Re: [PATCH] PM / QoS: Fix default runtime_pm device resume latency

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Oct 31 2017 - 09:55:10 EST


Hi Rafael, Tero,

CC pinchartl, dri-devel

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> CC linux-renesas-soc
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Monday, October 30, 2017 11:19:08 AM CET Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Tero Kristo <t-kristo@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> > The recent change to the PM QoS framework to introduce a proper
>>>> > no constraint value overlooked to handle the devices which don't
>>>> > implement PM QoS OPS. Runtime PM is one of the more severely
>>>> > impacted subsystems, failing every attempt to runtime suspend
>>>> > a device. This leads into some nasty second level issues like
>>>> > probe failures and increased power consumption among other things.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, that's bad.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry about breaking it and thanks for the fix!
>>>>
>>>> > Fix this by adding a proper return value for devices that don't
>>>> > implement PM QoS implicitly.
>>>> >
>>>> > Fixes: 0cc2b4e5a020 ("PM / QoS: Fix device resume latency PM QoS")
>>>> > Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@xxxxxx>
>>>> > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Applied.
>>>
>>> And pushed to Linus.
>>
>> I'm afraid it is not sufficient.
>>
>> Commit 0cc2b4e5a020fc7f ("PM / QoS: Fix device resume latency PM QoS")
>> introduced two issues on Renesas platforms:
>> 1. After boot up, many devices have changed their state from "suspended"
>> to "active", according to /sys/kernel/debug/pm_genpd/pm_genpd_summary
>> (comparing that file across boots is one of my standard tests).
>> Interestingly, doing a system suspend/resume cycle restores their state
>> to "suspended".
>>
>> 2. During system suspend, the following warning is printed on
>> r8a7791/koelsch:
>>
>> i2c-rcar e6530000.i2c: runtime PM trying to suspend device but
>> active child

3. I've just bisected a seemingly unrelated issue to the same commit.
On Salvator-XS with R-Car H3, initialization of the rcar-du driver now
takes more than 1 minute due to flip_done time outs, while it took 0.12s
before:

[ 3.015035] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 3.021721] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[ 13.280738] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done] *ERROR*
[CRTC:58:crtc-3] flip_done timed out
[ 23.520707] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_commit_cleanup_done] *ERROR*
[CRTC:58:crtc-3] flip_done timed out
[ 33.760708] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done] *ERROR*
[CRTC:58:crtc-3] flip_done timed out
[ 44.000755] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_commit_cleanup_done] *ERROR*
[CRTC:58:crtc-3] flip_done timed out
[ 44.003597] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[ 54.240707] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done] *ERROR*
[CRTC:58:crtc-3] flip_done timed out
[ 64.480706] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_commit_cleanup_done] *ERROR*
[CRTC:58:crtc-3] flip_done timed out
[ 64.544876] rcar-du feb00000.display: fb0: frame buffer device
[ 64.552013] [drm] Initialized rcar-du 1.0.0 20130110 for
feb00000.display on minor 0
[ 64.559873] [drm] Device feb00000.display probed

>> Commit 2a9a86d5c81389cd ("PM / QoS: Fix default runtime_pm device resume
>> latency") fixes the second issue, but not the first.

... nor the third.

>> Reverting commits 2a9a86d5c81389cd ("PM / QoS: Fix default runtime_pm
>> device resume latency") and 0cc2b4e5a020fc7f ("PM / QoS: Fix device resume
>> latency PM QoS") fixes both.

... all three.

>> Do you have a clue?
>> Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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