Re: [PATCH v8 01/34] opp: Add dev_pm_opp_sync() helper

Dmitry Osipenko
2021-08-18T06:23:05Z

18.08.2021 08:58, Viresh Kumar пишет:
> On 18-08-21, 08:21, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> Yes, GENPD will cache the perf state across suspend/resume and initially
>> cached value is out of sync with h/w.
>>
>> Nothing else. But let me clarify it all again.
>
> Thanks for your explanation.
>
>> Initially the performance state of all GENPDs is 0 for all devices.
>>
>> The clock rate is preinitialized for all devices to a some default rate
>> by clk driver, or by bootloader or by assigned-clocks in DT.
>>
>> When device is rpm-resumed, the resume callback of a device driver
>> enables the clock.
>>
>> Before clock is enabled, the voltage needs to be configured in
>> accordance to the clk rate.
>>
>> So now we have a GENPD with pstate=0 on a first rpm-resume, which
>> doesn't match the h/w configuration. Calling dev_pm_opp_sync() sets the
>> pstate in accordance to the h/w config.
>
> What about calling dev_pm_opp_set_rate(dev, clk_get_rate(dev)) here
> instead ? That will work, right ? The advantage is it works without
> any special routine to do so.

It will work, but a dedicated helper is nicer.

> I also wonder looking at your gr3d.c changes, you set a set-opp
> helper, but the driver doesn't call set_opp_rate at all. Who calls it
> ?

dev_pm_opp_sync() calls it from _set_opp().

> And if it is all about just syncing the genpd core, then can the genpd
> core do something like what clk framework does? i.e. allow a new
> optional genpd callback, get_performance_state() (just like
> set_performance_state()), which can be called initially by the core to
> get the performance to something other than zero. opp-set-rate is
> there to set the performance state and enable the stuff as well.
> That's why it looks incorrect in your case, where the function was
> only required to be called once, and you are ending up calling it on
> each resume. Limiting that with another local variable is bad as well.

We discussed variant with get_performance_state() previously and Ulf
didn't like it either since it still requires to touch 'internals' of GENPD.