Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: qrb5165-rb5: Disable cpuidle states

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 04:40:15PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 16:09, Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 15:01, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 01:57:34PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 at 16:53, Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Disable cpuidle states for RB5. These cpuidle states
> > > > > made the device highly unstable and it runs into the
> > > > > following crash frequently:
> > > > >
> > > > > [    T1] vreg_l11c_3p3: failed to enable: -ETIMEDOUT
> > > > > [    T1] qcom-rpmh-regulator 18200000.rsc:pm8150l-rpmh-regulators: ldo11: devm_regulator_register() failed, ret=-110
> > > > > [    T1] qcom-rpmh-regulator: probe of 18200000.rsc:pm8150l-rpmh-regulators failed with error -110
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: 32bc936d7321 ("arm64: dts: qcom: sm8250: Add cpuidle states")
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb5165-rb5.dts | 8 ++++++++
> > > > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb5165-rb5.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb5165-rb5.dts
> > > > > index cc003535a3c5..f936c41bfbea 100644
> > > > > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb5165-rb5.dts
> > > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb5165-rb5.dts
> > > > > @@ -251,6 +251,14 @@ qca639x: qca639x {
> > > > >
> > > > >  };
> > > > >
> > > > > +&LITTLE_CPU_SLEEP_0 {
> > > > > +       status = "disabled";
> > > > > +};
> > > > > +
> > > > > +&BIG_CPU_SLEEP_0 {
> > > > > +       status = "disabled";
> > > > > +};
> > > > > +
> > > > >  &adsp {
> > > > >         status = "okay";
> > > > >         firmware-name = "qcom/sm8250/adsp.mbn";
> > > > > --
> > > > > 2.25.1
> > > >
> > > > Disabling the CPU idlestates, will revert us back to using only the WFI state.
> > > >
> > > > An option that probably works too is to just drop the idlestate for
> > > > the CPU cluster. Would you mind trying the below and see if that works
> > > > too?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Indeed this is was I suggested to check initially. But I was surprised to
> > > see IIUC, Amit just disabled CPU states with above change and got it working.
> > > So it is not cluster state alone causing the issue, is it somehow presence
> > > of both cpu and cluster states ? Am I missing something here.
> > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8250.dtsi
> > > > b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8250.dtsi
> > > > index c32227ea40f9..c707a49e8001 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8250.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8250.dtsi
> > > > @@ -700,7 +700,6 @@ CPU_PD7: cpu7 {
> > > >
> > > >                 CLUSTER_PD: cpu-cluster0 {
> > > >                         #power-domain-cells = <0>;
> > > > -                       domain-idle-states = <&CLUSTER_SLEEP_0>;
> > >
> > > How about just marking CLUSTER_SLEEP_0 state disabled ? That looks cleaner
> > > than deleting this domain-idle-states property here. Also not sure if DTS
> > > warnings will appear if you delete this ?
> >
> > Hi, I did try disabling CLUSTER_SLEEP_0: cluster-sleep-0 {} in
> > domain-idle-states {} but that didn't help. That's why I end up
> > disabling individual cpu states in idle-states {}.
> 
> Yep, this boils down to the fact that genpd doesn't check whether the
> domain-idle-state is disabled by using of_device_is_available(). See
> genpd_iterate_idle_states().
> 

Yes I found that but can't that be fixed with a simple patch like below ?

> That said, I suggest we go with the above one-line change. It may not
> be as clean as it could be, but certainly easy to revert when the
> support for it has been added in a newer kernel.
>

I don't like removing the state. It means it doesn't have the state rather
than i"it has state but is not working and hence disabled".

Will handling the availability of the state cause any issues ?

Regards,
Sudeep

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diff --git i/drivers/base/power/domain.c w/drivers/base/power/domain.c
index ead135c7044c..6471b559230e 100644
--- i/drivers/base/power/domain.c
+++ w/drivers/base/power/domain.c
@@ -2952,6 +2952,10 @@ static int genpd_iterate_idle_states(struct device_node *dn,
                np = it.node;
                if (!of_match_node(idle_state_match, np))
                        continue;
+
+               if (!of_device_is_available(np))
+                       continue;
+
                if (states) {
                        ret = genpd_parse_state(&states[i], np);
                        if (ret) {