On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 14:53, Stephan Gerhold [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 12:20:57PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:

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+ Mark Brown, Dmitry Baryshkov

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 11:34, Ulf Hansson [off-list ref] wrote:

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Recent changes in genpd drops and restore performance state votes for
devices during runtime PM.

For the similar reasons, but to avoid the same kind of boilerplate code in
device PM callbacks for system sleep in subsystems/drivers, let's drop and
restore performance states votes in genpd for the attached devices during
system sleep.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <redacted>

After a second thought, it looks like we maybe should defer to apply
this final patch of the series. At least until we figured out how to
address the below issue:

So, I noticed that we have things like "regulator-fixed-domain", that
uses "required-opps" to enable/disable a regulator through the
dev_pm_set_performance_state() interface.

Not directly related to your concern, but related to another discussion
we had recently: To me, this looks mostly like another solution for
voting for performance states without doing full DVFS, also known as
assigned-performance-states [1] or required-opps on devices [2]. :)

It's just wrapped in a regulator interface here. Actually, if we
implement [2], the regulator-fixed-domain should mostly just become some
sort of simple wrapper around runtime PM for the regulator device, since
the required-opp might be applied automatically then.

Honestly, I am not sure about what the regulator-fixed-domain intends
to model, but I assume it's something that fits well to be modelled as
a plain regulator, to start with.

Perhaps Mark can chime in and spread some light over this?

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/1622095949-2014-1-git-send-email-rnayak@codeaurora.org/ (local)
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/YLYV3ov%2FiBffZMg4@gerhold.net/ (local)

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We likely don't want to drop the performance state internally in genpd
when genpd_suspend_noirq() gets called, for the corresponding struct
device for the regulator.

So your concern is that the performance state is dropped during suspend
even though the regulator core thinks the regulator stays enabled?

Yes.

I played with regulator-fixed-domain a bit and I would say this is
already broken (unless you rely on one of the side effects I mentioned
in [3]). The power domain gets powered off entirely during system
suspend, and then the performance state won't have any effect either.

Right, I get your point.

Although, this isn't a problem, because the on/off and performance
states are today considered as orthogonal in gendp. Well, at least
currently until/if we decide to change this.

I guess we would need some way to say that this device should only be
managed through runtime PM and never automatically suspended during
system suspend?

Yes!

For the on/off state, genpd uses the system wakeup interface to
understand whether the device is used in a wakeup path, see the call
to device_wakeup_path() in genpd_finish_suspend().
If that's the case the PM domain stays powered on during system suspend.

Potentially we could use the same interface (or something similar) to
support these kinds of cases.

Stephan

[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/YLkOAyydZMnxkEy+@gerhold.net/ (local)

Kind regards
Uffe