RE: [PATCH] clk: qcom: gdsc: Fix handling of hw control enable/disable

From: Sricharan
Date: Tue Jan 10 2017 - 14:29:38 EST


Hi stan,

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>From: linux-arm-msm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-arm-msm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stanimir Varbanov
>Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:14 PM
>To: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; mturquette@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cc: linux-clk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; sricharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: qcom: gdsc: Fix handling of hw control enable/disable
>
>Hi Rajendra,
>
>On 01/10/2017 07:54 AM, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>> Once a gdsc is brought in and out of HW control, there is a
>> power down and up cycle which can take upto 1us. Polling on
>> the gdsc status immediately after the hw control enable/disable
>> can mislead software/firmware to belive the gdsc is already either on
>> or off, while its yet to complete the power cycle.
>> To avoid this add a 1us delay post a enable/disable of HW control
>> mode.
>>
>> Also after the HW control mode is disabled, poll on the status to
>> check gdsc status reflects its 'on' before force disabling it
>> in software.
>>
>> Reported-by: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> Stan,
>> If there was a specific issue you saw with venus because of the missing
>> delay and poll, can you check if this fixes any of that.
>
>Something more about the issue.
>
>I had re-designed venus driver on three platform drivers venus-core,
>venus-dec and venus-enc in order to be able to control those three
>power-domains (VENUS_GDSC, VENUS_CORE0_GDSC and VENUS_CORE1_GDSC).
>
>After that I abstracted MMAGIC hw on a separate mmagic driver. This
>driver just controls mmagic clocks and GDSC in its runtime_suspend and
>runtime_resume methods.
>
>The DT nodes looks like:
>
>mmagic_video {
> compatible = "qcom,msm8996-mmagic";
> clocks = <&rpmcc MSM8996_RPM_SMD_MMAXI_CLK>,
> <&mmcc MMSS_MMAGIC_AHB_CLK>,
> <&mmcc MMSS_MMAGIC_CFG_AHB_CLK>,
> <&mmcc MMAGIC_VIDEO_NOC_CFG_AHB_CLK>,
> <&mmcc MMSS_MMAGIC_MAXI_CLK>,
> <&mmcc MMAGIC_VIDEO_AXI_CLK>,
> <&mmcc SMMU_VIDEO_AHB_CLK>,
> <&mmcc SMMU_VIDEO_AXI_CLK>;
> power-domains = <&mmcc MMAGIC_VIDEO_GDSC>;
>
> video-codec {
> compatible = "qcom,msm8996-venus";
> clocks = <&mmcc VIDEO_CORE_CLK>,
> <&mmcc VIDEO_AHB_CLK>,
> <&mmcc VIDEO_AXI_CLK>,
> <&mmcc VIDEO_MAXI_CLK>;
> power-domains = <&mmcc VENUS_GDSC>;
> ...
>
> video-decoder {
> compatible = "venus-decoder";
> clocks = "subcore0";
> clock-names = <&mmcc VIDEO_SUBCORE0_CLK>;
> power-domains = <&mmcc VENUS_CORE0_GDSC>;
> };
>
> video-encoder {
> compatible = "venus-encoder";
> clocks = "subcore1";
> clock-names = <&mmcc VIDEO_SUBCORE1_CLK>;
> power-domains = <&mmcc VENUS_CORE1_GDSC>;
> };
> };
>};
>
>Note that mmagic_video is a parent dt node for smmu_video DT node so
>that clocks and mmagic_video gdsc will be enabled once smmu driver is
>instantiated by venus-core diriver.
>

mmagic_video is a parent DT for smmu_video ? , so there are no clocks
populated for the smmu node as such ?

>Now when video-dec driver calls pm_runtime_get_sync() the sequence of
>enabling is:
>
>MMAGIC_VIDEO_GDSC -> MMAGIC clocks and SMMU clocks -> VENUS_GDSC ->
>VIDEO clocks -> VENUS_CORE0_GDSC -> VIDEO subcore0 clock
>
>When video-dec platform driver calls pm_runtime_put_sync() we should
>disabling of GDSC and clocks in the reversed oder.
>
>The issue comes when I have ran video decoder, the decoder hw finish
>stream decoding and we want to suspend venus core. The issue is that
>when I start disabling SMMU_VIDEO_AXI_CLK and/or MMAGIC_VIDEO_AXI_CLK
>the system reboots.
>
>I have added a delay (200ms) before disabling mmagic clocks and then
>everything is fine again.
>
>Any idea?
>

Can you share me a branch, i can have a quick check with a t32
if there is any crash logged in the TZ buffer when the system reboots.

Regards,
Sricharan