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Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 14:37:10 +0530
From: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
To: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@...aro.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv1 6/8] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Add PSCI cpuidle low
power states
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:42 PM Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 04:59:44PM +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> > Add device bindings for cpuidle states for cpu devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
> > index c761269caf80..b615bcb9e351 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
> > @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
> > compatible = "qcom,kryo";
> > reg = <0x0 0x0>;
> > enable-method = "psci";
> > + cpu-idle-states = <&LITTLE_CPU_PD>;
> > next-level-cache = <&L2_0>;
> > L2_0: l2-cache {
> > compatible = "cache";
> > @@ -107,6 +108,7 @@
> > compatible = "qcom,kryo";
> > reg = <0x0 0x1>;
> > enable-method = "psci";
> > + cpu-idle-states = <&LITTLE_CPU_PD>;
> > next-level-cache = <&L2_0>;
> > };
> >
> > @@ -115,6 +117,7 @@
> > compatible = "qcom,kryo";
> > reg = <0x0 0x100>;
> > enable-method = "psci";
> > + cpu-idle-states = <&BIG_CPU_PD>;
> > next-level-cache = <&L2_1>;
> > L2_1: l2-cache {
> > compatible = "cache";
> > @@ -127,6 +130,7 @@
> > compatible = "qcom,kryo";
> > reg = <0x0 0x101>;
> > enable-method = "psci";
> > + cpu-idle-states = <&BIG_CPU_PD>;
> > next-level-cache = <&L2_1>;
> > };
> >
> > @@ -151,6 +155,30 @@
> > };
> > };
> > };
> > +
> > + idle-states {
> > + entry-method="psci";
>
> Please add a space before and after "=".
>
> > +
> > + LITTLE_CPU_PD: little-power-down {
>
> In Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
> they seem to use labels such as CPU_SLEEP_0_0 for the first
> cluster and CPU_SLEEP_1_0 for the second cluster.
Will change this to LITTLE_CPU_SLEEP_0. I feel there is value in
keeping BIG and LITTLE in the name explicitly to improve readability
when correlating the idle state parameters to each CPU.
>
> Please also consider my comment in patch 4/8.
>
> > + compatible = "arm,idle-state";
> > + idle-state-name = "standalone-power-collapse";
> > + arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x00000004>;
> > + entry-latency-us = <40>;
> > + exit-latency-us = <40>;
>
> Where did you get the latency values from?
> Downstream seems to use qcom,latency-us = <80> for "fpc".
>
Will fix.
> (Sure downstream also defines "fpc-def", but that seems to require
> additional psci code/calls that doesn't exist upstream.)
>
> > + min-residency-us = <300>;
> > + local-timer-stop;
>
> Are you sure that the local timer is stopped?
> the equivalent DT property to "local-timer-stop" in downstream is
> "qcom,use-broadcast-timer", and this property seems to be missing
> from this node:
> https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996-pm.dtsi?h=msm-4.4#n158
>
> You could try to remove "local-timer-stop", if it is really needed,
> then the system should hang without this property.
Will review and test again.
>
> > + };
> > +
> > + BIG_CPU_PD: big-power-down {
> > + compatible = "arm,idle-state";
> > + idle-state-name = "standalone-power-collapse";
> > + arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x00000004>;
> > + entry-latency-us = <40>;
> > + exit-latency-us = <40>;
>
> Where did you get the latency values from?
> Downstream seems to use qcom,latency-us = <80> for "fpc".
>
> (Sure downstream also defines "fpc-def", but that seems to require
> additional psci code/calls that doesn't exist upstream.)
>
> > + min-residency-us = <300>;
> > + local-timer-stop;
>
> Are you sure that the local timer is stopped?
> the equivalent DT property to "local-timer-stop" in downstream is
> "qcom,use-broadcast-timer", and this property seems to be missing
> from this node:
> https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996-pm.dtsi?h=msm-4.4#n247
>
> You could try to remove "local-timer-stop", if it is really needed,
> then the system should hang without this property.
>
>
> > + };
> > + };
> > };
> >
> > thermal-zones {
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
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