[PATCHv3 8/9] ARM: OMAP2+: AM33XX: Basic suspend resume support

Kevin Hilman khilman at linaro.org
Tue Aug 27 17:45:19 EDT 2013


Dave Gerlach <d-gerlach at ti.com> writes:

> From: Vaibhav Bedia <vaibhav.bedia at ti.com>
>
> AM335x supports various low power modes as documented
> in section 8.1.4.3 of the AM335x TRM which is available
> @ http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/spruh73f
>
> DeepSleep0 mode offers the lowest power mode with limited
> wakeup sources without a system reboot and is mapped as
> the suspend state in the kernel. In this state, MPU and
> PER domains are turned off with the internal RAM held in
> retention to facilitate resume process. As part of the boot
> process, the assembly code is copied over to OCMCRAM using
> the OMAP SRAM code.
>
> AM335x has a Cortex-M3 (WKUP_M3) which assists the MPU
> in DeepSleep0 entry and exit. WKUP_M3 takes care of the
> clockdomain and powerdomain transitions based on the
> intended low power state. MPU needs to load the appropriate
> WKUP_M3 binary onto the WKUP_M3 memory space before it can
> leverage any of the PM features like DeepSleep.
>
> The IPC mechanism between MPU and WKUP_M3 uses a mailbox
> sub-module and 8 IPC registers in the Control module. MPU
> uses the assigned Mailbox for issuing an interrupt to
> WKUP_M3 which then goes and checks the IPC registers for
> the payload. WKUP_M3 has the ability to trigger on interrupt

s/trigger on interrupt/trigger an interrupt/  ??

> to MPU by executing the "sev" instruction.
>
> In the current implementation when the suspend process
> is initiated MPU interrupts the WKUP_M3 to let it know about
> the intent of entering DeepSleep0 and waits for an ACK. When
> the ACK is received MPU continues with its suspend process
> to suspend all the drivers and then jumps to assembly in
> OCMC RAM. The assembly code puts the PLLs in bypass, puts the
> external RAM in self-refresh mode and then finally execute the
> WFI instruction. Execution of the WFI instruction triggers another
> interrupt to the WKUP_M3 which then continues wiht the power down
> sequence wherein the clockdomain and powerdomain transition takes
> place. As part of the sleep sequence, WKUP_M3 unmasks the interrupt
> lines for the wakeup sources. WFI execution on WKUP_M3 causes the
> hardware to disable the main oscillator of the SoC.
>
> When a wakeup event occurs, WKUP_M3 starts the power-up
> sequence by switching on the power domains and finally
> enabling the clock to MPU. Since the MPU gets powered down
> as part of the sleep sequence in the resume path ROM code
> starts executing. The ROM code detects a wakeup from sleep
> and then jumps to the resume location in OCMC which was
> populated in one of the IPC registers as part of the suspend
> sequence.
>
> The low level code in OCMC relocks the PLLs, enables access
> to external RAM and then jumps to the cpu_resume code of
> the kernel to finish the resume process.

[...]

>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx.c  |  474 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx.h  |   77 +++++++
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/wkup_m3.c |  183 ++++++++++++++++


Looking closer at this code as I'm trying to fully get my head around
all the IPC, I have some more comments.

I think the split between pm33xx.c and the M3 driver is still confusing
here.  For example, am33xx_ping_wkup_m3(),
am33xx_m3_state_machine_reset() and the guts of am33xx_pm_begin() all
belong inside the M3 driver, along with all the wakeup_src stuff, which
is info coming from the M3.

IOW, the communication with M3 should be abstracted from pm33xx by the
M3 driver (or possibly an eventual remoteproc/rpmsg implementation) with
a well defined API.  In this implementation, the interface is pretty
fuzzy and mixed between pm33xx.c and wkup_m3.c.

Kevin

P.S. I'd also suggest renaming wakeup_src to something else since
it's close to wakeup_source which has a rather different meaning in the
kernel (c.f. linux/pm_wakeup.h)



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