Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Add cpu and llcc BWMON (=> interconnect issue)

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 06:33:41PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 17/01/2023 18:27, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > 
> >>> which would set the initially bandwidths to 0 and determine the actually
> >>> needed bandwidth. But since the driver isn't probed the initial
> >>> bandwidths stay at INT_MAX.
> >>>
> >>> This isn't actually an issue with this patch, but how the interconnect
> >>> framework deals with devices that are registered on the bus, but aren't
> >>> probed (yet). Not sure how this would be best fixed. Georgi, do you have
> >>> any ideas?
> >>
> >> Why the device is not probed (yet)? If it is registered, it will come
> >> soon during boot up.
> > 
> > Because CONFIG_QCOM_ICC_BWMON is not enabled for the board in question (see
> > above). It could be enabled as a short term mitigtion, however we shouldn't
> > require drivers to be enabled just because the DT has a corresponding node.
> 
> It's the same case as with all other interconnect leafs/consumers. The
> same behavior if you do not have it enabled, right? If not, I wonder
> what is here different?

Right, this is a general issue. The problem on sc7280 (and probably other
Qualcomm SoCs) is that the interconnect link at full throttle prevents the
SoC from entering its low power mode (AOSS sleep) during system suspend.
On many boards this might go unnoticed, on herobrine the condition is
detected by the embedded controller (EC) and considered a failed suspend,
which results in waking up the system.