[RFC PATCH v5 0/6] Exynos: Simple QoS for exynos-bus using interconnect

From: Sylwester Nawrocki
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 12:32:18 EST


This patchset adds interconnect API support for the Exynos SoC "samsung,
exynos-bus" compatible devices, which already have their corresponding
exynos-bus driver in the devfreq subsystem. Complementing the devfreq driver
with an interconnect functionality allows to ensure the QoS requirements
of devices accessing the system memory (e.g. video processing devices)
are fulfilled and to avoid issues like the one discussed in thread [1].

This patch series depends on 3 patches from Artur for the interconnect API
[2], which introduce following changes:

- exporting of_icc_get_from_provider() to avoid hard coding every graph
edge in the DT or driver source,
- relaxing the requirement on #interconnect-cells, so there is no need
to provide dummy node IDs in the DT,
- adding new field in struct icc_provider to explicitly allow configuring
node pairs from two different providers.

This series adds implementation of interconnect provider per each "samsung,
exynos-bus" compatible DT node, with one interconnect node per provider.
The interconnect code which was previously added as a part of the devfreq
driver has been converted to a separate platform driver. In the devfreq
a corresponding virtual child platform device is registered. Integration
of devfreq and interconnect frameworks is achieved through the PM QoS API.

A sample interconnect consumer for exynos-mixer is added in patches 5/6,
6/6, it is currently added only for exynos4412 and allows to address the
mixer DMA underrun error issues [1].

The series has been tested on Odroid U3 board. It is based on icc-next
branch with devfreq-next branch merged and patches [2] applied.

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Regards,
Sylwester

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Changes since v3 [3] (v4 skipped to align with patchset [1]), detailed
changes are listed at each patch:
- conversion to a separate interconnect (platform) driver,
- an update of the DT binding documenting new optional properties:
#interconnect-cells, samsung,interconnect-parent in "samsung,exynos-bus"
nodes,
- new DT properties added to the SoC, rather than to the board specific
files.

Changes since v2 [5]:
- Use icc_std_aggregate().
- Implement a different modification of apply_constraints() in
drivers/interconnect/core.c (patch 03).
- Use 'exynos,interconnect-parent-node' in the DT instead of
'devfreq'/'parent', depending on the bus.
- Rebase on DT patches that deprecate the 'devfreq' DT property.
- Improve error handling, including freeing generated IDs on failure.
- Remove exynos_bus_icc_connect() and add exynos_bus_icc_get_parent().

Changes since v1 [4]:
- Rebase on coupled regulators patches.
- Use dev_pm_qos_*() API instead of overriding frequency in
exynos_bus_target().
- Use IDR for node ID allocation.
- Reverse order of multiplication and division in
mixer_set_memory_bandwidth() (patch 07) to avoid integer overflow.


References:
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10861757/ (original issue)
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg70014.html
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20191220115653.6487-1-a.swigon@xxxxxxxxxxx
[4] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11054417/ (v1 of this RFC)
[5] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11152595/ (v2 of this RFC)


Artur ÅwigoÅ (1):
ARM: dts: exynos: Add interconnects to Exynos4412 mixer

Marek Szyprowski (1):
drm: exynos: mixer: Add interconnect support

Sylwester Nawrocki (4):
dt-bindings: exynos-bus: Add documentation for interconnect properties
interconnect: Add generic interconnect driver for Exynos SoCs
PM / devfreq: exynos-bus: Add registration of interconnect child
device
ARM: dts: exynos: Add interconnect properties to Exynos4412 bus nodes

.../devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt | 15 +-
arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4412.dtsi | 6 +
drivers/devfreq/exynos-bus.c | 17 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_mixer.c | 73 +++++++-
drivers/interconnect/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/interconnect/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/interconnect/exynos/Kconfig | 6 +
drivers/interconnect/exynos/Makefile | 4 +
drivers/interconnect/exynos/exynos.c | 185 +++++++++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 301 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/interconnect/exynos/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/interconnect/exynos/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/interconnect/exynos/exynos.c

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