Re: [PATCH] media: stm32-dcmi: Set minimum cpufreq requirement

[Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>]

On 02/06/20 12:37, Benjamin GAIGNARD wrote:
> On 6/2/20 11:31 AM, Valentin Schneider wrote:
>>> @@ -99,6 +100,8 @@ enum state {
>>>
>>>   #define OVERRUN_ERROR_THRESHOLD	3
>>>
>>> +#define DCMI_MIN_FREQ	650000 /* in KHz */
>>> +
>> This assumes the handling part is guaranteed to always run on the same CPU
>> with the same performance profile (regardless of the platform). If that's
>> not guaranteed, it feels like you'd want this to be configurable in some
>> way.
> Yes I could add a st,stm32-dcmi-min-frequency (in KHz) parameter the
> device tree node.
>

Something like that - I'm not sure how well this fits with the DT
landscape, as you could argue it isn't really a description of the
hardware, more of a description of the performance expectations of the
software. I won't really argue here.

>>
>>>   struct dcmi_graph_entity {
>>>        struct v4l2_async_subdev asd;
>>>
>> [...]
>>> @@ -2020,6 +2042,8 @@ static int dcmi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>                goto err_cleanup;
>>>        }
>>>
>>> +	dcmi->policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(0);
>>> +
>> Ideally you'd want to fetch the policy of the CPU your IRQ (and handling
>> thread) is affined to; The only compatible DTS I found describes a single
>> A7, which is somewhat limited in the affinity area...
> If I move this code just before start streaming and use get_cpu(), would
> it works ?
>

AFAIA streaming_start() is not necessarily executing on the same CPU as the
one that will handle the interrupt. I was thinking you could use the IRQ's
effective affinity as a hint of which CPU(s) to boost, i.e. something like:

---
    struct cpumask_var_t visited;
    struct irq_data *d = irq_get_irq_data(irq);

    err = alloc_cpumask_var(visited, GFP_KERNEL);
    /* ... */
    for_each_cpu(cpu, irq_data_get_effective_affinity_mask(d)) {
            /* check if not already spanned */
            if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, visited))
                    continue;

            policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
            cpumask_or(visited, visited, policy->cpus);
            /* do the boost for that policy here */
            /* ... */
            cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
    }
---

That of course falls apart when hotplug gets involved, and the effective
affinity changes... There's irq_set_affinity_notifier() out there, but it
seems it's only about the affinity, not the effective_affinity, I'm not
sure how valid it would be to query the effective_affinity in that
notifier.

> Benjamin
>>
>>>        dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Probe done\n");
>>>
>>>        platform_set_drvdata(pdev, dcmi);
>>> @@ -2049,6 +2073,9 @@ static int dcmi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>
>>>        pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
>>>
>>> +	if (dcmi->policy)
>>> +		cpufreq_cpu_put(dcmi->policy);
>>> +
>>>        v4l2_async_notifier_unregister(&dcmi->notifier);
>>>        v4l2_async_notifier_cleanup(&dcmi->notifier);
>>>        media_entity_cleanup(&dcmi->vdev->entity);