[PATCH v2 4/4] dmaengine: pl330: Don't require irq-safe runtime PM
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzk at kernel.org
Mon Jan 9 10:47:59 PST 2017
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 03:03:18PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> This patch replaces irq-safe runtime PM with non-irq-safe version based on
> the new approach. Existing, irq-safe runtime PM implementation for PL330 was
> not bringing much benefits of its own - only clocks were enabled/disabled.
>
> Till now non-irq-safe runtime PM implementation was only possible by calling
> pm_runtime_get/put functions from alloc/free_chan_resources. All other DMA
> engine API functions cannot be called from a context, which permits sleeping.
> Such implementation, in practice would result in keeping DMA controller's
> device active almost all the time, because most of the slave device drivers
> (DMA engine clients) acquire DMA channel in their probe() function and
> released it during driver removal.
>
> This patch provides a new, different approach. It is based on an observation
> that there can be only one slave device using each DMA channel. PL330 hardware
> always has dedicated channels for each peripheral device. Using recently
> introduced device dependencies (links) infrastructure one can ensure proper
> runtime PM state of PL330 DMA controller basing on the runtime PM state of
> the slave device.
>
> In this approach in pl330_alloc_chan_resources() function a new dependency
> is being created between PL330 DMA controller device (as a supplier) and
> given slave device (as a consumer). This way PL330 DMA controller device
> runtime active counter is increased when the slave device is resumed and
> decreased the same time when given slave device is put to suspend. This way
> it has been ensured to keep PL330 DMA controller runtime active if there is
> an active used of any of its DMA channels. Slave device pointer is initially
> stored in per-channel data in of_dma_xlate callback. This is similar to what
> has been already implemented in Exynos IOMMU driver in commit 2f5f44f205cc95
> ("iommu/exynos: Use device dependency links to control runtime pm").
>
> If slave device doesn't implement runtime PM or keeps device runtime active
> all the time, then PL330 DMA controller will be runtime active all the time
> when channel is being allocated. The goal is however to have runtime PM
> added to all devices in the system, because it lets respective power
> domains to be turned off, what gives the best results in terms of power
> saving.
>
> If one requests memory-to-memory channel, runtime active counter is
> increased unconditionally. This might be a drawback of this approach, but
> PL330 is not really used for memory-to-memory operations due to poor
> performance in such operations compared to the CPU.
>
> Introducing non-irq-safe runtime power management finally allows to turn off
> audio power domain on Exynos5 SoCs.
>
> Removal of irq-safe runtime PM is based on the revert of the following
> commits:
> 1. "dmaengine: pl330: fix runtime pm support" commit
> 5c9e6c2b2ba3ec3a442e2fb5b4286498f8b4dcb7
> 2. "dmaengine: pl330: Fix hang on dmaengine_terminate_all on certain boards"
> commit 81cc6edc08705ac0146fe6ac14a0982a31ce6f3d
> 3. "ARM: 8202/1: dmaengine: pl330: Add runtime Power Management support v12"
> commit ae43b3289186480f81c78bb63d788a85a3631f47
Checkpatch will complain here. I think following standard pattern of
'commit XYZ ("abc")' makes sense.
Beside that, one not important remark below.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> ---
> drivers/dma/pl330.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/pl330.c b/drivers/dma/pl330.c
> index 9c72f535739c..2cffbb44b09e 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/pl330.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/pl330.c
> @@ -268,9 +268,6 @@ enum pl330_byteswap {
>
> #define NR_DEFAULT_DESC 16
>
> -/* Delay for runtime PM autosuspend, ms */
> -#define PL330_AUTOSUSPEND_DELAY 20
> -
> /* Populated by the PL330 core driver for DMA API driver's info */
> struct pl330_config {
> u32 periph_id;
> @@ -449,8 +446,8 @@ struct dma_pl330_chan {
> bool cyclic;
>
> /* for runtime pm tracking */
> - bool active;
> struct device *slave;
> + struct device_link *slave_link;
> };
>
> struct pl330_dmac {
> @@ -2016,7 +2013,6 @@ static void pl330_tasklet(unsigned long data)
> struct dma_pl330_chan *pch = (struct dma_pl330_chan *)data;
> struct dma_pl330_desc *desc, *_dt;
> unsigned long flags;
> - bool power_down = false;
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&pch->lock, flags);
>
> @@ -2031,18 +2027,10 @@ static void pl330_tasklet(unsigned long data)
> /* Try to submit a req imm. next to the last completed cookie */
> fill_queue(pch);
>
> - if (list_empty(&pch->work_list)) {
> - spin_lock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock);
> - _stop(pch->thread);
> - spin_unlock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock);
> - power_down = true;
> - pch->active = false;
> - } else {
> - /* Make sure the PL330 Channel thread is active */
> - spin_lock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock);
> - _start(pch->thread);
> - spin_unlock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock);
> - }
> + /* Make sure the PL330 Channel thread is active */
> + spin_lock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock);
> + _start(pch->thread);
> + spin_unlock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock);
>
> while (!list_empty(&pch->completed_list)) {
> struct dmaengine_desc_callback cb;
> @@ -2055,13 +2043,6 @@ static void pl330_tasklet(unsigned long data)
> if (pch->cyclic) {
> desc->status = PREP;
> list_move_tail(&desc->node, &pch->work_list);
> - if (power_down) {
> - pch->active = true;
> - spin_lock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock);
> - _start(pch->thread);
> - spin_unlock(&pch->thread->dmac->lock);
> - power_down = false;
> - }
> } else {
> desc->status = FREE;
> list_move_tail(&desc->node, &pch->dmac->desc_pool);
> @@ -2076,12 +2057,6 @@ static void pl330_tasklet(unsigned long data)
> }
> }
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pch->lock, flags);
> -
> - /* If work list empty, power down */
> - if (power_down) {
> - pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(pch->dmac->ddma.dev);
> - pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(pch->dmac->ddma.dev);
> - }
> }
>
> bool pl330_filter(struct dma_chan *chan, void *param)
> @@ -2125,11 +2100,52 @@ static struct dma_chan *of_dma_pl330_xlate(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,
> return dma_get_slave_channel(&pl330->peripherals[chan_id].chan);
> }
>
> +static int pl330_add_slave_link(struct pl330_dmac *pl330,
> + struct dma_pl330_chan *pch)
> +{
> + struct device_link *link;
> + int i;
> +
> + if (pch->slave_link)
> + return 0;
> +
> + link = device_link_add(pch->slave, pl330->ddma.dev,
> + DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME | DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE);
Align the arguments with open parenthesis?
Anyway, nice job!
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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