On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 02:23:00PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 10:20:23PM +0200, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> > From: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
> > 
> > The DMC firmware is confused and forces on the BIOS and debug
> > power well requests for PW1 and MISC IO on some platforms. On
> > BXT I measured this to waste about 10mW in the freeze system
> > suspend state with the SoC in s0. I didn't get conclusive
> > numbers for s0ix on account of the power consumption being
> > much more noisy than in s0.
> > 
> > This is pretty much undoing part of commit 42d9366d41a9
> > ("drm/i915/gen9+: Don't remove secondary power well requests")
> > where we stopped sanitizing the DMCs bogus request bits.
> > 
> > Cc: Imre Deak <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
> 
> Thanks for the effort for clarifying this.
> 
> The justification in 42d9366d41a9 for not removing the PW#1 and MISC_IO driver
> request bits is not too solid, I admit. Bspec 4230 has this to say about them
> (for SKL, but same in practice for the rest):
> 
> """
> 4. Disable Power Well 1 (PG1) and Misc IO Power
> 
>     Clear PWR_WELL_CTL Power Well 1 Request to 0b. Do not clear Misc IO Power 
> Request.
>     Wait for 10us. Do not poll for the power well to disable. Other clients 
> may be keeping it enabled.
> """
> 
> With MISC_IO we would clearly do the opposite in this patch wrt. the spec.
> 
> With PW#1 it's unclear if the spec means only the driver's request bit or all
> of them, but "other clients may be keeping it enabled" suggests to me it means
> only the driver's request bit. OTOH removing only the driver's request bit
> alone doesn't make sense due to DMC forcing on the BIOS (and debug) request
> bits anyway.
> 
> I opened a BSpec update request to clarify this, I suggest waiting for an
> update there before going ahead with this change.
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c
> > index 4350a5270423..6e349181dd1c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c
<snip>
> > @@ -417,6 +430,24 @@ static void hsw_power_well_disable(struct 
> > drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
> >  
> >     val = I915_READ(regs->driver);
> >     I915_WRITE(regs->driver, val & ~HSW_PWR_WELL_CTL_REQ(pw_idx));
> > +   /*
> > +    * On SKL-CNL DMC firmware forces on the BIOS request.
> > +    * This wastes a bit of power so clear it.
> > +    */
> > +   if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) < 11 &&
> > +       (id == SKL_DISP_PW_1 || id == SKL_DISP_PW_MISC_IO)) {
> > +           val = I915_READ(regs->bios);
> > +           I915_WRITE(regs->bios, val & ~HSW_PWR_WELL_CTL_REQ(pw_idx));
> > +   }
> > +   /*
> > +    * On BXT DMC firmware forces on the debug request.
> > +    * This wastes a bit of power so clear it.
> > +    */
> > +   if (IS_BROXTON(dev_priv) &&
> > +       (id == SKL_DISP_PW_1 || id == SKL_DISP_PW_MISC_IO)) {
> 
> No MISC_IO on BXT, so is this just for symmetry with the above if-block?

Just copy-pasted it so got it in both. I can drop the misc-io here if
you prefer that.

> 
> > +           val = I915_READ(regs->debug);
> > +           I915_WRITE(regs->debug, val & ~HSW_PWR_WELL_CTL_REQ(pw_idx));
> > +   }
> >     hsw_wait_for_power_well_disable(dev_priv, power_well);
> >  }
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.18.1
> > 

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel
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