Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 4/5] clk: qcom: Use HW_CTRL_TRIGGER flag to switch video GDSC to HW mode

[Vikash Garodia]

On 11/10/2023 2:02 PM, Jagadeesh Kona wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/4/2023 1:45 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 11:04:10AM +0200, Abel Vesa wrote:
>>> From: Jagadeesh Kona <quic_jkona@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> The current HW_CTRL flag switches the video GDSC to HW control mode as
>>> part of GDSC enable itself, instead of that use HW_CTRL_TRIGGER flag to
>>> give consumer drivers more control and switch the GDSC mode as and when
>>> required.
>>>
>>> HW_CTRL_TRIGGER flag allows consumer drivers to switch the video GDSC to
>>> HW/SW control modes at runtime using dev_pm_genpd_set_hwmode API.
>>>
>>
>> This states what the code currently does, and what the new code will do.
>> But I don't find that it adequately describes _why_ this is done.
>>
>>
>> In the current implementation, the hardware is might collapse the GDSC
>> anytime between gdsc_enable() and gdsc_disable(). By giving "drivers
>> more control" the time spent in this state is reduced to some fraction
>> of that span, which to me implies higher power consumption.
>>
>> Under the assumption that we don't want to consume more power without
>> reason, I'm forced to guess that there might be some scenarios that we
>> want this feature to keep the GDSC non-collapsed against the indication
>> of the hardware - to avoid some instability somewhere, perhaps?
>>
> 
> Thanks Bjorn for your review. Sure, will update commit text with details in next
> series.
> 
> Normally, consumers will enable the GDSC and then the required clocks. If GDSC
> is moved to HW mode in gdsc_enable() itself, the subsequent clocks enablement
> that are dependent on GDSC might fail since GDSC could be turned off by HW. The
> consumers can still switch the GDSC to HW mode with new API right after the
> clocks are enabled and the control will be taken back to SW mode just before
> disabling the GDSC, so even with the newer implementation, HW can collapse the
> GDSC anytime for most of the duration between gdsc_enable() and gdsc_disable().
> This API adds more flexibility for consumer drivers to control the GDSC mode as
> per their
> requirements.
There is one more scenario where the driver would like GDSC in driver
controlled. Let say video hardware, which is under vcodec0_gdsc, have registers
to be programmed by TZ. In such scenario, the GDSC should be non collapsed,
while TZ programs those registers precisely while loading the firmware and
bringing hardware out of reset.

Regards,
Vikash