linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] iommu: rockchip: Handle system-wide and runtime PM

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Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:48:17 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Cc:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
	Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
	"open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..." <linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] iommu: rockchip: Handle system-wide and runtime PM

On Thursday, December 11, 2014 04:51:37 PM Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 11 December 2014 at 16:31, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org> wrote:
> > [+ Laurent Pinchart]
> >
> > Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org> writes:
> >
> >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >>>> @@ -988,11 +1107,28 @@ static int rk_iommu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>>>                 return -ENXIO;
> >>>>         }
> >>>>
> >>>> +       pm_runtime_no_callbacks(dev);
> >>>> +       pm_runtime_enable(dev);
> >>>> +
> >>>> +       /* Synchronize state of the domain with driver data. */
> >>>> +       pm_runtime_get_sync(dev);
> >>>> +       iommu->is_powered = true;
> >>>
> >>> Doesn't the runtime PM status reflect the value of "is_powered", thus
> >>> why do you need to have a copy of it? Could it perpahps be that you
> >>> try to cope with the case when CONFIG_PM is unset?
> >>>
> >>
> >> It's worth noting that this driver fully relies on status of other
> >> devices in the power domain the IOMMU is in and does not enforce the
> >> status on its own. So in general, as far as my understanding of PM
> >> runtime subsystem, the status of the IOMMU device will be always
> >> suspended, because nobody will call pm_runtime_get() on it (except the
> >> get and put pair in probe). So is_powered is here to track status of
> >> the domain, not the device. Feel free to suggest a better way, though.
> >
> > I still don't like these notifiers.  I think they add ways to bypass
> > having proper runtime PM implemented for devices/subsystems.
> 
> I do agree, but I haven't found another good solution to the problem.

For the record, I'm not liking this mostly because it "fixes" a generic problem
in a way that's hidden in the genpd code and very indirect.

> > From a high-level, the IOMMU is just another device inside the PM
> > domain, so ideally it should be doing it's own _get() and _put() calls
> > so the PM domain code would just do the right thing without the need for
> > notifiers.
> 
> As I understand it, the IOMMU (or for other similar cases) shouldn't
> be doing any get() and put() at all because there are no IO API to
> serve request from.
> 
> In principle we could consider these kind devices as "parent" devices
> to those other devices that needs them. Then runtime PM core would
> take care of things for us, right!?
> 
> Now, I am not so sure using the "parent" approach is actually viable,
> since it will likely have other complications, but I haven't
> thoroughly thought it though yet.

That actually need not be a "parent".

What's needed in this case is to do a pm_runtime_get_sync() on a device
depended on every time a dependent device is runtime-resumed (and analogously
for suspending).

The core doesn't have a way to do that, but it looks like we'll need to add
it anyway for various reasons (ACPI _DEP is one of them as I mentioned some
time ago, but people dismissed it basically as not their problem).


-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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