linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM: domains: Don't attach a device to genpd that corresponds to a provider

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Date:   Fri, 9 Jul 2021 15:35:20 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: domains: Don't attach a device to genpd that
 corresponds to a provider

Hi Ulf,

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 3:23 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 15:07, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 2:56 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> wrote:
> > > According to the common power domain DT bindings, a power domain provider
> > > must have a "#power-domain-cells" property in its OF node. Additionally, if
> > > a provider has a "power-domains" property, it means that it has a parent
> > > domain.
> >
> > OK.
> >
> > > It has turned out that some OF nodes that represents a genpd provider may
> > > also be compatible with a regular platform device. This leads to, during
> > > probe, genpd_dev_pm_attach(), genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_name() and
> > > genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id() tries to attach the corresponding struct device
> > > to the genpd provider's parent domain, which is wrong. Instead the genpd
> >
> > Why is that wrong?
>
> It may lead to that the struct device that corresponds to a genpd
> provider may be attached to the parent domain. In other words, the
> parent domain will not only be controlled by a child domain
> (corresponding to the provider), but also through the provider's
> struct device. As far as I can tell, this has never been the intent
> for how things should work in genpd.

Ah, you're worried about the case where the subdomain is a child of
the parent domain, but the actual subdomain controller (represented
by the platform device) isn't?

> So wrong or not, I guess it depends on what you expect to happen.
>
> Do you see an issue with changing this?

I don't have any hardware where the DTS describes a node as being
both a power domain consumer and a provider.
SH/R-Mobile uses a nested domain description in DT, but there are
no platform devices created for the nested child domains, only for
the top domain.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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