Re: [PATCH v4 24/24] platform/chrome: cros_ec: Use PM subsystem to manage wakeirq

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Mark Hasemeyer (2024-01-03 09:47:17)
> > The DMI quirk looks to be fixing something. Most likely that should be
> > backported to stable kernels as well? Please split the DMI match table
> > part out of this so that it isn't mixed together with migrating the
> > driver to use the pm wakeirq logic.
>
> The DMI quirk is used to list boards whose IRQ should be enabled for
> wake, regardless of what their firmware says. Currently the driver
> always enables the EC IRQ for wake anyway, so there shouldn't be a
> need to backport the DMI quirk on its own. Splitting out the DMI quirk
> into its own patch would break Brya/Brask's ability to wake if they
> were to run a kernel w/o the DMI patch. I chose not to split it out to
> keep the change atomic, and avoid introducing any regressions.

Ok, thanks for clarifying. I understand now that it is to workaround the
firmware on those boards where the driver didn't care before.

>
> > > For device tree base systems, it is not an issue as the relevant device
> > > tree entries have been updated and DTS is built from source for each
> > > ChromeOS update.
> >
> > It is still sorta an issue. It means that we can't backport this patch
> > without also backporting the DTS patch to the kernel. Furthermore, DTS
> > changes go through different maintainer trees, so having this patch in
> > the kernel without the DTS patch means the bisection hole is possibly
> > quite large.
>
> Correct, this patch doesn't make sense to backport on its own. It is
> dependent on the entire patch series (more than just the DTS changes).
> I'm not super familiar with how patches flow through different
> maintainer trees. But I'd imagine this patch series makes its way to
> torvalds/master in some sort of sane manner where earlier patches land
> before later (dependent) ones?

The DTS patch would go through the platform maintainer tree and be
pulled into the soc tree and sent up to mainline from there. The
platform/chrome patch would go through chrome platform tree and then to
mainline. The bisection hole will be real.

>
> > Does using the pm wakeirq logic require the use of 'wakeup-source'
> > property in DT? A quick glance makes me believe it isn't needed, so
> > please split that part out of this patch as well.
>
> No, 'wakeup-source' is not required, it provides an indication to the
> driver that the IRQ should be used for wake, which then enables the pm
> subsystem accordingly. If 'wakup-source' is not used, we're back to
> square one of making assumptions. Specifically in this case, it would
> be assumed that all SPI based EC's are wake capable.

Is that the wrong assumption to make? My understanding of the DT
property is that it is used to signal that this device should be treated
as a wakeup source, when otherwise it isn't treated as one. In this
case, the device has always been treated as a wakeup source so adding
the property is redundant. Making the patch series dependent on the
property being present makes the driver break without the DT change. We
try to make drivers work with older DT files, sometimes by adding
backwards compatibility code, so the presence of the wakeup-source
property should not be required to make this work.

>
> > We should see a patch
> > for the DMI quirk, a patch to use wakeup-source (doubtful that we need
> > it at all though), and a patch to use the pm wakeirq logic instead of
> > hand rolling it again.
>
> I don't know if I'm convinced this should happen. I'm open to it, but
> see my previous comments.
>
> > >                 ec_spi->end_of_msg_delay = val;
> > > +
> > > +       ec_spi->irq_wake = spi->irq > 0 && of_property_present(np, "wakeup-source");
> >
> > Is there any EC SPI device that doesn't want to support wakeup?
>
> I don't know for sure. If so, the EC driver doesn't currently support
> it because it assumes wake capability.
>
> > I'd
> > prefer we introduce a new property or compatible string to indicate that
> > wakeup isn't supported and otherwise always set irq_wake to true. That
> > way DT can change in parallel with the driver instead of in lockstep.
>
> We could introduce a custom binding? IMHO, using inverted logic like
> that kind of goes against the grain with how ACPI and kernel are
> currently structured. And I don't love how it would make the SPI EC
> driver inverted from the other interfaces. I'd rather go back to just
> assuming all SPI based EC's are wake capable. But even then, why
> assume? This gives us flexibility to disable wakeirqs and drops
> unnecessary assumptions. It also lays the groundwork for new boards
> that may behave differently. For example, an ACPI based SPI EC.

What is the goal of this patch series? Is it to allow disabling the
wakeup capability of the EC wake irq from userspace? I can see a
possible problem where we want to disable wakeup for the EC dynamically
because either it has no child devices that are wakeup sources (e.g. no
power button, no keyboard on ARM) or userspace has disabled all the
wakeup sources for those child devices at runtime. In that case, we
would want to keep the EC irq from waking up the system from suspend. Is
that what you're doing here?