On 11/06/2012 03:38 AM, Bedia, Vaibhav wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:50:50, Hunter, Jon wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> Why is this? How is the dmtimer TIOCP_CFG register configured on AM33xx?
>> Is it using smart-idle?
>>
> 
> Yes, it is set to smart-idle with wakeup capable mode. (this needs a fixup
> since this timer is not wakeup capable) but unfortunately this is not
> sufficient. On AM33xx there's no HW_AUTO mode magic so unless the IPs in
> PER domain are disabled by s/w, PER domain can't transition.
> 
>>> The next one is that
>>> the clockevent doesn't generate any further interrupts once the
>>> system resumes. We need to restore the pre-suspend configuration.
>>> I haven't tried but I guess we could have used the save and restore
>>> of timer registers here.
>>
>> It would be interesting to try using an non-wakeup domain timer on
>> OMAP3/4 for clock events and seeing if suspend/resume works.
>>
>> Do you know what the exact problem here is? I understand that the timer
>> context could get lost, but exactly what is not getting restarted by the
>> kernel? For example, the only place we set the interrupt enable is
>> during the clock event init and so if the context is lost, then I could
>> see no more interrupts occurring. So is it enough to just restore the
>> interrupt enable register, do you really need to program the timer again?
>>
> 
> Just restoring the interrupt enable register works. But since there's no logic
> retention I think a context save-restore would be better.

Ok, we may need to check the order in which events occur following
resume. The kernel will restart the clock-events and we just need to
make sure we do not restore the context after the clock-events has been
restarted.

Cheers
Jon
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