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From: mperttunen@nvidia•com (Mikko Perttunen)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] of: Add Tegra124 EMC bindings
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:54:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C3B6EC.9090904@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140714102954.GD9870@ulmo>

On 14/07/14 13:29, Thierry Reding wrote:
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>> Yes, this sounds sensible. I'll make such a patch. I suppose having another
>> timings table in the MC node with just the rate and mc-burst-data would
>> separate the concerns best. It occurs to me that we could also write the
>> regs in the pre-rate change notifier, but this would turn the dependency
>> around and would mean that the regs are not written when entering backup
>> rates. The latter shouldn't be a problem but the reversed dependency would,
>> so I guess a custom function is the way to go, and we need to add at least
>> one anyway.
>
> It sounds like maybe moving enough code and data into the MC driver to
> handle frequency changes would be a good move. From the above it sounds
> like all the MC driver needs to know is that a frequency change is about
> to happen and what the new frequency is.
>
> In addition to exposing things like number of DRAM banks, etc.
>

Yes, so there are two ways to do this:
1) EMC calls tegra_mc_emem_update(freq) at the correct time
2) MC has an optional clock phandle to the EMC clock and registers a 
pre-change notifier.

Both work, but the dependency is reversed. In both cases, the other 
driver is also optional. In the first case, the EMC driver can give a 
warning if the call fails. (As mentioned, if the MC_EMEM updates don't 
happen, things still work but potentially with a hefty perf loss.)
TBH, I haven't yet decided which one is better. If you have an opinion,
I'll go with it.

>> The downstream kernel also overwrites most LA registers during EMC rate
>> change without regard for the driver-set values, and we might have to read
>> those values from the device tree too. Upstream can do this in rate change
>> notifiers if needed. I'll look into this a bit more.
>
> As I understand it, the latency allowance should be specified in terms
> of the maximum amount of time that requests are delayed, so that the
> proper values for the LA registers can be recomputed on an EMC rate
> change.

That's how I understand it too, but in downstream, the LA register 
values are hardcoded into EMC tables in platform data/DTS that are just 
written into the LA registers as-is during rate change.

>
> Thierry
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-14 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-11 14:18 [PATCH 0/8] Tegra124 EMC (external memory controller) support Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH 1/8] clk: tegra124: Remove old emc_mux and emc clocks Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH 2/8] ARM: tegra: Remove TEGRA124_CLK_EMC from tegra124-car.h Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-21 22:37   ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-29  8:28     ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH 3/8] ARM: tegra: Add PLL_M_UD and PLL_C_UD to tegra124-car binding header Mikko Perttunen
2014-08-25 17:41   ` Stephen Warren
2014-09-17 13:41     ` Peter De Schrijver
2014-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH 4/8] clk: tegra124: Add PLL_M_UD and PLL_C_UD clocks Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH 5/8] of: Add Tegra124 EMC bindings Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-11 14:51   ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-11 16:01     ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-14  7:55       ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-14  8:15         ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-14  9:06           ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-14  9:31             ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-14  9:57               ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-14 10:29                 ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-14 10:54                   ` Mikko Perttunen [this message]
2014-07-14 11:10                     ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-14 12:28                       ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-11 16:43   ` Andrew Bresticker
2014-07-11 16:48     ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-21 21:28     ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-21 22:52       ` Andrew Bresticker
2014-07-22 16:45         ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-22 17:22           ` Andrew Bresticker
2014-07-22 17:34             ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-29  8:30               ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-29 15:49                 ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-31 10:48                   ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-31 11:05                     ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-31 15:32                       ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-21 22:36   ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH 6/8] ARM: tegra: Add EMC to Tegra124 device tree Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH 7/8] ARM: tegra: Add EMC timings to Jetson TK1 " Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH 8/8] clk: tegra: Add EMC clock driver Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-22 16:57   ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-29  8:47     ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-07-29 20:19       ` Mike Turquette
2014-07-29 22:14         ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-30  9:34           ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-31 19:06             ` Mike Turquette
2014-07-31 19:53               ` Stephen Warren
2014-07-31 23:08                 ` Mike Turquette
2014-08-01  6:31                   ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-08-01  8:40               ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-25 17:40 ` [PATCH 0/8] Tegra124 EMC (external memory controller) support Stephen Warren
2014-08-26  7:42   ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-08-26  7:47     ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-26  8:02       ` Mikko Perttunen
2014-09-05 10:22     ` Tomeu Vizoso
2014-09-05 10:55       ` Mikko Perttunen

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