6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dragan Simic dsimic@manjaro.org
commit ffcef3df680c437ca33ff434be18ec24d72907c2 upstream.
Add missing "vpcie0v9-supply" and "vpcie1v8-supply" properties to the "pcie0" node in the Pine64 RockPro64 board dtsi file. This eliminates the following warnings from the kernel log:
rockchip-pcie f8000000.pcie: supply vpcie1v8 not found, using dummy regulator rockchip-pcie f8000000.pcie: supply vpcie0v9 not found, using dummy regulator
These additions improve the accuracy of hardware description of the RockPro64 and, in theory, they should result in no functional changes to the way board works after the changes, because the "vcca_0v9" and "vcca_1v8" regulators are always enabled. [1][2] However, extended reliability testing, performed by Chris, [3] has proven that the age-old issues with some PCI Express cards, when used with a Pine64 RockPro64, are also resolved.
Those issues were already mentioned in the commit 43853e843aa6 (arm64: dts: rockchip: Remove unsupported node from the Pinebook Pro dts, 2024-04-01), together with a brief description of the out-of-tree enumeration delay patch that reportedly resolves those issues. In a nutshell, booting a RockPro64 with some PCI Express cards attached to it caused a kernel oops. [4]
Symptomatically enough, to the commit author's best knowledge, only the Pine64 RockPro64, out of all RK3399-based boards and devices supported upstream, has been reported to suffer from those PCI Express issues, and only the RockPro64 had some of the PCI Express supplies missing in its DT. Thus, perhaps some weird timing issues exist that caused the "vcca_1v8" always-on regulator, which is part of the RK808 PMIC, to actually not be enabled before the PCI Express is initialized and enumerated on the RockPro64, causing oopses with some PCIe cards, and the aforementioned enumeration delay patch [4] probably acted as just a workaround for the underlying timing issue.
Admittedly, the Pine64 RockPro64 is a bit specific board by having a standard PCI Express slot, allowing use of various standard cards, but pretty much standard PCI Express cards have been attached to other RK3399 boards as well, and the commit author is unaware ot such issues reported for them.
It's quite hard to be sure that the PCI Express issues are fully resolved by these additions to the DT, without some really extensive and time-consuming testing. However, these additions to the DT can result in good things and improvements anyway, making them perfectly safe from the standpoint of being unable to do any harm or cause some unforeseen regressions.
These changes apply to the both supported hardware revisions of the Pine64 RockPro64, i.e. to the production-run revisions 2.0 and 2.1. [1][2]
[1] https://files.pine64.org/doc/rockpro64/rockpro64_v21-SCH.pdf [2] https://files.pine64.org/doc/rockpro64/rockpro64_v20-SCH.pdf [3] https://z9.de/hedgedoc/s/nF4d5G7rg#reboot-tests-for-PCIe-improvements [4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230509153912.515218-1-vincenzopalazzodev@gmai...
Fixes: bba821f5479e ("arm64: dts: rockchip: add PCIe nodes on rk3399-rockpro64") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Vincenzo Palazzo vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com Cc: Peter Geis pgwipeout@gmail.com Cc: Bjorn Helgaas helgaas@kernel.org Reported-by: Diederik de Haas didi.debian@cknow.org Tested-by: Chris Vogel chris@z9.de Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic dsimic@manjaro.org Tested-by: Diederik de Haas didi.debian@cknow.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b39cfd7490d8194f053bf3971f13a43472d1769e.174094109... Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner heiko@sntech.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dtsi | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dtsi @@ -661,6 +661,8 @@ num-lanes = <4>; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pcie_perst>; + vpcie0v9-supply = <&vcca_0v9>; + vpcie1v8-supply = <&vcca_1v8>; vpcie12v-supply = <&vcc12v_dcin>; vpcie3v3-supply = <&vcc3v3_pcie>; status = "okay";