Re: [PATCH v3] soc: imx: gpc: Turn PU domain on/off in sleep on 6qp

[Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>]

Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2018, 00:27 +0200 schrieb Ulf Hansson:
> > On 6 July 2018 at 18:46, Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> wrote:
> > On imx6qp power gating on the PU domain is disabled because of errata
> > ERR009619. However power gating during suspend/resume can still be
> > performed.
> 
> Sounds a bit hand wavy. Exactly why can it be done during system suspend/resume?

Power gating this domain in normal operation may introduce a glitch in
unrelated modules, potentially disturbing a running display scanout.
This is not a concern when the whole system enters suspend state, so
it's safe to do in this case.

Regards,
Lucas

> > 
> > Enable this by implementing SLEEP_PM_OPS in imx_pgc_power_domain_driver.
> > 
> > In order to ensure correct ordering add device links from devices inside
> > the PU domain to the pgc platform_device.
> 
> In genpd, the PM domain gets powered off after all device's
> corresponding ->suspend_noirq() callback has been invoked - and it
> also considers if there are some wakeup settings enabled, possibly
> avoiding to do the power off.
> 
> It sound like the imx's power domain driver ->power_off|on() callback
> should deal with this, to make get a consistent behavior. I understand
> that you currently can't tell under what circumstances the
> ->power_off|on() callbacks are being invoked, that may need some
> changes in genpd.
> 
> Currently we have a flag, GENPD_FLAG_ALWAYS_ON which makes genpd to
> always prevent power off. Perhaps we should add a new flag
> "GENPD_FLAG_RUNTIME_ON", which makes genpd to call the
> ->power_on|off() callbacks, but only during system wide PM.
> 
> Thoughts?

Yes, this might work for this case.

Regards,
Lucas