linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 4/5] dmaengine: pl330: add Power Management support

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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:15:12 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 4/5] dmaengine: pl330: add Power Management support

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:36:49AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> This patch adds both normal PM suspend/resume support and runtime PM
> support to pl330 DMA engine driver.
> 
> The runtime power management for pl330 DMA driver allows gating of AMBA
> clock (PDMA) in FSYS clock domain, when the device is not processing any
> requests. This is necessary to enter low power modes on Exynos SoCs
> (e.g. LPA on Exynos4x12 or W-AFTR on Exynos3250).
> 
> Runtime PM resuming of the device may happen in atomic context (during
> call device_issue_pending()) so pm_runtime_irq_safe() is used. This will
> lead only to disabling/enabling of the clock but this is sufficient for
> gating the clock and for reducing energy usage.
> 
> During system sleep the AMBA bus clock is also unprepared.

Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>

-- 
~Vinod

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