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PCI/portdrv: add mechanism to turn on subdev regulators
Adds a mechanism inside the root port device 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(). A root complex driver can
leverage this mechanism by setting the pci_ops methods add_bus and
remove_bus to pci_subdev_regulators_{add,remove}_bus.
The allocated structure that contains the regulators is stored in
dev.driver_data.
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 by 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 PCIe
end-point device needs to be kept powered on in order to receive network
packets and wake-up 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 a 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
possible mean a switch as well.
Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan <jim2101024@gmail.com>- Loading branch information