[PATCH 4/5] pmdomain: renesas: rcar-gen4-sysc: Don't keep unused PM domains powered-on

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Thu Sep 11 00:57:34 PDT 2025


On Tue, 9 Sept 2025 at 13:11, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> wrote:
> The recent changes to genpd makes a genpd OF provider that is powered-on at
> initialization to stay powered-on, until the ->sync_state() callback is
> invoked for it.
>
> This may not happen at all, if we wait for a consumer device to be probed,
> leading to wasting energy. There are ways to enforce the ->sync_state()
> callback to be invoked, through sysfs or via the probe-defer-timeout, but
> none of them in its current form are a good fit for rcar-gen4-sysc PM
> domains.
>
> Let's therefore opt-out from this behaviour of genpd for now, by using the
> GENPD_FLAG_NO_STAY_ON.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701114733.636510-1-ulf.hansson@linaro.org/
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
> Fixes: 0e789b491ba0 ("pmdomain: core: Leave powered-on genpds on until sync_state")
> Fixes: 13a4b7fb6260 ("pmdomain: core: Leave powered-on genpds on until late_initcall_sync")
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
on R-Car V4M (gray hawk single).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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