Paul Walmsley <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>
>> Paul Walmsley <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > I guess the intent of your patch is to avoid having to patch in
>> > omap_device_{idle,enable}() into a bunch of driver DPM suspend/resume
>> > callbacks?
>>
>> Partially. Actually, I think many (most?) drivers can get rid of
>> static suspend/resume paths all together and just use runtime PM.
>>
>> There are some cases though (MMC comes to mind, more on that below)
>> where static suspend has some extra steps necessary and behaves
>> differently than runtime PM.
>
> It's not just MMC, any driver that can be in the middle of doing something
> during DPM ->suspend() will need to have DPM suspend code to stop what
> it's doing and quiesce the device before returning from the suspend
> callback.
I don't think we do a very good job of that today in most drivers, but
your point is valid.
Probably best to "trick" the runtime PM core by doing a runtime PM
put/get in the bus code as you suggest below to avoid this kind of
potential conflict.
> Either that, or ->suspend() needs to return an error and block
> the system suspend process...
>
[...]
>> > Right now the OMAP2+ codebase doesn't use any
>> > shared interrupts for on-chip devices, as far as I can see. It
>> > looks like you use ->suspend_noirq() to ensure your code runs after
>> > the existing driver suspend functions.
>>
>> No. The primary reason for using _noirq() is that if any driver ever
>> did use the _noirq() hooks (for any atomic activity, or late wakeup
>> detection, etc.) the device will still be accessible.
>>
>> > Using ->suspend_noirq() for this purpose seems like a hack.
>> > A better place for that code would be in a bus->pm->suspend()
>> > callback, which will run after the device's dev_pm_ops->suspend()
>> > callback.
>>
>> I originally put it in bus->pm->suspend, but moved it to
>> bus->pm->suspend_noirq() since I didn't do a full audit so see
>> if anything was using the _noirq hooks.
>>
>> If we want to have a requirement that no on-chip devices can use the
>> _noirq hooks (or at least they can't touch hardware in those hooks)
>> then I can move it back to bus->pm->suspend().
>
> That sounds like the best argument for keeping these hooks in
> _noirq() -- some driver writer may be likely to use suspend_noirq()
> without understanding that they shouldn't... maybe we should add some code
> that looks for this and warns.
>
> But thinking about it further, it also seems possible that a handful of
> OMAP drivers might use shared IRQs at some point in the future. DSS comes
> to mind -- that really is a shared IRQ. So, _noirq() is fine, then.
OK.
[...]
>> > - It is not safe to call omap_device_{idle,enable}() from DPM
>> > callbacks as the patch does, because they will race with runtime PM
>> > calls to omap_device_{idle,enable}().
>>
>> No, they cannot race.
>>
>> Runtime PM transitions are prevented by the system PM core during a
>> system PM transition. The system suspend path does a pm_runtime_get()
>> for each device being suspended, and then does a _put() upon resume.
>> (see drivers/base/power/main.c, grep for pm_runtime_)
>
> Yes, you are correct in terms of my original statement. But the problem
> -- and the race -- that I did a poor job of describing is still present.
>
> What if this pm_bus ->suspend_noirq() calls omap_device_idle() while other
> code in the driver is still in the middle of interacting with the device?
> Although that would certainly be a driver bug, I certainly wouldn't trust
> all of our existing driver DPM suspend* functions to adequately wait for
> in-progress operations to complete and block new operations from starting
> before returning.
Yes, I see the point now, and I agree that this is a problem.
> We shouldn't idle (and potentially power off) a device unless we know its
> driver is done with it. In an ideal world, this would always be taken
> care of by driver ->suspend()/->suspend_noirq() functions. But we know
> this isn't always the case -- perhaps it's not even the case for most of
> the OMAP drivers.
Yeah, I don't think we handle this very well currently in most drivers.
> We can use the device's runtime PM state to figure out whether the driver
> thinks it's done with the device. Unfortunately, the existing Linux DPM
> suspend code makes it difficult to deal with this by calling
> pm_runtime_get_noresume() before entering suspend and never calling
> pm_runtime_put() until after resume -- no idea why.
I gathered it was intended to minimize potential conflicts between
system PM and runtime PM, but not sure. I may ask on linux-pm.
> That strikes me as a bug. From a semantic perspective it is certainly
> confusing: the PM runtime implementation will think the device is
> still active after it's been suspended. I wouldn't want the full
> Linux system suspend code to enter some low power state while some
> driver still thought its device should stay powered.
Completely agree here, and this is the root cause of all this funny
business in the first place.
If I we could just put pm_runtime_put_sync() in the driver's suspend
routine (and _get_sync() in the resume routine) this patch would be
totally unncessary.
> Anyway, given this strange behavior, I think there is probably a simple
> workaround. Rather than calling omap_device_idle() in
> platform_pm_suspend_noirq(), how about calling pm_runtime_put_sync()? It
> probably needs a comment to indicate that it's intended to balance the
> pm_runtime_get_noresume() that's in dpm_prepare(). Similarly it should be
> possible to replace the omap_device_enable() in platform_pm_resume_noirq()
> with pm_runtime_get_sync(). That way the pm_bus code will not call
> omap_device_idle() on a device that the driver has not yet indicated is
> safe to enter idle.
Hehe. This was actually the original implementation.
I decided I didn't like having to put those comments to admit defeat
against the DPM core. ;) So, I decided to change it to directly use
omap_device*. But now, in light of the potential conflicts you raised,
I will go back to this implementation.
Thanks for the thorough feedback,
Kevin
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