Re: [PATCH] PM: domains: Prevent power off for parent unless child is in deepest state

[Dmitry Osipenko]

04.02.2022 12:43, Ulf Hansson пишет:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 19:29, Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 31.01.2022 14:37, Ulf Hansson пишет:
>>> A PM domain managed by genpd may support multiple idlestates. During
>>> genpd_power_off() a genpd governor may be asked to select one of the
>>> idlestates based upon the dev PM QoS constraints, for example.
>>>
>>> However, there is a problem with the behaviour around this in genpd. More
>>> precisely, a parent-domain is allowed to be powered off, no matter of what
>>> idlestate that has been selected for the child-domain.
>>>
>>> So far, we have not received any reports about errors, possibly because
>>> there might not be platform with this hierarchical configuration, yet.
>>> Nevertheless, it seems reasonable to change the behaviour into preventing
>>> the parent-domain from being powered off, unless the deepest idlestate has
>>> been selected for the child-domain, so let's do that.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/base/power/domain.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/domain.c b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
>>> index 5db704f02e71..7f97c5cabdc2 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/base/power/domain.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
>>> @@ -636,6 +636,17 @@ static int genpd_power_off(struct generic_pm_domain *genpd, bool one_dev_on,
>>>                       atomic_read(&genpd->sd_count) > 0)
>>>               return -EBUSY;
>>>
>>> +     /*
>>> +      * The children must be in their deepest states to allow the parent to
>>> +      * be powered off. Note that, there's no need for additional locking, as
>>> +      * powering on a child, requires the parent's lock to be acquired first.
>>> +      */
>>> +     list_for_each_entry(link, &genpd->parent_links, parent_node) {
>>> +             struct generic_pm_domain *child = link->child;
>>> +             if (child->state_idx < child->state_count - 1)
>>> +                     return -EBUSY;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>>       list_for_each_entry(pdd, &genpd->dev_list, list_node) {
>>>               enum pm_qos_flags_status stat;
>>>
>>> @@ -1073,6 +1084,13 @@ static void genpd_sync_power_off(struct generic_pm_domain *genpd, bool use_lock,
>>>           || atomic_read(&genpd->sd_count) > 0)
>>>               return;
>>>
>>> +     /* Check that the children are in their deepest state. */
>>> +     list_for_each_entry(link, &genpd->parent_links, parent_node) {
>>> +             struct generic_pm_domain *child = link->child;
>>> +             if (child->state_idx < child->state_count - 1)
>>> +                     return;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>>       /* Choose the deepest state when suspending */
>>>       genpd->state_idx = genpd->state_count - 1;
>>>       if (_genpd_power_off(genpd, false))
>>
>> Hello Ulf,
> 
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
>>
>> Is this needed by a concrete SoC? It needs to be clarified in the commit
>> message, otherwise looks like this patch wasn't tested and it's unclear
>> whether this change is really needed.
> 
> It's needed on a STMicro SoC that I have been working on. However,
> it's difficult for me to test on that platform, as some SoC specific
> pieces are missing upstream (the power domain deployment in
> particular). Anyway, let me add some information about this in the
> commit log for the next version.
> 
> When it comes to testing, I am using a couple of local test dummy
> drivers. One that manages devices that gets attached to a genpd,
> mostly to execute runtime PM and dev PM QoS calls - and another that
> manages the PM domains with genpd. I have been thinking of a way to
> share these "tools" to let other people use them for testing too, but
> I haven't just got to it yet.
> 
> Besides the above, do you see any issues from Nvidia platforms point
> of view with $subject patch?

I've two main concerns:

1. This is a patch for something (STMicro SoC) that isn't fully
supported by upstream kernel and it's not clear whether it will be ever
supported at all.

2. It's not clear why behaviour of a very specific SoC should be applied
to all SoCs, especially given that the specific SoC itself isn't going
to use to this feature right now. I guess it could be okay to put this
behaviour into the core code until any other SoC will require a
different behaviour, but the commit message doesn't clarify this.

To my knowledge all NVIDIA Tegra SoCs are indifferent to this patch
because they don't have such kind of dependency between power domains.

In general, such changes usually are deferred from being upstreamed
until there is a real user, otherwise there is a risk of cluttering the
code with unused features. Do you have a time estimation in regards to
when STMicro may start to benefit from this change?