[PATCH v1] pmdomain: ti_sci: re-sync TIFS with genpd on resume
Vitor Soares
ivitro at gmail.com
Sun May 3 23:26:44 PDT 2026
Hello Sebin
On Thu, 2026-04-30 at 16:17 +0530, Sebin Francis wrote:
> Hi Vitor,
>
> On 29/04/26 21:56, Vitor Soares wrote:
> > Hi Vignesh
> >
> > Thank you for the review.
> >
> > On Wed, 2026-04-29 at 10:03 +0530, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
> > > Hi Vitor
> > >
> > > On 27/04/26 13:18, Vitor Soares wrote:
> > > > From: Vitor Soares <vitor.soares at toradex.com>
> > > >
> > > > When a device in a TI SCI power domain is on the wakeup path of a
> > > > wakeup-capable child, the suspend path skips genpd_sync_power_off().
> > > > No put_device is sent to TIFS and the domain's genpd status remains
> > > > ON.
> > >
> > > Correction of terminologies: TIFS is Root of trust component and is not
> > > usually involved in power management, that would be DM (Device Manager)
> > >
> >
> > Thank you for the clarification. I will address this on v2. Also, I was
> > thinking
> > to replace put_device/get_device with ti_sci_pd_power_off/ti_sci_pd_power_on
> > if
> > that makes more clear the content.
> >
> > > But to be really sure who is doing what, Could you provide an example
> > > and the platform on which you see the issue / external abort?
> > >
> >
> > This was reproduced on our Toradex Verdin AM62P WB and the driver for our
> > Wi-Fi
> > module on the SDIO bus calls device_init_wakeup() during the initialization.
> >
> > After enter in suspend, it show the following error resume path:
> >
> >
> > [ 41.759341] Internal error: synchronous external abort: 0000000096000010
> > [#1]
> > SMP
> > [ 41.843286] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 933 Comm: rtcwake Tainted: G M O
> > 6.18.21-dirty #3 PREEMPT
> > [ 41.852762] Tainted: [M]=MACHINE_CHECK, [O]=OOT_MODULE
> > [ 41.857891] Hardware name: Toradex Verdin AM62P WB on Verdin Development
> > Board (DT)
> > [ 41.865537] pstate: 200000c5 (nzCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=-
> > -)
> > [ 41.872492] pc : regmap_mmio_read32le+0x8/0x20
> > [ 41.876941] lr : regmap_mmio_read+0x44/0x70
> > [ 41.881120] sp : ffff800081fdb8e0
> > [ 41.884428] x29: ffff800081fdb8e0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27:
> > ffffa95bb64aa9c8
> > [ 41.891563] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24:
> > 0000000000000000
> > [ 41.898697] x23: 0000000080000000 x22: ffff000002df5c00 x21:
> > ffff800081fdb9b4
> > [ 41.905831] x20: 0000000000000100 x19: ffff000001286400 x18:
> > 0000000000000000
> > [ 41.912965] x17: 2d69696d67722f79 x16: 687020726f662067 x15:
> > ffff00007fb74f40
> > [ 41.920100] x14: 00000000000002ea x13: 000000000000031f x12:
> > 0000000000000000
> > [ 41.927234] x11: 00000000000000c0 x10: 00000000000009e0 x9 :
> > ffff800081fdb7a0
> > [ 41.934368] x8 : ffff00007fb6ce00 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 :
> > 0000000000000000
> > [ 41.941502] x5 : ffffa95bb57948d8 x4 : 0000000000000100 x3 :
> > 0000000000000100
> > [ 41.948636] x2 : ffffa95bb5795034 x1 : 0000000000000100 x0 :
> > ffff80008025d100
> > [ 41.955770] Call trace:
> > [ 41.958211] regmap_mmio_read32le+0x8/0x20 (P)
> > [ 41.962655] _regmap_bus_reg_read+0x70/0xb0
> > [ 41.966839] _regmap_read+0x64/0xdc
> > [ 41.970327] _regmap_update_bits+0xf4/0x140
> > [ 41.974509] regmap_update_bits_base+0x64/0x98
> > [ 41.978952] sdhci_am654_runtime_resume+0x138/0x208
> > [ 41.983830] pm_generic_runtime_resume+0x2c/0x44
> > [ 41.988445] __genpd_runtime_resume+0x30/0x7c
> > [ 41.992804] genpd_runtime_resume+0xdc/0x2e8
> > [ 41.997073] pm_runtime_force_resume+0x68/0xf4
> > [ 42.001517] dpm_run_callback+0x8c/0x14c
> > [ 42.005439] device_resume+0x11c/0x34c
> > [ 42.009188] dpm_resume+0x178/0x1f0
> > [ 42.012673] dpm_resume_end+0x18/0x34
> > [ 42.016332] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x4a4/0x668
> > [ 42.021123] pm_suspend+0x170/0x2dc
> > [ 42.024610] state_store+0x80/0x104
> > [ 42.028096] kobj_attr_store+0x18/0x2c
> > [ 42.031845] sysfs_kf_write+0x7c/0x94
> > [ 42.035508] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x130/0x1fc
> > [ 42.039949] vfs_write+0x200/0x370
> > [ 42.043351] ksys_write+0x6c/0x100
> > [ 42.046752] __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28
> > [ 42.050673] invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x50/0xe4
> > [ 42.055378] do_el0_svc+0x40/0xc4
> > [ 42.058691] el0_svc+0x40/0x15c
> > [ 42.061834] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4
> > [ 42.066015] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
> > [ 42.069680] Code: aa0603e0 d65f03c0 f9400000 8b214000 (b9400000)
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > TIFS powers off the hardware during deep sleep regardless, since it
> > > > was never informed to keep the domain active. On resume, because the
> > > > domain's genpd status is ON, no get_device is issued. The driver
> > > > then accesses registers of a powered-off domain, causing a
> > > > synchronous external abort (AXI bus error, ESR 0x96000010).
> > >
> > > Hmm, if something is wakeup source, I would expect even TIFS/DM not to
> > > turn if off, else module wakeup wouldn't work.
> > >
> >
> > I tested UART as a wakeup source and I couldn't reproduce this issue. My
> > understanding is that UART has its own TI SCI domain and device_may_wakeup()
> > is
> > true directly on that domain device, so the set_device_constraint fires
> > correctly and DM keeps it powered.
> >
> > Here is my tracking of the issue:
> >
> > Wi-Fi driver registers as wakeup source:
> > device_init_wakeup(mmc0:0001)
> >
> > During suspend/resume.
> > dpm_suspend()
> > ->genpd_suspend_dev(fa20000.mmc)
> > ->ti_sci_pd_suspend(fa20000.mmc)
> > ->ti_sci_pd_set_wkup_constraint(fa20000.mmc)
> > device_may_wakeup(fa20000.mmc) = false
> > set_device_constraint never sent to DM
> >
> >
> > dpm_suspend_noirq()
> > ->genpd_finish_suspend(fa20000.mmc)
> > ->device_awake_path(fa20000.mmc) = true
> > ->GENPD_FLAG_ACTIVE_WAKEUP = true
> > genpd status = GENPD_STATE_ON
> > skip power_off (ti_sci_pd_power_off)
> >
> > On deep sleep entry, DM powers off fa20000.mmc independently.
> > It received no set_device_constraint nor ti_sci_pd_power_off.
>
> In AM62P fa20000.mmc is part of main domain. During deepsleep the entire
> main domain is turned off by the DM, that is why you see the failures.
>
> In-order to debug this we need to check why pd off and pd on call is not
> getting called for fa20000.mmc during suspend and resume.
This is an expected behavior from genpd. On suspend, ti_sci_pd_power_off is not
called because genpd_finish_suspend() takes an early return when both
device_awake_path() and GENPD_FLAG_ACTIVE_WAKEUP are true.
On resume, ti_sci_pd_power_on is not called because genpd sees the domain status
as GENPD_STATE_ON (it was never cleared) and skips the power-on entirely.
>
> >
> > I attempted to fix this by calling set_device_constraint when
> > device_wakeup_path() is true but it prevented the system from entering deep
> > sleep entirely.
>
> In AM62P the DM manager selects the low power mode to enter based on the
> constrains set. The mode selection logic will ensure that if a
> constraint is set on the device, it will select a low power mode in
> which the device is kept on or can wake the system up. the MMC is part
> of main domain and there is no low power mode in which the MMC can stay
> alive or generate a wake up interrupt. so when a constraint is set of
> MMC, we cannot enter any low power mode. that why you see a failure.
>
This is consistent with what we observed. I am open to suggestions if there is a
better way to handle this.
Thanks,
Vitor Soares
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