Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] PM / Domains: Add GENPD_FLAG_NO_SUSPEND/RESUME flags

From: Sibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	"Nayak, Rajendra" <rnayak@codeaurora.org>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] PM / Domains: Add GENPD_FLAG_NO_SUSPEND/RESUME flags
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:21:41 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14eb0558c8ff820280bb7354cfe33326@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160071818317.4188128.15658877054019388462@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 2020-09-22 01:26, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Rafael J. Wysocki (2020-09-21 09:18:17)
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:49 PM Sibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Add GENPD_FLAG_NO_SUSPEND/RESUME flags to instruct genpd to keep the
>> > status of the PM domain unaltered during suspend/resume respectively.
>> > The flags are aimed at power domains coupled to co-processors which
>> > enter low-power modes independent to that of the application processor.
>> >
>> > Specifically the flags are to be used by the power domains exposed
>> > by the AOSS QMP driver linked to modem, adsp, cdsp remoteprocs. These
>> > power domains are used to notify the Always on Subsystem (AOSS) that
>> > a particular co-processor is up. 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 and remains unaltered during
>> > system suspend/resume.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Sibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org>
>> 
>> Applied with the Ulf's R-by along with the [2/2] as 5.10 material, 
>> thanks!
>> 
> 
> There was a bunch of discussion on this patch series and I thought the
> consensus was to not apply these patches and instead implement a custom
> qcom specific API that does this instead.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200913034603.GV3715@yoga/

The power domains which were targeted
to use the flags will be replaced by
custom qcom specific API. So let's not
pick up the patch series.

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