[PATCH v5 4/4] dmaengine: pl330: Don't require irq-safe runtime PM

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 01:48:58PM +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. commit 5c9e6c2b2ba3 "dmaengine: pl330: fix runtime pm support"
> 2. commit 81cc6edc0870 "dmaengine: pl330: Fix hang on dmaengine_terminate_all
>    on certain boards"
> 3. commit ae43b3289186 "ARM: 8202/1: dmaengine: pl330: Add runtime Power
>    Management support v12"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/pl330.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof