Re: [RFC 0/2] Add workaround for core wake-up on IPI for i.MX8MQ

[Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>]

On 02.07.19 13:33, Abel Vesa wrote:
> On 19-07-02 08:47:19, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
>> On 28.06.19 10:54, Abel Vesa wrote:
>>> On 19-06-23 13:47:26, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
>>>> On 10.06.19 14:13, Abel Vesa wrote:
>>>>> This is another alternative for the RFC:
>>>>> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flkml.org%2Flkml%2F2019%2F3%2F27%2F545&data=02%7C01%7Cabel.vesa%40nxp.com%7Ccfc582f9977d479b7dda08d6feb9258a%7C686ea1d3bc2b4c6fa92cd99c5c301635%7C0%7C0%7C636976468485275045&sdata=L%2Byn29%2FBS3KMjm9eCPBTZBTl30PmZywSjIj11bMQw5c%3D&reserved=0
>>>>>
>>>>> This new workaround proposal is a little bit more hacky but more contained
>>>>> since everything is done within the irq-imx-gpcv2 driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically, it 'hijacks' the registered gic_raise_softirq __smp_cross_call
>>>>> handler and registers instead a wrapper which calls in the 'hijacked' 
>>>>> handler, after that calling into EL3 which will take care of the actual
>>>>> wake up. This time, instead of expanding the PSCI ABI, we use a new vendor SIP.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also have the patches ready for TF-A but I'll hold on to them until I see if
>>>>> this has a chance of getting in.
>>>>
>>>> Let's leave out of the picture for now, how generally applicable and
>>>> mergable your changes are. I'd like to reproduce what you do and test
>>>> cpuidle on imx8mq:
>>>>
>>>> When applying your changes here and the corresponding ATF changes (
>>>> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fabelvesa%2Farm-trusted-firmware%2Ftree%2Fimx8mq-err11171&data=02%7C01%7Cabel.vesa%40nxp.com%7Ccfc582f9977d479b7dda08d6feb9258a%7C686ea1d3bc2b4c6fa92cd99c5c301635%7C0%7C0%7C636976468485275045&sdata=VT3duSl70DNxcY8Ev4FFrHlWoOjkcckeM8BgxrSkr8A%3D&reserved=0 if
>>>> I got that right) I don't yet see any difference in the SoC heating up
>>>> under zero load. __cpu_do_idle() is called about every 1ms (without your
>>>> changes, that was even more often but I'm not yet sure if that means
>>>> anything).
>>>
>>> You will most probably not see any change in the SoC temp since the cpuidle
>>> only touches the A53s. There are way many more IPs in the SoC that could
>>> heat it up. If you want some real numbers you'll have to measure the power
>>> consumtion on VDD_ARM rail. If you don't want to go through that much trouble
>>> you can use the idlestat tool to measure the times each A53 speends in cpu-sleep
>>> state.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> What I also see is that I get about 10x more "arch_timer" (int.3, GICv3)
>>>> interrupts than without your changes.
>>
>>
>> thanks for getting back at me here. This is run on the imx8mq
>> librem5-devkit with your wakeup-workaround applied. Typical measurements
>> under zero load look like this:
>>
>> sudo idlestat --trace -f /tmp/mytrace -t 10 -p -c -w
>> Log is 10.000395 secs long with 31194 events
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> | C-state  |  min   |  max    |  avg    |  total | hits | over | under |
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> | clusterA                                                             |
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> |     WFI |   14us |  3.99ms |  3.90ms |   9.93s | 2543 |    0 |     0 |
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> |          cpu0                                                        |
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> |     WFI |   14us |  3.99ms |  3.89ms |   9.96s | 2561 |    0 |     0 |
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ...
>>
> 
> I don't see the cpu-sleep state at all in your idlestat log. Maybe the cpuidle
> isn't enabled. Or probably the workaround itself is not applied. You'll have
> to look into that.
> 
> Here is how it looks like with the workaround enabled:
> 
> Log is 10.001685 secs long with 1175 events
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | C-state  |   min    |   max    |   avg    |   total  | hits  |  over | under |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | clusterA                                                                     |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |      WFI |      2us |  50.04ms |  29.63ms |    9.99s |   337 |     0 |     0 |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |             cpu0                                                             |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |      WFI |     11us |  50.04ms |  40.44ms |    9.62s |   238 |     0 |   219 |
> | cpu-sleep |    537us |  50.58ms |  14.11ms | 366.94ms |    26 |     7 |     0 |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |             cpu1                                                             |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |      WFI |     11us | 539.04ms |  93.20ms |    5.78s |    62 |     0 |    38 |
> | cpu-sleep |    536us | 607.90ms | 183.38ms |    4.22s |    23 |    12 |     0 |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |             cpu2                                                             |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |      WFI |     41us | 265.99ms |  17.51ms | 332.66ms |    19 |     0 |    11 |
> | cpu-sleep |    568us |    6.56s |    1.38s |    9.67s |     7 |     2 |     0 |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |             cpu3                                                             |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |      WFI |   7.94ms | 881.50ms | 367.81ms |    1.10s |     3 |     0 |     3 |
> | cpu-sleep |    549us |    2.02s | 808.72ms |    8.90s |    11 |     1 |     0 |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> You can see that the cpu2 was once for 6.56 seconds (out of 10s) in cpu-sleep.
> 

So I run this ATF tree
https://github.com/abelvesa/arm-trusted-firmware/tree/imx8mq-err11171
and, on top of "v5.2-rc7" I have your commits
("irqchip: irq-imx-gpcv2: Add workaround for i.MX8MQ ERR11171") and
("arm64: dts: imx8mq: Add idle states and gpcv2 wake_request broken
property") applied.

Then simply enabled CONFIG_ARM_CPUIDLE.

(I also use the "imx-cpufreq-dt" driver, but this should be unrelated here).

I do see the possible cpuidle states:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle$ cat state*/name

WFI

cpu-sleep

but idlestat doesn't see it or it is (thus) never used. Do you know a
needed change I might be missing?

thanks again,
                                martin