2011-05-24 00:12:49

by Mark Brown

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Subject: [PATCH] regulator: Do bulk enables of regulators in parallel

In order to reduce the impact of ramp times rather than enabling the
regulators for a device in series use async tasks to run the actual
enables. This means that the delays which the enables implement can all
run in parallel, though it does mean that the order in which the
supplies come on may be unstable.

For super bonus fun points if any of the regulators are shared between
multiple supplies on the same device (as is rather likely) then this
will test our locking. Note that in this case we only delay once for
each physical regulator so the threads shouldn't block each other while
delaying.

It'd be even nicer if we could coalesce writes to a shared enable registers
in PMICs but that's definitely future work, and it may also be useful
and is certainly more achievable to optimise out the parallelism if none
of the regulators implement ramp delays.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
---

Targetted at 2.6.41 obviously.

drivers/regulator/core.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
include/linux/regulator/consumer.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 2484dbe..60ae920 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/suspend.h>
@@ -2233,6 +2234,13 @@ err:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_bulk_get);

+static void regulator_bulk_enable_async(void *data, async_cookie_t cookie)
+{
+ struct regulator_bulk_data *bulk = data;
+
+ bulk->ret = regulator_enable(bulk->consumer);
+}
+
/**
* regulator_bulk_enable - enable multiple regulator consumers
*
@@ -2248,21 +2256,33 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_bulk_get);
int regulator_bulk_enable(int num_consumers,
struct regulator_bulk_data *consumers)
{
+ LIST_HEAD(async_domain);
int i;
- int ret;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < num_consumers; i++)
+ async_schedule_domain(regulator_bulk_enable_async,
+ &consumers[i], &async_domain);
+
+ async_synchronize_full_domain(&async_domain);

+ /* If any consumer failed we need to unwind any that succeeded */
for (i = 0; i < num_consumers; i++) {
- ret = regulator_enable(consumers[i].consumer);
- if (ret != 0)
+ if (consumers[i].ret != 0) {
+ ret = consumers[i].ret;
goto err;
+ }
}

return 0;

err:
- pr_err("Failed to enable %s: %d\n", consumers[i].supply, ret);
- for (--i; i >= 0; --i)
- regulator_disable(consumers[i].consumer);
+ for (i = 0; i < num_consumers; i++)
+ if (consumers[i].ret == 0)
+ regulator_disable(consumers[i].consumer);
+ else
+ pr_err("Failed to enable %s: %d\n",
+ consumers[i].supply, consumers[i].ret);

return ret;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/regulator/consumer.h b/include/linux/regulator/consumer.h
index 9e87c1c..26f6ea4 100644
--- a/include/linux/regulator/consumer.h
+++ b/include/linux/regulator/consumer.h
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ struct regulator;
struct regulator_bulk_data {
const char *supply;
struct regulator *consumer;
+
+ /* Internal use */
+ int ret;
};

#if defined(CONFIG_REGULATOR)
--
1.7.5.1


2011-05-24 10:07:28

by Liam Girdwood

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: Do bulk enables of regulators in parallel

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 08:12 +0800, Mark Brown wrote:
> In order to reduce the impact of ramp times rather than enabling the
> regulators for a device in series use async tasks to run the actual
> enables. This means that the delays which the enables implement can all
> run in parallel, though it does mean that the order in which the
> supplies come on may be unstable.
>
> For super bonus fun points if any of the regulators are shared between
> multiple supplies on the same device (as is rather likely) then this
> will test our locking. Note that in this case we only delay once for
> each physical regulator so the threads shouldn't block each other while
> delaying.
>
> It'd be even nicer if we could coalesce writes to a shared enable registers
> in PMICs but that's definitely future work, and it may also be useful
> and is certainly more achievable to optimise out the parallelism if none
> of the regulators implement ramp delays.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> Targetted at 2.6.41 obviously.
>

Applied.

Thanks

Liam