Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_port: Fix imprecise external abort for mctrl if inactive

[Tony Lindgren]

* Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> [200602 08:33]:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 11:09 AM Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 05:18:13PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > There's shouldn't be anything fundamental preventing you from adding the
> > missing resume calls to the mctrl paths even if it may require reworking
> > (and fixing) the whole RPM implementation (which would be a good thing
> > of course).
> 
> Yes, for serial core I have long standing patch series to implement
> RPM (more or less?) properly.

Yeah let's try after the merge window.

Not sure what else to do with the fix though. We currently have
8250_port.c not really aware of the hardare state for PM runtime at
least for the hang-up path.

> However, OMAP is a beast which prevents us to go due to a big hack
> called pm_runtime_irq_safe().
> Tony is aware of this and I think the above is somehow related to removal of it.

Now that we can detach and reattach the kernel serial console,
there should not be any need for pm_runtime_irq_safe() anymore :)

And the UART wake-up from deeper idle states can only happen with
help of external hardware like GPIO controller or pinctrl controller.

And for the always-on wake-up interrupt controllers we have the
Linux generic wakeirqs to wake-up serial device on events.

So I think the way to procedd with pm_runtime_irq_safe() removal
for serial drivers is to block serial PM runtime unless we have a
wakeirq configured for omaps in devicetree. In the worst case the
regression is that PM runtime for serial won't work unless properly
configured.

And the UART wakeup latency will be a bit longer compared to
pm_runtime_irq_safe() naturally.

> But I completely agree that the goal is to get better runtime PM
> implementation over all.

Yes agreed.

Regards,

Tony