Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/2] soc: qcom: rpmhpd: Make power_on actually enable the domain

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Jul 07 2021 - 20:23:19 EST


Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2021-07-02 19:54:49)
> The general expectation is that powering on a power-domain should make
> the power domain deliver some power, and if a specific performace state
> is needed further requests has to be made.
>
> But in contrast with other power-domain implementations (e.g. rpmpd) the
> RPMh does not have an interface to enable the power, so the driver has
> to vote for a particular corner (performance level) in rpmh_power_on().
>
> But the corner is never initialized, so a typical request to simply
> enable the power domain would not actually turn on the hardware. Further
> more, when no more clients vote for a performance state (i.e. the
> aggregated vote is 0) the power domain would be turn off.

s/turn/turned/

>
> Fix both of these issues by always voting for a corner with non-zero
> value, when the power domain is enabled.
>
> The tracking of the lowest non-zero corner is performed to handle the
> corner case if there's ever a domain with a non-zero lowest corner, in
> which case both rpmh_power_on() and rpmh_rpmhpd_set_performance_state()
> would be allowed to use this lowest corner.
>
> Fixes: 279b7e8a62cc ("soc: qcom: rpmhpd: Add RPMh power domain driver")
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>