Re: [PATCH v3] clk: qcom: gdsc: Remove direct runtime PM calls

[Johan Hovold]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 11:30:30AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> We shouldn't be calling runtime PM APIs from within the genpd
> enable/disable path for a couple reasons.
> 
> First, this causes an AA lockdep splat[1] because genpd can call into
> genpd code again while holding the genpd lock.

> Second, this confuses runtime PM on CoachZ for the camera devices by
> causing the camera clock controller's runtime PM usage_count to go
> negative after resuming from suspend. This is because runtime PM is
> being used on the clock controller while runtime PM is disabled for the
> device.
> 
> The reason for the negative count is because a GDSC is represented as a
> genpd and each genpd that is attached to a device is resumed during the
> noirq phase of system wide suspend/resume (see the noirq suspend ops
> assignment in pm_genpd_init() for more details). The camera GDSCs are
> attached to camera devices with the 'power-domains' property in DT.
> Every device has runtime PM disabled in the late system suspend phase
> via __device_suspend_late(). Runtime PM is not usable until runtime PM
> is enabled in device_resume_early(). The noirq phases run after the
> 'late' and before the 'early' phase of suspend/resume. When the genpds
> are resumed in genpd_resume_noirq(), we call down into gdsc_enable()
> that calls pm_runtime_resume_and_get() and that returns -EACCES to
> indicate failure to resume because runtime PM is disabled for all
> devices.
> 
> Upon closer inspection, calling runtime PM APIs like this in the GDSC
> driver doesn't make sense. It was intended to make sure the GDSC for the
> clock controller providing other GDSCs was enabled, specifically the
> MMCX GDSC for the display clk controller on SM8250 (sm8250-dispcc), so
> that GDSC register accesses succeeded. That will already happen because
> we make the 'dev->pm_domain' a parent domain of each GDSC we register in
> gdsc_register() via pm_genpd_add_subdomain(). When any of these GDSCs
> are accessed, we'll enable the parent domain (in this specific case
> MMCX).
> 
> We also remove any getting of runtime PM during registration, because
> when a genpd is registered it increments the count on the parent if the
> genpd itself is already enabled.
> 
> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Taniya Das <quic_tdas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Satya Priya <quic_c_skakit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAE-0n52xbZeJ66RaKwggeRB57fUAwjvxGxfFMKOKJMKVyFTe+w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [1]
> Fixes: 1b771839de05 ("clk: qcom: gdsc: enable optional power domain support")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes from v2 (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102170717.1262547-1-swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
>  * Drop dev assignment and remove struct member
>  * Update commit text, add link to report
> 
> Changes from v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221101233421.997149-1-swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
>  * Fix ret thinko
>  * Update kerneldoc on 'dev' member

Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>

Johan