Re: [PATCH V2 0/8] PM / OPP: Multiple regulator support

Dave Gerlach
2016-10-25T21:13:54Z

Hi,
On 10/23/2016 11:26 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 23-10-16, 20:08, Dave Gerlach wrote:
>> Overall this series looks good to me apart from a few small things. Most
>> importantly I was able to get a working implementation using two regulators
>> on ti dra7xx platform with proper sequencing built on top of this series. We
>> have cpu regulator and Adaptive body bias (abb) regulator that must be
>> scaled in a certain order before or after clock scaling and I was able to
>> implement a rough custom set_rate to perform this and ran some dvfs stress
>> tests that all worked fine.
>
> Thanks for testing it buddy.
>
>> First comment, I think the platform specific set_rate is a good place to
>> hook in for adaptive voltage scaling as well. I was able to implement TI
>> Class0 AVS in the same code by using the requested transition voltage as a
>> reference and programming AVS voltage using that, along with scaling the
>> additional regulators in sequence (the original multi regulator
>> functionality).
>
> Hmm, interesting..
>
>> I would think some people would want to use this even with
>> single regulator platforms, no?
>
> Maybe, but I would like to see such user code first. It may be possible to
> handle much of AVS stuff in core so that everyone isn't required to do it.

Ok, I think it would be a logical next step to look at once this series
gets accepted. For now, the particular implementation I did just looks
up an optimized value for the requested voltage from a register and
programs the optimal value instead of the requested voltage.

>
>> This raises some concerns about dependencies/probe sequencing. Right now we
>> just need to make sure the cpufreq-dt driver probes after we have called
>> _set_regulators, but if our platform code fails cpufreq-dt currently will
>> treat this as no regulator needed for the platform and operate without one,
>> which will likely hang the system. Is there a good way to to guarantee this
>> doesn't happen? My main concern is that if we plan to provide a platform
>> specific set-rate function, we should have a way to indicate this and
>> prevent things from progressing if it isn't yet ready.
>>
>> Again, overall I think it solves the multi regulator problem, and it works
>> well for AVS as well. For the series:
>>
>> Tested-by: Dave Gerlach <d-gerlach@ti.com>
>
> Thanks.
>
> For the concern you shared about, does the below patch fix it ? I will include
> that in V3 then.

I think what you have shared below is a good safety check but if I
rename the regulator properties in the DT for the cpu (to vdd and vbb,
meaning cpufreq detects no regulator) and do *not* call
dev_pm_opp_set_regulators before cpufreq-dt probes we fail before we
even get to that point:

[16.946] cpu cpu0: opp_parse_supplies: Invalid number of elements in
opp-microvolt property (6) with supplies (1)
[16.967] cpu cpu0: _of_add_opp_table_v2: Failed to add OPP, -22
[16.982] cpu cpu0: dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count: OPP table not found (-19)
[16.982] cpu cpu0: OPP table is not ready, deferring probe

This failure is because opp_parse_supplies assumes a count of 1
regulator if no regulators at all are present and then hard fails if too
many voltages have been passed for each OPP. It seems we need a check
much earlier similar to what you suggested below to allow us to defer if
an OPP has supplied voltages but no regulator has been registered with
the system. I think this is reasonable even for the 1 regulator case,
no? If we have passed voltages then we presumably are hoping to use them
with a regulator, and if no regulators are present, OPP framework should
defer.

cpufreq-dt won't handle this properly as is, but now that the opp core
is evolving perhaps it makes sense to modify the resources_available
check slightly to rely on the OPP core rather than just a dummy
regulator_get_optional to see if the regulator is ready.

Regards,
Dave

>
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>
> From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:45:30 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Don't assume platform doesn't have regulators
>
> If the regulators aren't set explicitly by the platform, the OPP core
> assumes that the platform doesn't have any regulator and uses the
> clk-only callback.
>
> If the platform failed to register a regulator with the core, then this
> can turn out to be a dangerous assumption as the OPP core will try to
> change clk without changing regulators.
>
> Handle that properly by making sure that the DT didn't had any entries
> for supply voltages as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/base/power/opp/core.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/opp/core.c b/drivers/base/power/opp/core.c
> index b69908b74ed6..fb4250532180 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/opp/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/opp/core.c
> @@ -737,7 +737,17 @@ int dev_pm_opp_set_rate(struct device *dev, unsigned long target_freq)
>
> /* Only frequency scaling */
> if (!regulators) {
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> + /*
> + * DT contained supply ratings? Consider platform failed to set
> + * regulators.
> + */
> + if (unlikely(opp->supplies[0].u_volt)) {
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + dev_err(dev, "%s: Regulator not registered with OPP core\n",
> + __func__);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> return _generic_opp_set_rate_clk_only(dev, clk, old_freq, freq);
> }
>
>