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    ata: ahci: Add DWC AHCI SATA controller support · 33629d35
    Serge Semin authored
    Synopsys AHCI SATA controller can work pretty under with the generic
    AHCI-platform driver control. But there are vendor-specific peculiarities
    which can tune the device performance up and which may need to be fixed up
    for proper device functioning. In addition some DWC AHCI-based controllers
    may require small platform-specific fixups, so adding them in the generic
    AHCI driver would have ruined the code simplicity. Shortly speaking in
    order to keep the generic AHCI-platform code clean and have DWC AHCI
    SATA-specific features supported we suggest to add a dedicated DWC AHCI
    SATA device driver. Aside with the standard AHCI-platform resources
    getting, enabling/disabling and the controller registration the new driver
    performs the next actions.
    
    First of all there is a way to verify whether the HBA/ports capabilities
    activated in OF are correct. Almost all features availability is reflected
    in the vendor-specific parameters registers. So the DWC AHCI driver does
    the capabilities sanity check based on the corresponding fields state.
    
    Secondly if either the Command Completion Coalescing or the Device Sleep
    feature is enabled the DWC AHCI-specific internal 1ms timer must be fixed
    in accordance with the application clock signal frequency. In particular
    the timer value must be set to be Fapp * 1000. Normally the SoC designers
    pre-configure the TIMER1MS register to contain a correct value by default.
    But the platforms can support the application clock rate change. If that
    happens the 1ms timer value must be accordingly updated otherwise the
    dependent features won't work as expected. In the DWC AHCI driver we
    suggest to rely on the "aclk" reference clock rate to set the timer
    interval up. That clock source is supposed to be the AHCI SATA application
    clock in accordance with the DT bindings.
    
    Finally DWC AHCI SATA controller AXI/AHB bus DMA-engine can be tuned up to
    transfer up to 1024 * FIFO words at a time by setting the Tx/Rx
    transaction size in the DMA control register. The maximum value depends on
    the DMA data bus and AXI/AHB bus maximum burst length. In most of the
    cases it's better to set the maximum possible value to reach the best AHCI
    SATA controller performance. But sometimes in order to improve the system
    interconnect responsiveness, transferring in smaller data chunks may be
    more preferable. For such cases and for the case when the default value
    doesn't provide the best DMA bus performance we suggest to use the new
    HBA-port specific DT-properties "snps,{tx,rx}-ts-max" to tune the DMA
    transactions size up.
    
    After all the settings denoted above are handled the DWC AHCI SATA driver
    proceeds further with the standard AHCI-platform host initializations.
    
    Note since DWC AHCI controller is now have a dedicated driver we can
    discard the corresponding compatible string from the ahci-platform.c
    module. The same concerns "snps,spear-ahci" compatible string, which is
    also based on the DWC AHCI IP-core.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSerge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
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