Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM / Domains: Add GENPD_FLAG_SUSPEND_ON flag

[Sibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org>]

On 2020-08-17 14:14, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 19:26, Sibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2020-08-13 18:04, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 19:03, Sibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Uffe,
>> >> Thanks for taking time to review the
>> >> series!
>> >>
>> >> On 2020-08-12 15:15, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 21:03, Sibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> This is for power domains which needs to stay powered on for suspend
>> >> >> but can be powered on/off as part of runtime PM. This flag is aimed at
>> >> >> power domains coupled to remote processors which enter suspend states
>> >> >> independent to that of the application processor. Such power domains
>> >> >> are turned off only on remote processor crash/shutdown.
>> >> >
>> >> > As Kevin also requested, please elaborate more on the use case.
>> >> >
>> >> > Why exactly must the PM domain stay powered on during system suspend?
>> >> > Is there a wakeup configured that needs to be managed - or is there a
>> >> > co-processor/FW behaviour that needs to be obeyed to?
>> >>
>> >> Yes this is a co-processor behavior that
>> >> needs to be obeyed. Specifically application
>> >> processor notifies the Always on Subsystem
>> >> (AOSS) that a particular co-processor is up
>> >> using the power domains exposed by AOSS QMP
>> >> driver. AOSS uses this information to wait
>> >> for the co-processors to suspend before
>> >> starting its sleep sequence. The application
>> >> processor powers off these power domains only
>> >> if the co-processor has crashed or powered
>> >> off.
>> >
>> > Thanks for clarifying!
>> >
>> > Although, can you please elaborate a bit more on the actual use case?
>> > What are the typical co-processor and what drivers are involved in
>> > managing it?
>> 
>> The co-processors using the power domains
>> exposed by qcom_aoss driver are modem,
>> audio dsp, compute dsp managed using
>> qcom_q6v5_mss and qcom_q6v5_pas driver.
>> 
>> >
>> > As you may know, runtime PM becomes disabled during system suspend of
>> > a device. Which means, if the driver tries to power off the
>> > coprocessor (via calling pm_runtime_put() for example), somewhere in
>> > the system suspend phase of the corresponding device, its attached PM
>> > domain stays powered on when managed by genpd.
>> 
>> The drivers aren't really expected
>> do anything during suspend/resume
>> pretty much because the co-processors
>> enter low-power modes independent to
>> that of the application processor. On
>> co-processor crash the remoteproc core
>> does a pm_stay_awake followed by a
>> pm_relax after crash recovery.
> 
> Okay, thanks again for clarifying. You have convinced me about the
> need for a new flag to cope with these use cases.
> 
> Would you mind updating the commit message with some of the
> information you just provided?
> 
> Additionally, to make it clear that the flag should be used to keep
> the PM domain powered on during system suspend, but only if it's
> already powered on - please rename the flag to GENPD_FLAG_NO_SUSPEND,
> and update the corresponding description of it in the header file.

Thanks, naming it ^^ makes more sense :)

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/340a7aafcf0301ff3158a4e211992041@codeaurora.org/

Also we wouldn't want to power on
runtime suspended power domains with
the NO_SUSPEND flag set, on resume as
explained ^^. Do you agree with that
as well?

> 
> [...]
> 
> Kind regards
> Uffe

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