Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Pass ODT and auto power down parameters to TF-A.

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 08:45:26AM -0400, GaÃl PORTAY wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 05:01:07PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > So, for a reason that I ignore, if we try to save unecessary calls to
> > > ROCKCHIP_SIP_CONFIG_DRAM_SET_ODT_PD (odt_enable has not changed since
> > > last call), we get stalled in the call to ROCKCHIP_SIP_CONFIG_SET_RAGE
> > > that follows. The function arm_smccc_smc never returns and the device
> > > hard hang.
> > 
> > Thanks for giving it a try!
> > 
> > Did your code ensure to perform the SMC call for the first frequency
> > change? If not the problem could be that the DDR PD timings and ODT
> > resistors are not properly configured for the new frequency.
> > 
> 
> The DRAM_ODT_PD SMC call is supposed to be performed before the
> DRAM_SET_RATE; unless someone else is doing the set_rate.

However earlier the call wasn't done at all, and that didn't cause
problems.

> Does the ODT resistors should be configured for every existing
> frequency?

I don't have any background here. My initial assumption would be that
it should be enough to re-configure them when the frequency passes the
threshold in either direction.

Anyway, IIUC there shouldn't be more than 5 frequency changes per
second (polling_ms = 200), and likely no all of them would pass the
threshold, so it seems limiting the calls (if possible) would be a
micro-optimization and is probably not worth the hassle :)

Thanks

Matthias