[PATCH/RFC] ARM: shmobile: sh7372: Keep D4 pm domain powered

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Oct 28 17:14:08 PDT 2014


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:15:56AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:23:14AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> >> The D4 power domain contains the Coresight-ETM hardware block.
> >> >> As long as the ARM debug/perf code doesn't use resource management with
> >> >> runtime PM support, the D4 power domain must be kept powered to avoid a
> >> >> crash during resume from s2ram (dbg_cpu_pm_notify() calls
> >> >> reset_ctrl_regs() unconditionally, causing an undefined instruction
> >> >> oops).
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> >> >> ---
> >> >> Untested on real hardware, but a similar workaround is needed on r8a7740.
> >> >
> >> > I have hardware in the form of a Mackerel board and I'm happy
> >> > to test this if it would help and you give me some guidance on how to do so.
> >>
> >> That would be great!
> >>
> >> Test procedure:
> >>   1. echo 0 > /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend
> >
> > I seemed to also need:
> >
> > echo enabled > /sys/devices/platform/sh-sci.0/tty/ttySC0/power/wakeup
> 
> Interesting. On Koelsch and Armadillo receiving a serial interrupt
> is sufficient to wake up:
> 
> root at armadillo:~# cat /sys/devices/e6c50000.serial/tty/ttySC1/power/wakeup
> disabled
> root at armadillo:~#
> 
> Probably the more advanced wake up sources code on sh7372 honours that.
> 
> >>   2. echo mem > /sys/power/state
> >>   3. [ Wake up by pressing a key on the serial console.
> >>         There's no other wake-up source on mackerel? ]
> >
> > usbhs seems like a candidate, it has a wakeup node in sysfs.
> >
> >> Without my patch, I expect it to crash during resume in reset_ctrl_regs().
> >
> > With the patch and the mackerel defconfig I see this:
> >
> > # echo mem > /sys/power/state
> > PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
> > Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.005 seconds) done.
> > Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.009 seconds) done.
> > Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
> > dpm_run_callback(): pm_genpd_suspend+0x0/0x44 returns -16
> > PM: Device sh_mobile_sdhi.2 failed to suspend: error -16
> > PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected
> > PM: resume of devices complete after 0.323 msecs
> > Restarting tasks ... done.
> > -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
> > #
> >
> > So I turned of SDHI support in the kernel config and tried again:
> 
> That's the SDHI QoS value, which is lower than the PM domain
> suspend/resume time. An alternative should be:
> 
> echo 501 > /sys/devices/platform/sh_mobile_sdhi.2/power/pm_qos_resume_latency_us

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

> > # echo mem > /sys/power/state
> > PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
> > Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.008 seconds) done.
> > Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.009 seconds) done.
> > renesas_usbhs renesas_usbhs.1: remove, state 4
> > usb usb1: USB disconnect, device number 1
> > renesas_usbhs renesas_usbhs.1: USB bus 1 deregistered
> > PM: suspend of devices complete after 28.959 msecs
> > PM: late suspend of devices complete after 0.357 msecs
> > PM: noirq suspend of devices complete after 0.512 msecs
> >
> > [keypress]
> >
> > sh_tmu sh-tmu.0: ch0: used for periodic clock events
> > PM: noirq resume of devices complete after 0.420 msecs
> > PM: early resume of devices complete after 0.209 msecs
> > PM: resume of devices complete after 0.327 msecs
> > Restarting tasks ...
> >
> > renesas_usbhs renesas_usbhs.1: USB Host Controller
> > renesas_usbhs renesas_usbhs.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> > done.
> > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
> > hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
> > asoc-simple-card asoc-simple-card.0: ASoC: CODEC DAI ak4642-hifi not registered
> > platform asoc-simple-card.0: Driver asoc-simple-card requests probe deferral
> >
> >
> > Without the patch I see the same as above, module slightly different msec
> > values:
> 
> OK, so my patch is not needed (yet[*]), please drop it.
> Either the Cortex A8 has a different debug module than A9, or what the kernel
> uses right now is not in the same D4 PM domain as the Coresight-ETM.

Done.

> Thanks for testing!
> 
> [*] This may change when the full Coresight-ETM patches by Mathieu Poirier
>     are in.
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert at linux-m68k.org
> 
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