Re: [PATCH v4 12/18] drm/panthor: Let l2_power_off return errors and force users to check it

[Adrian Larumbe]

Reviewed-by: Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 26.08.2026 16:56, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> The MMU logic assumes that, after a suspend, all the AS that were
> resident before the suspend are free to leave their slot because the HW
> is inactive until the next resume request. This doesn't hold if we
> ignore failures to power-off the L2 block.
> 
> Let's propagate the error from the PWR backend to
> panthor_gpu_l2_power_off(), and adjust panthor_gpu_suspend() to
> escalate to slow reset when a fast reset is not possible. Add a
> __must_check on panthor_hw_l2_power_off() to make sure new users
> don't forget that they have to check the returned value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c  |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.h |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_hw.h  |  7 ++++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.h |  2 +-
>  6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
> index 68965175105f..731da736e372 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
> @@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ void panthor_fw_unplug(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>  	ptdev->fw->vm = NULL;
>  
>  	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PM) || pm_runtime_active(ptdev->base.dev))
> -		panthor_hw_l2_power_off(ptdev);
> +		drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base, panthor_hw_l2_power_off(ptdev));
>  }
>  
>  /**
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c
> index a383b04f101e..09ebe0294691 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c
> @@ -288,9 +288,9 @@ int panthor_gpu_block_power_on(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -void panthor_gpu_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
> +int panthor_gpu_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>  {
> -	panthor_gpu_power_off(ptdev, L2, ptdev->gpu_info.l2_present, 20000);
> +	return panthor_gpu_power_off(ptdev, L2, ptdev->gpu_info.l2_present, 20000);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -446,11 +446,16 @@ int panthor_gpu_soft_reset(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>   */
>  void panthor_gpu_suspend(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>  {
> -	/* On a fast reset, simply power down the L2. */
> +	/* On a fast reset, simply power down the L2. If it fails, escalate to
> +	 * a slow reset.
> +	 */
> +	if (ptdev->reset.fast && panthor_hw_l2_power_off(ptdev)) {
> +		drm_warn(&ptdev->base, "L2 power-off failed, escalating to a slow reset.");
> +		ptdev->reset.fast = false;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (!ptdev->reset.fast)
>  		panthor_hw_soft_reset(ptdev);
> -	else
> -		panthor_hw_l2_power_off(ptdev);
>  
>  	panthor_irq_suspend(&ptdev->gpu->irq);
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.h
> index f615feb05609..4b8bae363efb 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.h
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int panthor_gpu_block_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
>  				   type ## _PWRTRANS, \
>  				   mask, timeout_us)
>  
> -void panthor_gpu_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
> +int panthor_gpu_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>  int panthor_gpu_l2_power_on(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>  int panthor_gpu_flush_caches(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
>  			     u32 l2, u32 lsc, u32 other);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_hw.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_hw.h
> index f797663893b2..4531c1239cb6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_hw.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_hw.h
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ struct panthor_hw_ops {
>  	int (*soft_reset)(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>  
>  	/** @l2_power_off: L2 power off function pointer */
> -	void (*l2_power_off)(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
> +	int (*l2_power_off)(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>  
>  	/** @l2_power_on: L2 power on function pointer */
>  	int (*l2_power_on)(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
> @@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ static inline int panthor_hw_l2_power_on(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>  	return ptdev->hw->ops.l2_power_on(ptdev);
>  }
>  
> -static inline void panthor_hw_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
> +static inline int __must_check
> +panthor_hw_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>  {
> -	ptdev->hw->ops.l2_power_off(ptdev);
> +	return ptdev->hw->ops.l2_power_off(ptdev);
>  }
>  
>  static inline bool panthor_hw_has_pwr_ctrl(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.c
> index dd7b6ef8ea20..c81e2cc053db 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.c
> @@ -512,16 +512,17 @@ int panthor_pwr_reset_soft(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>  	return panthor_pwr_reset(ptdev, PWR_COMMAND_RESET_SOFT);
>  }
>  
> -void panthor_pwr_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
> +int panthor_pwr_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>  {
>  	struct panthor_pwr *pwr = ptdev->pwr;
>  	const u64 l2_allow_mask = PWR_STATUS_DOMAIN_ALLOWED(PWR_COMMAND_DOMAIN_L2);
>  	const u64 pwr_status = gpu_read64(pwr->iomem, PWR_STATUS);
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	/* Abort if L2 power off constraints are not satisfied */
>  	if (!(pwr_status & l2_allow_mask)) {
>  		drm_warn(&ptdev->base, "Power off L2 domain not allowed");
> -		return;
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  	}
>  
>  	/* It is expected that when halting the MCU, it would power down its
> @@ -530,14 +531,17 @@ void panthor_pwr_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>  	 * host control to be powered down in the right order before powering
>  	 * down the L2.
>  	 */
> -	if (panthor_pwr_domain_force_off(ptdev, PWR_COMMAND_DOMAIN_TILER))
> -		return;
> +	ret = panthor_pwr_domain_force_off(ptdev, PWR_COMMAND_DOMAIN_TILER);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
>  
> -	if (panthor_pwr_domain_force_off(ptdev, PWR_COMMAND_DOMAIN_SHADER))
> -		return;
> +	ret = panthor_pwr_domain_force_off(ptdev, PWR_COMMAND_DOMAIN_SHADER);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
>  
> -	panthor_pwr_domain_power_off(ptdev, PWR_COMMAND_DOMAIN_L2, ptdev->gpu_info.l2_present,
> -				     PWR_TRANSITION_TIMEOUT_US);
> +	return panthor_pwr_domain_power_off(ptdev, PWR_COMMAND_DOMAIN_L2,
> +					    ptdev->gpu_info.l2_present,
> +					    PWR_TRANSITION_TIMEOUT_US);
>  }
>  
>  int panthor_pwr_l2_power_on(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.h
> index adf1f6136abc..98a9a5b24270 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_pwr.h
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ int panthor_pwr_init(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>  
>  int panthor_pwr_reset_soft(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>  
> -void panthor_pwr_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
> +int panthor_pwr_l2_power_off(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>  
>  int panthor_pwr_l2_power_on(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>  
> 
> -- 
> 2.55.0


Adrian Larumbe