[PATCH v2] arm64: dts: Hi3660: Fix up psci state id

Vincent Guittot vincent.guittot at linaro.org
Wed Dec 27 00:29:16 PST 2017


Hi Leo

On 25 December 2017 at 03:22, Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> [ + John, Kevin Wang ]
>
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 03:22:51PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> Hi Leo,
>>
>> Sorry for jumping late in the discussion but should  we also remove
>> the NAP state from the property cpu-idle-states of the CPUs because
>> this state not supported by the platform at least for now and may be
>> not in a near future ?
>
> Thanks for bringing up this.
>
> I don't want to hide anything for patch discussion :) this patch is to
> resolve the PSCI parameter mismatching issue between kernel and ARM-TF
> and it's not used to resolve the bug for CPU_NAP, so I didn't mention
> the CPU_NAP malfunction issue to avoid complex discussion context.
>
> I want to keep CPU_NAP state and track bug for CPU_NAP fixing; if we
> remove this state, I suspect we might have no chance to enable it
> anymore. Finally this is up to Hisilicon colleague decision and if they
> have time to fix this.
>
> I will offline to check with Daniel and Kevin for this; and if we
> finally decide to remove it we can commit extra patch for this later,
> how about you think?

I would prefer to remove it right now.
Removing NAP from c-state table makes the hikey960 working correctly;
I mean even with current ATF and current state id. So it's the best
solution to the NAP problem IMO and I don't see the benefit of keeping
NAP in the table until this state has been fixed. This will just add
uncertainties in the behavior of the board.
I don't see why you can't re-add it once it has been fixed.

>
>> Then, I have another question regarding the update of the
>> psci-suspend-parameter. These changes implies an update of the psci
>> firmawre which means that we will now have 2 different firmware
>> version compatible with 2 different dt.
>>
>> Is there any way to check that the ATF on the board is the one that
>> compatible with the parameter with something like a version ? I
>> currently use the previous firmware which works fine with current
>> kernel and dt binding once the NAP state is removed from the table.
>> When moving on recent kernel, I will have to take care of updating the
>> firmware and if i need to go back on a previous kernel, i will have to
>> make sure that i have the right ATF version. This make a lot of chance
>> of having the wrong configuration
>
> AFAIK, we cannot distinguish the PSCI parameter by PSCI version or

And that's my main concern because this adds a new possible regression
factor when switching between different kernel version

> ARM-TF version number; alternatively one simple way for checking ARM-TF
> is we can get commit ID (e.g. 83df7ce) from the ARM-TF log; so any
> ARM-TF commit ID is newer than the patch fdae60b6ba27: "Hikey960:
> Change to use recommended power state id format" should apply this
> kernel patch.
>
> NOTICE:  BL1: Booting BL31
> NOTICE:  BL31: v1.4(debug):v1.4-441-g83df7ce-dirty
> NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 17:31:35, Dec 22 2017
>
> BTW, I hope we can upgrade Linux kernel and ARM-TF to latest code base
> to avoid compatible issue; for Android offical releasing it uses the
> old PSCI parameters with Hisilicon legacy booting images, so they can
> work well, but if someone uses ARM-TF mainline code + Android kernel
> 4.4/4.9, there must have compatible issue.
>
> I am monitoring the integration ARM-TF/UEFI into Android on Hikey960,
> we need backport this patch onto Android kernel 4.4/4.9 ASAP after
> integration ARM-TF/UEFI.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo Yan
>
>> Regards,
>> Vincent
>>
>> On 12 December 2017 at 10:12, Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org> wrote:
>> > Thanks a lot for Vincent Guittot careful work to find bug for 'CPU_NAP'
>> > idle state.  From ftrace log we can observe CA73 CPUs can be easily
>> > waken up from 'CPU_NAP' state but the 'waken up' CPUs doesn't handle
>> > anything and sleep again; so there have tons of trace events for CA73
>> > CPUs entering and exiting idle state.
>> >
>> > On Hi3660 CA73 has retention state 'CPU_NAP' for CPU idle, this state we
>> > set its psci parameter as '0x0000001' and from this parameter it can
>> > calculate state id is 1.  Unfortunately ARM trusted firmware (ARM-TF)
>> > takes 1 as a invalid value for state id, so the CPU cannot enter idle
>> > state and directly bail out to kernel.
>> >
>> > We want to create good practice for psci parameters platform definition,
>> > so review the psci specification. The spec "ARM Power State Coordination
>> > Interface - Platform Design Document (ARM DEN 0022D)" recommends state
>> > ID in chapter "6.5 Recommended StateID Encoding".  The recommended power
>> > state IDs can be presented by below listed values; and it divides into
>> > three fields, every field can use 4 bits to present power states
>> > corresponding to core level, cluster level and system level:
>> >   0: Run
>> >   1: Standby
>> >   2: Retention
>> >   3: Powerdown
>> >
>> > This commit changes psci parameter to compliance with the suggested
>> > state ID in the doc.  Except we change 'CPU_NAP' state psci parameter
>> > to '0x0000002', this commit also changes 'CPU_SLEEP' and 'CLUSTER_SLEEP'
>> > state parameters to '0x0010003' and '0x1010033' respectively.
>> >
>> > Credits to Daniel, Sudeep and Soby for suggestion and consolidation.
>> >
>> > Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot at linaro.org>
>> > Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
>> > Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
>> > Cc: Soby Mathew <Soby.Mathew at arm.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
>> > ---
>> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3660.dtsi | 8 ++++----
>> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3660.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3660.dtsi
>> > index ab0b95b..99d5a46 100644
>> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3660.dtsi
>> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3660.dtsi
>> > @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
>> >
>> >                         CPU_NAP: cpu-nap {
>> >                                 compatible = "arm,idle-state";
>> > -                               arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x0000001>;
>> > +                               arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x0000002>;
>> >                                 entry-latency-us = <7>;
>> >                                 exit-latency-us = <2>;
>> >                                 min-residency-us = <15>;
>> > @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
>> >                         CPU_SLEEP: cpu-sleep {
>> >                                 compatible = "arm,idle-state";
>> >                                 local-timer-stop;
>> > -                               arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x0010000>;
>> > +                               arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x0010003>;
>> >                                 entry-latency-us = <40>;
>> >                                 exit-latency-us = <70>;
>> >                                 min-residency-us = <3000>;
>> > @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
>> >                         CLUSTER_SLEEP_0: cluster-sleep-0 {
>> >                                 compatible = "arm,idle-state";
>> >                                 local-timer-stop;
>> > -                               arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x1010000>;
>> > +                               arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x1010033>;
>> >                                 entry-latency-us = <500>;
>> >                                 exit-latency-us = <5000>;
>> >                                 min-residency-us = <20000>;
>> > @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
>> >                         CLUSTER_SLEEP_1: cluster-sleep-1 {
>> >                                 compatible = "arm,idle-state";
>> >                                 local-timer-stop;
>> > -                               arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x1010000>;
>> > +                               arm,psci-suspend-param = <0x1010033>;
>> >                                 entry-latency-us = <1000>;
>> >                                 exit-latency-us = <5000>;
>> >                                 min-residency-us = <20000>;
>> > --
>> > 2.7.4
>> >



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