Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Add retries for link training

From: Steev Klimaszewski
Date: Sun Oct 04 2020 - 11:45:35 EST



On 10/2/20 4:03 PM, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> On some panels hooked up to the ti-sn65dsi86 bridge chip we found that
> link training was failing. Specifically, we'd see:
>
> ti_sn65dsi86 2-002d: [drm:ti_sn_bridge_enable] *ERROR* Link training failed, link is off (-5)
>
> The panel was hooked up to a logic analyzer and it was found that, as
> part of link training, the bridge chip was writing a 0x1 to DPCD
> address 00600h and the panel responded NACK. As can be seen in header
> files, the write of 0x1 to DPCD address 0x600h means we were trying to
> write the value DP_SET_POWER_D0 to the register DP_SET_POWER. The
> panel vendor says that a NACK in this case is not unexpected and means
> "not ready, try again".
>
> In testing, we found that this panel would respond with a NACK in
> about 1/25 times. Adding the retry logic worked fine and the most
> number of tries needed was 3. Just to be safe, we'll add 10 tries
> here and we'll add a little blurb to the logs if we ever need more
> than 5.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> index ecdf9b01340f..6e12cda69b54 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@
> #define SN_NUM_GPIOS 4
> #define SN_GPIO_PHYSICAL_OFFSET 1
>
> +#define SN_LINK_TRAINING_TRIES 10
> +
> /**
> * struct ti_sn_bridge - Platform data for ti-sn65dsi86 driver.
> * @dev: Pointer to our device.
> @@ -673,6 +675,7 @@ static int ti_sn_link_training(struct ti_sn_bridge *pdata, int dp_rate_idx,
> {
> unsigned int val;
> int ret;
> + int i;
>
> /* set dp clk frequency value */
> regmap_update_bits(pdata->regmap, SN_DATARATE_CONFIG_REG,
> @@ -689,19 +692,34 @@ static int ti_sn_link_training(struct ti_sn_bridge *pdata, int dp_rate_idx,
> goto exit;
> }
>
> - /* Semi auto link training mode */
> - regmap_write(pdata->regmap, SN_ML_TX_MODE_REG, 0x0A);
> - ret = regmap_read_poll_timeout(pdata->regmap, SN_ML_TX_MODE_REG, val,
> - val == ML_TX_MAIN_LINK_OFF ||
> - val == ML_TX_NORMAL_MODE, 1000,
> - 500 * 1000);
> - if (ret) {
> - *last_err_str = "Training complete polling failed";
> - } else if (val == ML_TX_MAIN_LINK_OFF) {
> - *last_err_str = "Link training failed, link is off";
> - ret = -EIO;
> + /*
> + * We'll try to link train several times. As part of link training
> + * the bridge chip will write DP_SET_POWER_D0 to DP_SET_POWER. If
> + * the panel isn't ready quite it might respond NAK here which means
> + * we need to try again.
> + */
> + for (i = 0; i < SN_LINK_TRAINING_TRIES; i++) {
> + /* Semi auto link training mode */
> + regmap_write(pdata->regmap, SN_ML_TX_MODE_REG, 0x0A);
> + ret = regmap_read_poll_timeout(pdata->regmap, SN_ML_TX_MODE_REG, val,
> + val == ML_TX_MAIN_LINK_OFF ||
> + val == ML_TX_NORMAL_MODE, 1000,
> + 500 * 1000);
> + if (ret) {
> + *last_err_str = "Training complete polling failed";
> + } else if (val == ML_TX_MAIN_LINK_OFF) {
> + *last_err_str = "Link training failed, link is off";
> + ret = -EIO;
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> + break;
> }
>
> + /* If we saw quite a few retries, add a note about it */
> + if (!ret && i > SN_LINK_TRAINING_TRIES / 2)
> + DRM_DEV_INFO(pdata->dev, "Link training needed %d retries\n", i);
> +
> exit:
> /* Disable the PLL if we failed */
> if (ret)


Apologies for the previous HTML email, I was trying a new mail client
and... will not be switching to it.

Anyway.. again, this time in text..


Tested on the Lenovo C630, and haven’t seen the message, although I
hadn’t seen the described issue before either.

Tested-By: Steev Klimaszewski <steev@xxxxxxxx>