[RFC PATCH 1/2] pm: Add PM domain notifications

[Ulf Hansson]

On 11 December 2014 at 14:54, Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki at samsung.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/14 12:04, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> ...
>>> > On 11/12/14 09:26, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>>>> > > From: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki at samsung.com>
>>>> > >
>>>> > > This patch adds notifiers to the runtime PM/genpd subsystem. It is now
>>>> > > possible to register a notifier, which will be called before and after
>>>> > > the generic power domain subsystem calls the power domain's power_on
>>>> > > and power_off callbacks.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki at samsung.com>
>>>> > > [tfiga at chromium.org: rebased]
>>>> > > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga at chromium.org>
>>> >
>>> > Not sure if you've noticed it, I posted an updated version of this patch
>>> > recently [1]. The notifiers list is moved to struct generic_pm_domain
>>> > there and it also allows to register a notifier for selected power domain
>>> > by name.
>> [snip]
>>> > [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg38549.html
>>
>> Ah, haven't noticed, sorry. The API using devices looks the same, so I
>> guess we can simply have patch 2/2 of this series applied on top of
>> your patch.
>
> Yes, that should work.
>
>> By the way, look-up by name (presumably hardcoded somewhere?) sounds a
>> bit strange to me. What was the reason for it to be added?
>
> Yes, that might not be a very elegant approach. We initially used it
> to implement power domain on/off sequence per specific domain and SoC,
> since it appeared resistant to generalize.  I.e. the control register
> write sequences are different per domain and per SoC (exynos).
> So we named the domains in the device tree in that way:
>
>         pm_domains: pm-domains at 10024000 {
>                 compatible = "samsung,exynos4415-pd";
>                 reg-names = "cam", "tv", "mfc", "g3d",
>                             "lcd0", "isp0", "isp1";
>                 reg = <0x10024000 0x20>, <0x10024020 0x20>,
>                       <0x10024040 0x20>, <0x10024060 0x20>,
>                       <0x10024080 0x20>, <0x100240A0 0x20>,
>                       <0x100240E0 0x20>;
>                 #power-domain-cells = <1>;
>         };
>
> and then, for example, in the exynos CMU_ISP{0, 1} (clock controller)
> driver registered for notification on "isp0" and "isp1" power domains
> ("isp1" is a sub-domain of "isp0" and the consumer devices are normally
> attached to "isp1").
>
> We have been investigating if we could do without the notification
> at the clocks driver side, then the all SoC/power domain specific code
> would end up in the exynos power domain driver. But I'm afraid it's
> not going to work for all SoCs. Anyway lookup by name might be not
> needed.

Regarding "lookup by name", let's please move away from those APIs. I
am planning to remove all name based API from the genpd API as soon as
I can.

If you need to fetch domains, this might help you:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg383743.html

Kind regards
Uffe