Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] PM: domains: Drop/restore performance state votes for devices at system PM

[Ulf Hansson]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 13:15, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 12:20:57PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 11:34, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > Recent changes in genpd drops and restore performance state votes for
> > > devices during runtime PM.
>
> > After a second thought, it looks like we maybe should defer to apply
> > this final patch of the series. At least until we figured out how to
> > address the below issue:
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> > So, I noticed that we have things like "regulator-fixed-domain", that
> > uses "required-opps" to enable/disable a regulator through the
> > dev_pm_set_performance_state() interface. We likely don't want to drop
> > the performance state internally in genpd when genpd_suspend_noirq()
> > gets called, for the corresponding struct device for the regulator.
>
> > I guess if genpd should drop performance states like $subject patch
> > suggest, we need some kind of additional coordination, that allows a
> > subsystem/driver to inform genpd when it should avoid it. Or something
> > along those lines.
>
> I'm not sure what you're looking for from me here - was there a concrete
> question or somehing?

Nope, not really, sorry if that was not clear.

I just wanted to loop you in, as to make sure that we don't change
something at the PM domain level, which may not fit well with the
regulator implementation.

Kind regards
Uffe