[PATCH V2 08/10] ARM: OMAP4: Prevent EMU power domain transitioning to OFF when in-use

Jon Hunter jon-hunter at ti.com
Fri Jul 13 10:07:41 EDT 2012


Hi Will,

On 07/13/2012 09:00 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> [cutting out realms of context!]

Thanks! My inbox thanks you too ;-)

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:54:59PM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> Another proposal I also thought of is re-working the flags to describe
>> the HW mode to be used when turning on the CLKDM, when the CLKDM is
>> active and when the CLKDM is shut down. So instead of saying what modes
>> the CLKDM supports, specify what modes should be used for pre-ON (i.e.
>> turn ON), ON and OFF. Right now software is trying to decide for us by
>> what is available (which is ideal) but makes working around such nuances
>> a little more painful.
>>
>> By the way, I did do some testing on OMAP3, but I don't recall now
>> whether I was having such problems with OMAP3. I need to go back and
>> test perf again on OMAP3 to see if such a flag is needed.
> 
> If you do test on OMAP3, please kill the OMAP3_EMU option as I think this
> has the effect of keeping the EMU power domain up via the etm code (look at
> etb_probe).
> 
> Will
> 
> ---8<---
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index a91009c..d02054c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -1139,8 +1139,7 @@ config XSCALE_PMU
>         default y
>  
>  config CPU_HAS_PMU
> -       depends on (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7 || XSCALE_PMU) && \
> -                  (!ARCH_OMAP3 || OMAP3_EMU)
> +       depends on (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7 || XSCALE_PMU)
>         default y
>         bool

Ah-ha! May be this is why is worked without issue. I will look at that
and check the power states. I must admit that my testing was quick to
ensure no breakages but no thorough to check what was going on with power.

Cheers
Jon






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