Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: qcom-geni: fix opp vote on shutdown

Johan Hovold
2023-07-14T15:08:09Z

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 04:29:08PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 14.07.2023 15:02, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > The operating-performance-point vote needs to be dropped when shutting
> > down the port to avoid wasting power by keeping resources like power
> > domains in an unnecessarily high performance state (e.g. when a UART
> > connected Bluetooth controller is not in use).
> >
> > Fixes: a5819b548af0 ("tty: serial: qcom_geni_serial: Use OPP API to set clk/perf state")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9
> > Cc: Rajendra Nayak <quic_rjendra@quicinc.com>
> > Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
> > ---
> I don't know a whole lot about this subsystem, but the PM call has
> a pointer to uport which already contains this clock rate.. Is it
> zeroed out by the core before we reach it, which would prevent us
> from reusing it?

No, but this driver has other issues and I couldn't be arsed fixing them
before addressing this bug.

Specifically that uartclk variable can currently be set by userspace...

I'll fix that up next week.

Johan