Re: [PATCH v8 01/34] opp: Add dev_pm_opp_sync() helper

[Viresh Kumar]

On 18-08-21, 11:28, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 18-08-21, 08:21, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> > Yes, GENPD will cache the perf state across suspend/resume and initially
> > cached value is out of sync with h/w.
> > 
> > Nothing else. But let me clarify it all again.
> 
> Thanks for your explanation.
> 
> > Initially the performance state of all GENPDs is 0 for all devices.
> > 
> > The clock rate is preinitialized for all devices to a some default rate
> > by clk driver, or by bootloader or by assigned-clocks in DT.
> > 
> > When device is rpm-resumed, the resume callback of a device driver
> > enables the clock.
> > 
> > Before clock is enabled, the voltage needs to be configured in
> > accordance to the clk rate.
> > 
> > So now we have a GENPD with pstate=0 on a first rpm-resume, which
> > doesn't match the h/w configuration. Calling dev_pm_opp_sync() sets the
> > pstate in accordance to the h/w config.
> 
> What about calling dev_pm_opp_set_rate(dev, clk_get_rate(dev)) here
> instead ? That will work, right ? The advantage is it works without
> any special routine to do so.
> 
> I also wonder looking at your gr3d.c changes, you set a set-opp
> helper, but the driver doesn't call set_opp_rate at all. Who calls it
> ?
> 
> And if it is all about just syncing the genpd core, then can the genpd
> core do something like what clk framework does? i.e. allow a new
> optional genpd callback, get_performance_state() (just like
> set_performance_state()), which can be called initially by the core to
> get the performance to something other than zero. opp-set-rate is
> there to set the performance state and enable the stuff as well.
> That's why it looks incorrect in your case, where the function was
> only required to be called once, and you are ending up calling it on
> each resume. Limiting that with another local variable is bad as well.

Ulf, this last part is for you :)

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viresh