FW: [PATCH] mmc: mmci: Gate the clock in runtime suspend to save power

[ulf.hansson@linaro.org (Ulf Hansson)]

On 13 December 2012 02:51, Kevin Liu <keyuan.liu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-mmc-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-mmc-owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Linus Walleij
>> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:54 AM
>> To: Ulf Hansson
>> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux; Ulf Hansson; linux-mmc at vger.kernel.org; Chris Ball; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: mmci: Gate the clock in runtime suspend to save power
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> On 12 December 2012 07:53, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> 1) Turn on MMC_CLKGATE for this driver (select from Kconfig)
>>>> which means that the ios will be called with f=0 whenever
>>>> the card is unused, taking into account the required number
>>>> of clocks to the card.
>>>
>>> I think MMC_CLKGATE was a good initiative in the past. But that was
>>> before runtime pm was there to use. Runtime pm suits much better for
>>> handling clock gating and other runtime power save actions that could
>>> be possible for a host driver to do.
>>>
>>> I would even suggest the MMC_CLKGATE should be removed from the
>>> protocol layer, once we see that all host drivers that used it has
>>> switch to runtime pm.
>>
>> Ah now I remember that you've actually even explained this to me ...
>> memory is too short sometimes. But I follow this idea.
>>
>> Then we have only the coordination between runtime suspend
>> and suspend proper to iron out.
>>
>> Russell's concern is valid if suspend() will not wait for runtime_suspend()
>> to complete the last cycle before suspending.

A valid point, thanks for pointing this out clearly Linus!

Anyway, this need to be thought of as future step, since this patch is
not changing anything to that sequence as Kevin also is pointing out.

So, the next step is to figure how we can properly do similar actions
as in the runtime_suspend callback but as part of the suspend sequence
instead and at the same time cope with 8 clock cycles. I will push a
patch for this later, so then we can discuss more about that.

>>
>
> pm_runtime_get_noresume is called before suspend and there are
> sdhci_runtime_pm_get/sdhci_runtime_pm_put within sdhci suspend/resume
> function. So the actual runtime_suspend won't be called after suspend
> finished. So it's same as original code without pm_runtime during
> suspend/resume.
>
>> Hm this sounds scaringly familiar to what we've discussed with
>> Kevin Hilman et al recently...
>>

May I have your Acks on this patch?

Kind regards
Ulf Hansson