[PATCH v3 0/5] Firmware-assisted suspend/resume of Exynos SoCs
Kukjin Kim
kgene at kernel.org
Sun Sep 14 17:21:55 PDT 2014
Tomasz Figa wrote:
>
> Hi Kukjin,
>
Hi,
> On 26.08.2014 16:10, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > On Exynos-based boards running secure firmware the sequence of low level
> > operations to enter and leave system-wide sleep mode is different than
> > on those without the firmware. Namely:
> > - CP15 power control and diagnostic registers cannot be written directly,
> > - the way of setting boot address and boot flag is different,
> > - different resume handler needs to be used,
> > - dedicated SMC call needs to be performed instead of letting the CPU enter
> > WFI.
> >
> > This series introduces .suspend() and .resume() firmware operations to
> > perform low level firmware-specific suspend and resume and then leverages
> > them to provide suspend-resume path meeting the above requirements. Three
> > additional patches extend device tree sources of Trats2 board with necessary
> > setup to enable suspend/resume support.
> >
> > This series has been tested on Exynos4412-based Trats2 board, without any
> > additional patches. Unfortunately v3.17-rc1 regressed ODROID support and
> > suspend stopped working on those boards, due to unknown reasons still being
> > investigated. It does not seem to be related to anything in this series,
> > though, so I would not consider this as a stopper.
> >
> > Changes since v2:
> > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/17/431)
> > - added board-specific fixes for device tree sources of Trats2 board,
> > - rebased on next-20140826 of linux-next tree.
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > - dropped outer_resume() - will be handled in assembly in further patches,
> > as support for L2C in non-secure mode gets added,
> > - moved CP15 resume to assembly as it needs to be done before MMU is enabled,
> > - surrounded CP15 save with a check for cpuid part, because it is valid only
> > on Cortex A9,
> > - rebased on next-20140717 tag of linux-next tree.
> >
> > Tomasz Figa (5):
> > ARM: firmware: Introduce suspend and resume operations
> > ARM: EXYNOS: Add support for firmware-assisted suspend/resume
> > ARM: dts: exynos4412-trats2: Keep eMMC regulators soft-disabled
> > ARM: dts: exynos4x12: Add utility macro to define pin sleep states
> > ARM: dts: exynos4412-trats2: Add sleep mode pin configuration
> >
> > Documentation/arm/firmware.txt | 28 +--
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4412-trats2.dts | 320 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4x12-pinctrl.dtsi | 16 ++
> > arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h | 8 +
> > arch/arm/mach-exynos/Makefile | 1 +
> > arch/arm/mach-exynos/common.h | 4 +
> > arch/arm/mach-exynos/firmware.c | 45 +++++
> > arch/arm/mach-exynos/pm.c | 16 +-
> > arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S | 28 +++
> > arch/arm/mach-exynos/smc.h | 4 +
> > 10 files changed, 438 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> >
>
> Would you consider applying this series? It has been waiting on the ML
> long enough (note no changes in core patches since last revision, just
> few more board specific patches). Thanks in advance.
>
Sure, I will. Thanks for your gentle reminder.
- Kukjin
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