From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org>,
Maulik Shah <mkshah@codeaurora.org>,
Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
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Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>,
Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@codeaurora.org>,
lsrao@codeaurora.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] drivers: firmware: psci: Add hierarchical domain idle states converter
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 16:15:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200207161547.GB8342@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPDyKFoZ+QQFdG3yQ5wGpg2Z5c9WksUhresGz02o3HVrGt1UhQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 04:52:52PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 15:48, Lorenzo Pieralisi
> <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:32:28PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > > I understand the arguments for using PC vs OSI and agree with it. But
> > > > > what in PSCI is against Linux knowing when the last core is powering
> > > > > down when the PSCI is configured to do only Platform Cordinated.
> > > >
> > > > Nothing :D. But knowing the evolution and reasons for adding OSI in the
> > > > PSCI specification and having argued about benefits of OSI over PC for
> > > > years and finally when we have it in mainline, this argument of using
> > > > PC for exact reasons why OSI evolved is something I can't understand
> > > > and I am confused.
> > > >
> > > > > There should not be any objection to drivers knowing when all the cores
> > > > > are powered down, be it reference counting CPU PM notifications or using
> > > > > a cleaner approach like this where GendPD framwork does everything
> > > > > cleanly and gives a nice callback. ARM architecture allows for different
> > > > > aspects of CPU access be handled at different levels. I see this as an
> > > > > extension of that approach.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > One thing that was repeatedly pointed out during OSI patch review was no
> > > > extra overhead for PC mode where firmware can make decisions. So, just
> > > > use OSI now and let us be done with this discussion of OSI vs PC. If PC
> > > > is what you think you need for future, we can revert all OSI changes and
> > > > start discussing again :-)
> > >
> > > Just to make it clear, I fully agree with you in regards to overhead
> > > for PC-mode. This is especially critical for ARM SoCs with lots of
> > > cores, I assume.
> > >
> > > However, the overhead you refer to, is *only* going to be present in
> > > case when the DTS has the hierarchical CPU topology description with
> > > "power-domains". Because, that is *optional* to use, I am expecting
> > > only those SoC/platforms that needs to manage last-man activities to
> > > use this layout, the others will remain unaffected.
> >
> > In PC mode not only there is no need but it is wrong to manage
> > any last-man activity in the kernel. I wonder why we are still
> > talking about this to be honest.
>
> I guess the discussion is here because there is a use case to consider now.
>
If this is what Bjorn presented in his email, I have responded to that.
If it's any different, please let us know the complete details.
> For sure, we agree on what is the best solution. But this is rather
> about what can we do to improve the current situation, if we should do
> anything.
>
Sure, and I haven't found a reason to do that in OSPM yet(as part of the
discussion in this thread)
> >
> > Code to handle PSCI platform coordinated mode has been/is in
> > the kernel today and that's all is needed according to the PSCI
> > specifications.
>
> PSCI specifies CPU power management, not SoC power management. If
> these things were completely decoupled, I would agree with you, but
> that's not the case. Maybe SCMI, etc, helps with this in future.
>
Why does that not work even if they are not decoupled. The IO/device
that share with CPU votes from OSPM and the CPU/Cluster from PSCI in
PC mode. There is no argument there, but why it needs to be done in OSPM
is the objection here.
> Anyway, my fear is that not many ARM vendors implements OSI support,
> but still they have "last-man-activities" to deal with. This is not
> only QCOM.
>
I am interested to hear from them. And the same question to same too as
above.
> I guess an option would be to add OSI support to the public ARM
> Trusted Firmware, then we could more easily point to that - rather
> than trying to mitigate the problem on the kernel side.
>
I would say go for it. But don't mix responsibility of OSPM in PC vs OSI.
We have discussed this for years and I hope this discussion ends ASAP.
I don't see any point in dragging this any further.
--
Regards,
Sudeep
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-07 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-03 13:35 [PATCH v3 0/7] Add RSC power domain support Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] drivers: qcom: rpmh: fix macro to accept NULL argument Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] drivers: qcom: rpmh: remove rpmh_flush export Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] dt-bindings: soc: qcom: Add RSC power domain specifier Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] drivers: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Add RSC power domain support Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] drivers: firmware: psci: Add hierarchical domain idle states converter Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 17:08 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-04 4:52 ` Maulik Shah
2020-02-04 15:21 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-05 12:23 ` Maulik Shah
2020-02-05 14:06 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-05 15:55 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-05 16:18 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-06 8:45 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-06 20:45 ` Lina Iyer
2020-02-07 11:20 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-07 12:32 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-07 14:48 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-02-07 15:52 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-07 16:15 ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2020-02-08 10:25 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-10 10:31 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-07 16:05 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-06 21:11 ` Bjorn Andersson
2020-02-07 11:25 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Add cpuidle low power states Maulik Shah
2020-02-04 23:15 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2020-02-05 12:07 ` Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Convert to the hierarchical CPU topology layout Maulik Shah
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