[GICv3 ITS]S2IDLE framework does not invoke syscore_ops in GICv3 ITS driver

[Marc Zyngier]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:09:37 +0000,
Youngmin Nam <youngmin.nam at samsung.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> On our SoC, we are using S2IDLE instead of S2R as a system suspend mode.
> However, when I try to enable ARM GICv3 ITS driver (drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c),
> I noticed that there is no proper way to invoke suspend/resume callback,
> because it only uses syscore_ops, which is not called in an s2idle scenario.

This is *by design*.

> Please refer to the codes below.
> 
> <drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c>
> 5028 static struct syscore_ops its_syscore_ops = {
> 5029         .suspend = its_save_disable,
> 5030         .resume = its_restore_enable,
> 5031 };
> ...
> 5803         register_syscore_ops(&its_syscore_ops);
> 
> <kernel/power/suspend.c>
> 444         if (state == PM_SUSPEND_TO_IDLE) {
> 445                 s2idle_loop();
> 446                 goto Platform_wake;
> 447         }
> 448
> 449         error = pm_sleep_disable_secondary_cpus();
> 450         if (error || suspend_test(TEST_CPUS)) {
> 451                 log_suspend_abort_reason("Disabling non-boot cpus failed");
> 452                 goto Enable_cpus;
> 453         }
> 454
> 455         arch_suspend_disable_irqs();
> 456         BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> 457
> 458         system_state = SYSTEM_SUSPEND;
> 459
> 460         error = syscore_suspend();
> 
> How should we handle this situation ?

By implementing anything related to GIC power-management in your EL3
firmware. Only your firmware knows whether you are going into a state
where the GIC (and the ITS) is going to lose its state (because power
is going to be removed) or if the sleep period is short enough that
you can come back from idle without loss of context.

Furthermore, there is a lot of things that non-secure cannot do when
it comes to GIC power management (most the controls are secure only),
so it is pretty clear that the kernel is the wrong place for this.

I'd suggest you look at what TF-A provides, because this is not
exactly a new problem (it has been solved several years ago).

	M.

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