[PATCH v6 1/5] qcom: spm: Add Subsystem Power Manager driver

Lina Iyer lina.iyer at linaro.org
Wed Sep 24 10:21:51 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 24 2014 at 10:33 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>On Sep 23, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Lina Iyer <lina.iyer at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> Based on work by many authors, available at codeaurora.org
>>
>> SPM is a hardware block that controls the peripheral logic surrounding
>> the application cores (cpu/l$). When the core executes WFI instruction,
>> the SPM takes over the putting the core in low power state as
>> configured. The wake up for the SPM is an interrupt at the GIC, which
>> then completes the rest of low power mode sequence and brings the core
>> out of low power mode.
>>
>> The SPM has a set of control registers that configure the SPMs
>> individually based on the type of the core and the runtime conditions.
>> SPM is a finite state machine block to which a sequence is provided and
>> it interprets the bytes  and executes them in sequence. Each low power
>> mode that the core can enter into is provided to the SPM as a sequence.
>>
>> Configure the SPM to set the core (cpu or L2) into its low power mode,
>> the index of the first command in the sequence is set in the SPM_CTL
>> register. When the core executes ARM wfi instruction, it triggers the
>> SPM state machine to start executing from that index. The SPM state
>> machine waits until the interrupt occurs and starts executing the rest
>> of the sequence until it hits the end of the sequence. The end of the
>> sequence jumps the core out of its low power mode.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <lina.iyer at linaro.org>
>> [lina: simplify the driver for initial submission, clean up and update
>> commit text]
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/msm/spm.txt |  43 +++
>> drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig                          |   8 +
>> drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile                         |   1 +
>> drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c                            | 388 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/soc/qcom/spm.h                            |  38 +++
>> 5 files changed, 478 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/msm/spm.txt
>> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c
>> create mode 100644 include/soc/qcom/spm.h
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/msm/spm.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/msm/spm.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..2ff2454
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/msm/spm.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
>> +* Subsystem Power Manager (SPM)
>> +
>> +Qualcomm Snapdragons have SPM hardware blocks to control the Application
>> +Processor Sub-System power. These SPM blocks run individual state machine
>> +to determine what the core (L2 or Krait/Scorpion) would do when the WFI
>> +instruction is executed by the core.
>> +
>> +The devicetree representation of the SPM block should be:
>> +
>> +Required properties
>> +
>> +- compatible: Must be -
>> +		 "qcom,spm-v2.1"
>> +- reg: The physical address and the size of the SPM's memory mapped registers
>> +- qcom,cpu: phandle for the CPU that the SPM block is attached to.
>> +	This field is required on only for SPMs that control the CPU.
>
>Let’s make this just cpu-handle instead of qcom,cpu.  The concept of a handle to a cpu is pretty generic.
>
Okay. Will look into it.
You mean just the property name, right?

>> +- qcom,saw2-clk-div: SAW2 configuration register to program the SPM runtime
>> +	clocks. The register for this property is MSM_SPM_REG_SAW2_CFG.
>
>(add details on how this is used to compute timer tick.  Is it timer tick = saw_clk/saw2-clk-div?  What is valid range of values)
>
The SPM spec is not available for open use. The range of values is
irrelevant for the SPM clocks, usually, its a constant for an SoC, but
may vary between the SoC. Its how the SPM on the SoC interprets it. 

>> +- qcom,saw2-delays: The SPM delay values that SPM sequences would refer to.
>> +	The register for this property is MSM_SPM_REG_SAW2_SPM_DLY.
>
>Didn’t Stephen asked about splitting this up? Or at least treating it as an array of 3 values?
>
Yes he did. My response was similar to the clk-div values, its not
something you can change without hardware spec documentation.
And I need to mix the three values up, anyways before I write to the
register. Splitting it up, doesnt help understanding/configuring the SPM
any better, so didnt change it.

>> +- qcom,saw2-enable: The SPM control register to enable/disable the sleep state
>> +	machine. The register for this property is MSM_SPM_REG_SAW2_SPM_CTL.
>
>Can this just be a boolean (exist or not), if so, probably change it to qcom,saw2-disable (so lack of property means enable)?
>
Okay, sure.

>> +
>> +Optional properties
>> +
>> +- qcom,saw2-spm-cmd-wfi: The WFI command sequence
>
>probably add something like: “array of bytes …” (want to convey the data type somehow, is there a max length?)
>
Okay.

>> +- qcom,saw2-spm-cmd-spc: The Standalone PC command sequence
>
>probably add something like: “array of bytes …” (want to convey the data type somehow, is there a max length?)
>
Okay.

>> +
>> +Example:
>> +	spm at f9089000 {
>> +		compatible = "qcom,spm-v2.1";
>> +		#address-cells = <1>;
>> +		#size-cells = <1>;
>> +		reg = <0xf9089000 0x1000>;
>> +		qcom,cpu = <&CPU0>;
>> +		qcom,saw2-clk-div = <0x1>;
>> +		qcom,saw2-delays = <0x20000400>;
>> +		qcom,saw2-enable = <0x1>;
>> +		qcom,saw2-spm-cmd-wfi = [03 0b 0f];
>> +		qcom,saw2-spm-cmd-spc = [00 20 50 80 60 70 10 92
>> +				a0 b0 03 68 70 3b 92 a0 b0
>> +				82 2b 50 10 30 02 22 30 0f];
>> +	};
>
>- k
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