From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grygorii Strashko Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] ARM: smp: Add runtime PM support for CPU hotplug Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:37:44 +0300 Message-ID: <55ED9328.2010501@ti.com> References: <2657565.lxWtPmdjyp@vostro.rjw.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from devils.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.153]:35364 "EHLO devils.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751022AbbIGNjA (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2015 09:39:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2657565.lxWtPmdjyp@vostro.rjw.lan> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Stern , Thomas Gleixner Cc: Lina Iyer , Russell King - ARM Linux , Mark Rutland , ulf.hansson@linaro.org, Lorenzo Pieralisi , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas , k.kozlowski@samsung.com, msivasub@codeaurora.org, khilman@linaro.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, agross@codeaurora.org, sboyd@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Ingo Molnar On 09/07/2015 04:04 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, September 05, 2015 11:39:20 AM Alan Stern wrote: >> On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Grygorii Strashko wrote: >> >>> On 09/04/2015 09:45 PM, Alan Stern wrote: >>>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Grygorii Strashko wrote: >>>> >>>>> There is one "small" problem with such approach :( >>>>> >>>>> - It's incompatible with -RT kernel, because PM runtime can't be used >>>>> in atomic context on -RT. >>>> >>>> Can you explain this more fully? Why can't runtime PM be used in >>>> atomic context in the -rt kernels? >>>> >>> >>> See: >>> http://lwn.net/Articles/146861/ >>> https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_does_the_CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_patch_work.3F >>> >>> spinlock_t >>> Critical sections are preemptible. The _irq operations (e.g., spin_lock_irqsave()) >>> do -not- disable hardware interrupts. Priority inheritance is used to prevent priority >>> inversion. An underlying rt_mutex is used to implement spinlock_t in PREEMPT_RT. >>> >>> As result, have to do things like: >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/18/161 >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/18/162 >>> >>> Sorry for brief reply - Friday/Sat night :) >> >> I see. Although we normally think of interrupt contexts as being >> atomic, in an -rt kernel this isn't true any more because things like >> spin_lock_irq don't actually disable interrupts. >> >> Therefore it would be correct to say that in -rt kernels, runtime PM >> can be used in interrupt context (if the device is marked as irq-safe), >> but not in atomic context. Right? > > Right. > > Whatever is suitable for interrupt context in the mainline, will be suitable > for that in -rt kernels too. Not exactly true :(, since spinlock is converted to [rt_] mutex. Usually, this difference can't be seen because on -RT kernel all or mostly all HW IRQ handlers will be forced to be threaded. For the cases, where such automatic conversion is not working, (like chained irq handlers or HW-handler+Threaded handler) the code has to be carefully patched to work properly as for non-RT as for -RT. Also, this triggers some -RT incompatibility issues, like with PM runtime or CLK framework (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg13653.html). > However, what is suitable for the idle loop > in the mainline, may not be suitable for that in -rt kernels. > > That's why raw_spin_lock/unlock() need to be used within the idle loop. Indeed. CPU hotplug/CPUIdle is guarded by local_irq_disable()/local_irq_enable(). (example of CPU hotplug RT-issue http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg438963.html). I don't want to be the final authority here as my experience with -RT is short. But, I want to point out on potential issues based on what I've already discovered and tried to fix. Thanks & regards, -grygorii