Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] arm/tegra: add timeout to PCIe PLL lockdetection loop

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Tue Mar 06 2012 - 14:09:22 EST


* Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 01:45 AM, Dmitry Artamonow wrote:
> > Tegra PCIe driver waits for PLL to lock using busy loop.
> > If PLL fails to lock for some reason, this leads to silent lockup
> > while booting (as PCIe code is not modular).
> >
> > Fix by adding timeout, so if PLL doesn't lock in a couple
> > of seconds, just PCIe driver fails and machine continues to boot.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Artamonow <mad_soft@xxxxxxxx>
>
> That seems reasonable. So once the mdelay discussion is resolved,
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Any idea why the PLL doesn't lock sometimes?

I've seen this happen when the 1.05V regulator (GPIO#2 of the PMU on Harmony)
isn't enabled.

Thierry

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