Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] soc: qcom: rpmpd: Add a powerdomain driver to model corners

[David Collins]

Hello Rajendra,

On 05/30/2018 03:14 AM, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> On 05/30/2018 02:47 PM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 25 May 2018 at 12:01, Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>>> +               pm_genpd_init(&rpmpds[i]->pd, NULL, true);
>>
>> Question: Is there no hierarchical topology of the PM domains. No
>> genpd subdomains?
> 
> The hierarchy if any is all handled by the remote core (RPM in this case).
> For Linux its just a flat view.

There is one special case that we'll need to handle somehow.  The APPS
vlvl request for VDD_MX needs to be greater than or equal to the vlvl
request for VDD_CX.  Can you please add the necessary code to achieve
this?  RPMh hardware doesn't handle this hardware requirement due to
concerns about modem use case latency.

Please note that this is handled in a somewhat hacky manner [1] with the
downstream rpmh-regulator driver by specifying VDD_MX as the parent of
VDD_CX and VDD_MX_AO as the parent of VDD_CX_AO with a dropout voltage of
-1.  That way, enabling CX causes MX to be enabled and voltage level
requests are propagated from CX to MX (the -1 is ignored because it is
rounded up within the sparse vlvl numbering space).

Thanks,
David

[1]:
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845-regulator.dtsi?h=msm-4.9#n135

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