Re: [PATCH 0/12] PM / sleep: Driver flags for system suspend/resume

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Fri Oct 20 2017 - 02:05:27 EST


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>>>>> In this regards as we consider genpd being a trivial PM domain, those
>>>>> examples your bring up above is too me also examples of trivial PM
>>>>> domains. Especially because they don't deal with wakeups, as that is
>>>>> taken care of by the drivers, right!?
>>>>
>>>> Not directly, for example, omap device framework has noirq callback implemented
>>>> which forcibly disable all devices which are not PM runtime suspended.
>>>> while doing this it calls drivers PM .runtime_suspend() which may return
>>>> non 0 value and in this case device will be left enabled (powered) at suspend for
>>>> wake up purposes (see _od_suspend_noirq()).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, I had that feeling that omap has some trickyness going on. :-)
>>>
>>> I sure that can be fixed in the omap PM domain, although
>>
>> ...slipped with my fingers.. here is the rest of the reply...
>>
>> ..of course that require us to use another way for drivers to signal
>> to the omap PM domain that it needs to stay powered as to deal with
>> wakeup.
>>
>> I can have a look at that more closely, to see if it makes sense to change.
>>
>
> Also, additional note here. some IPs are reused between OMAP/Davinci/Keystone,
> OMAP PM domain have some code running at noirq time to dial with devices left
> in PM runtime enabled state (OMAP PM runtime centric), while Davinci/Keystone haven't (clock_ops.c),
> so pm_runtime_force_* API is actually possibility now to make the same driver work
> on all these platforms.

That sounds great!

Also, in the end it would be nice to also convert the OMAP PM domain
to genpd. I think most of the needed infrastructure is already there
to do that.

Kind regards
Uffe