Re: [PATCH RFC 04/10] base: power: Add generic OF-based power domain look-up

[Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>]

Hi Tomasz,

Am Sonntag, den 23.02.2014, 18:07 +0100 schrieb Tomasz Figa:
> Hi Philipp,
> 
> On 19.02.2014 17:53, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 11.01.2014, 20:42 +0100 schrieb Tomasz Figa:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> +	pd = of_genpd_get_from_provider(&pd_args);
> >> +	if (IS_ERR(pd))
> >> +		return PTR_ERR(pd);
> >> +
> >> +	dev_dbg(dev, "adding to power domain %s\n", pd->name);
> >> +
> >> +	while (1) {
> >> +		ret = pm_genpd_add_device(pd, dev);
> >
> > Since pm_genpd_add_device is used here, no gpd_timing_data can be
> > provided. Do you have a plan to solve this? Should the timing data be
> > provided from the device tree?
> 
> Hmm, a quick grep over kernel sources for genpd_.*_add_device
> gives just a single user of __pm_genpd_name_add_device(), with custom 
> timing data:

I had added this to my work progress i.MX patches to silence the noisy
"... latency exceeded, new value ..." warnings emitted by the power
domain framework: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/320084/

[...]
> Moreover the timings used there are just defaults, which makes me wonder 
> if there is any reason to specify them explicitly. Even more interesting 
> is the fact that genpd code can measure those latencies itself.
> 
> Do you have a particular use case for those timing data or just 
> wondering? I don't think we need to implement support for them right 
> away, if there is no real need to do so. The code and bindings can be 
> extended later to handle them, if needed.

You are right, this is just superficial.

> As for whether DT is appropriate place to define them, I'm not quite 
> sure. Stop and start latencies look like hardware parameters, but state 
> save and restore are likely to be driver-specific, as it depends on 
> driver code how much time it takes to save and restore needed state 
> (e.g. driver with register cache will not need to do any state save), if 
> I understand these timing data correctly.

I have one more, on i.MX6 I manually need to enable the clocks of
devices in the power domain during the power-up sequence so that the
reset signals can propagate.
So far, I have implemented this by registering the device clocks of
devices in the power domain with pm_clk_add and then let the genpd
power_on callback temporarily enable them using pm_clk_resume:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/320085/

Whether this is needed seems to me to be a property of the power domain.
Do you think this is something we could add to of_genpd_add_to_domain,
depending on some flag set in struct generic_pm_domain?
I'd like to avoid having to register my own bus notifier and to deal
with ordering issues between that and of_genpd_notifier_call.

regards
Philipp