinlan <jim2101024@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
parent 830aa6f2
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment