Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] i2c: tegra: Fix suspending in active runtime PM state

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Fri Dec 13 2019 - 13:01:43 EST


13.12.2019 17:04, Dmitry Osipenko ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> 13.12.2019 16:47, Thierry Reding ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 02:34:28AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> I noticed that sometime I2C clock is kept enabled during suspend-resume.
>>> This happens because runtime PM defers dynamic suspension and thus it may
>>> happen that runtime PM is in active state when system enters into suspend.
>>> In particular I2C controller that is used for CPU's DVFS is often kept ON
>>> during suspend because CPU's voltage scaling happens quite often.
>>>
>>> Note: we marked runtime PM as IRQ-safe during the driver's probe in the
>>> "Support atomic transfers" patch, thus it's okay to enforce runtime PM
>>> suspend/resume in the NOIRQ phase which is used for the system-level
>>> suspend/resume of the driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 9 +++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> I've recently discussed this with Rafael in the context of runtime PM
>> support in the Tegra DRM driver and my understanding is that you're not
>> supposed to force runtime PM suspension like this.
>>
>> I had meant to send out an alternative patch to fix this, which I've
>> done now:
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1209148/
>>
>> That's more in line with what Rafael and I had discussed in the other
>> thread and should address the issue that you're seeing as well.
>
> Well, either me or you are still having some misunderstanding of the
> runtime PM :) To my knowledge there are a lot of drivers that enforce
> suspension of the runtime PM during system's suspend, it should be a
> right thing to do especially in a context of the Tegra I2C driver
> because we're using asynchronous pm_runtime_put() and thus at the time
> of system's suspending, the runtime PM could be ON (as I wrote in the
> commit message) and then Terga's I2C driver manually disables the clock
> on resume (woopsie).

Actually, looks like it's not the asynchronous pm_runtime_put() is the
cause of suspending in active state. I see that only one of three I2C
controllers is suspended in the enabled state, maybe some child (I2C
client) device keeps it awake, will try to find out.

> By invoking pm_runtime_force_suspend() on systems's suspend, the runtime
> PM executes tegra_i2c_runtime_suspend() if device is in active state. On
> system resume, pm_runtime_force_resume() either keeps device in a
> suspended state or resumes it, say if for userspace disabled the runtime
> PM for the I2C controller.
>
> Rafael, could you please clarify whether my patch is doing a wrong thing?
>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c
>>> index b3ecdd87e91f..d309a314f4d6 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c
>>> @@ -1790,9 +1790,14 @@ static int tegra_i2c_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>> static int __maybe_unused tegra_i2c_suspend(struct device *dev)
>>> {
>>> struct tegra_i2c_dev *i2c_dev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>>> + int err;
>>>
>>> i2c_mark_adapter_suspended(&i2c_dev->adapter);
>>>
>>> + err = pm_runtime_force_suspend(dev);
>>> + if (err < 0)
>>> + return err;
>>> +
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>>
>>> @@ -1813,6 +1818,10 @@ static int __maybe_unused tegra_i2c_resume(struct device *dev)
>>> if (err)
>>> return err;
>>>
>>> + err = pm_runtime_force_resume(dev);
>>> + if (err < 0)
>>> + return err;
>>> +
>>> i2c_mark_adapter_resumed(&i2c_dev->adapter);
>>>
>>> return 0;
>>> --
>>> 2.24.0
>>>
>