Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: riscv-sbi: Stop using non-retentive suspend

Anup Patel
2022-11-23T07:13:48Z

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 12:20 PM Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/23/22 00:41, Anup Patel wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:57 AM Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/23/22 00:10, Anup Patel wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:08 AM Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Anup,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 11/22/22 23:35, Anup Patel wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 10:41 AM Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> wrote:
> >>>>>> On 11/22/22 09:28, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> >>>>>>> I also think we should stop entering non-retentive suspend until we can
> >>>>>>> sort out how reliably wake up from it, as the SBI makes that a
> >>>>>>> platform-specific detail. If the answer there is "non-retentive suspend
> >>>>>>> is fine on the D1 as long as we don't use the SBI timers" then that
> >>>>>>> seems fine, we just need some way to describe that in Linux -- that
> >>>>>>> doesn't fix other platforms and other interrupts, but at least it's a
> >>>>>>> start.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We need some way to describe the situation from the SBI implementation
> >>>>>> to Linux.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Non-retentive suspend is fine on the D1 as long as either one of these
> >>>>>> conditions is met:
> >>>>>> 1) we don't use the SBI timers, or
> >>>>>> 2) the SBI timer implementation does not use the CLINT
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> And it is up to the SBI implementation which timer hardware it uses, so
> >>>>>> the SBI implementation needs to patch this information in to the DT at
> >>>>>> runtime.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rather than SBI implementation patching information in DT, it is much
> >>>>> simpler to add a quirk in RISC-V timer driver for D1 platform (i.e. based
> >>>>> on D1 compatible string in root node).
> >>>>
> >>>> It would be simpler, but it would be wrong, as I just explained.
> >>>>
> >>>> Only the SBI implementation knows if the SBI timer extension can wake
> >>>> any given CPU from any given non-retentive suspend state.
> >>>
> >>> The SBI implementation would derive this information from platform
> >>> compatible string which is already available to the Linux kernel so
> >>> why does SBI implementation have to patch the DTB and put the
> >>> same information in a different way ?
> >>
> >> It is not the same information. The SBI implementation also chooses, at
> >> runtime, which timer hardware (CLINT, platform-specific MMIO timer,
> >> etc.) is used to implement the SBI timer extension. The value of the
> >> sbi-timer-can-wake-cpu property depends on this choice.
> >>
> >> Using D1 as an example, there are two MMIO timer peripherals ("sun4i"
> >> TIMER and "sun5i" HSTIMER) where the sbi-timer-can-wake-cpu property
> >> should be set. But the property should not be set if the CLINT is used
> >> by SBI.
> >>
> >> It would be perfectly reasonable for the SBI implementation to claim one
> >> of the wakeup-capable MMIO timers for itself, mark it as "reserved" in
> >> the DT passed to Linux, and thus force Linux to use the SBI timer or a
> >> native CLINT driver (C906 CLINT has S-mode extensions). Then the SBI
> >> timer _would_ be capable of waking the CPU from non-retentive suspend.
> >
> > Fair enough but the DT property should not be SBI specific because same
> > situation can happen with Sstc as well where a particular non-retentive state
> > does not preserve the state of stimecmp CSRs in the HARTs.
> >
> > Better to keep the DT property name as "riscv,timer-can-wake-cpu".
>
> Consider a platform where the Sstc-based timer cannot wake the CPU, but
> the SBI timer can, because it uses different timer hardware or a
> different interrupt delivery method. It seems like we need two different
> properties, one for Sstc and the other for the SBI timer. If both are
> supported, firmware cannot know which one S-mode software will use.

On a platform with Sstc, the SBI set_timer() call will internally update
stimecmp CSR. In fact, this is what OpenSBI already does.

Here's the text from Sstc specification:
"In systems in which a supervisor execution environment (SEE) provides
timer facilities via an SBI function call, this SBI call will continue
to support
requests to schedule a timer interrupt. The SEE will simply make use of
stimecmp, changing its value as appropriate. This ensures compatibility
with existing S-mode software that uses this SEE facility, while new S-mode
software takes advantage of stimecmp directly.)"

Based on the above, we don't need separate DT property for SBI timer
and Sstc.

Regards,
Anup