linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] devfreq: Suspend all devices on system shutdown

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Date:   Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:57:25 +0100
From:   Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:     myungjoo.ham@...sung.com,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org" 
        <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Lukasz Luba <l.luba@...tner.samsung.com>,
        Markus Reichl <m.reichl@...etechno.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfreq: Suspend all devices on system shutdown

Hi MyungJoo,

On 2019-01-28 09:05, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
>> This way devfreq core ensures that all its devices will be set to safe
>> operation points before reboot operation. There are board on which some
>> aggressive power saving operation points are behind the capabilities of
>> the bootloader to properly reset the hardware and boot the board. This
>> way one can avoid board crash early after reboot.
>>
>> Similar pattern is used in CPUfreq subsystem.
>>
>> Reported-by: Markus Reichl <m.reichl@...etechno.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
>> ---
> You are invoking ALL devfreq suspend callbacks at shutdown
> with this commit.
>
> Can you make it invoke only devices explicitly saying their needs
> to handle "SHUTDOWN" event?
>
> For example, we can add a flag at struct devfreq_dev_profile:
> "uint32_t requirement"
> , where
> 0x1: need to operate at the initial frequency for suspend
> 0x2: need to operate at the initial frequency for shutdown
> 0x4: it forgets its status at resume, reconfigure frequency at resume.
> (or reverse 0x1's semantics for the backward compatibility)

Frankly speaking this looks like an over-engineering. Switching to safe
frequency during reboot shouldn't have any negative side-effects. IMHO
such flags can be always added later, once there will be a real use case
for them.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland