Re: [PATCH 0/3] Allow specifying an S2RAM sleep on pre-SYSTEM_SUSPEND PSCI impls

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 14.11.2024 2:10 AM, Elliot Berman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 03:22:56PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> Certain firmwares expose exactly what PSCI_SYSTEM_SUSPEND does through
>> CPU_SUSPEND instead. Inform Linux about that.
>> Please see the commit messages for a more detailed explanation.
>>
>> This is effectively a more educated follow-up to [1].
>>
>> The ultimate goal is to stop making Linux think that certain states
>> only concern cores/clusters, and consequently setting
>> pm_set_suspend/resume_via_firmware(), so that client drivers (such as
>> NVMe, see related discussion over at [2]) can make informed decisions
>> about assuming the power state of the device they govern.
>>
>> If this series gets green light, I'll push a follow-up one that wires
>> up said sleep state on Qualcomm SoCs across the board.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20231227-topic-psci_fw_sus-v1-0-6910add70bf3@linaro.org/
>> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/20241024-topic-nvmequirk-v1-1-51249999d409@oss.qualcomm.com/
>>
> 
> I got a bit confused, but I think I might've pieced it together. Konrad
> wants to support s2ram (not clear why) on Qualcomm SoCs from 2015-2023.
> On these SoCs, PSCI_SYSTEM_SUSPEND (s2ram) isn't supported but doing
> s2idle gets you the same effect. You'd like s2ram to work, so you
> provide a way to replace the PSCI_SYSTEM_SUSPEND param with
> (effectively) the CPU_SUSPEND command. If this is the wrong
> understanding, please correct me.
> 
> Could patch 2 be sent separately? I think it seems fine without the
> rest of the series.
> 
> I'm not sure why you'd like to support s2ram. Is it *only* that you'd
> like to be able to set pm_set_supend/resume_via_firmware()? I hope this
> doesn't sound silly: what if you register a platform_s2idle_ops for the
> relevant SoCs which calls pm_set_suspend/resume_via_firwmare()?

S2RAM is what you get after entering a certain state, but currently
it's presented as just another (s2idle) idle state.

That means some hardware that may need to be reinitialized, isn't as
Linux has no clue it might have lost power.

One of such cases is the PCIe block, with storage drivers specifically
looking for pm_suspend_via_firmware, but that's unfortunately not the
whole list.

Konrad