Ville explained that the wakelock was being acquired during set-idle in
order to flush the voltage change from the punit.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
index 4406359c5f81..4c9a1b12dfee 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
@@ -5011,8 +5011,18 @@ static void vlv_set_rps_idle(struct drm_i915_private 
*dev_priv)
        if (dev_priv->rps.cur_freq <= val)
                return;
 
-       /* Wake up the media well, as that takes a lot less
-        * power than the Render well. */
+       /* The punit delays the write of the frequency and voltage until it
+        * determines the GPU is awake. During normal usage we don't want to
+        * waste power changing the frequency if the GPU is sleeping (rc6).
+        * However, the GPU and driver is now idle and we do not want to delay
+        * switching to minimum voltage (reducing power whilst idle) as we do
+        * not expect to be woken in the near future and so must flush the
+        * change by waking the device.
+        *
+        * We choose to take the media powerwell (either would do to trick the
+        * punit into commiting the voltage change) as that takes a lot less
+        * power than the render powerwell.
+        */
        intel_uncore_forcewake_get(dev_priv, FORCEWAKE_MEDIA);
        valleyview_set_rps(dev_priv, val);
        intel_uncore_forcewake_put(dev_priv, FORCEWAKE_MEDIA);
-- 
2.11.0

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