Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938789AbcKLKZK (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2016 05:25:10 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com ([74.125.82.50]:37984 "EHLO mail-wm0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936602AbcKLKZH (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2016 05:25:07 -0500 Subject: Re: PM regression with LED changes in next-20161109 To: Hans de Goede , Pavel Machek References: <20161109192301.GS26979@atomide.com> <28234714-3994-6747-9cf8-1ff0b3257f7a@gmail.com> <5bd5333e-0dbb-6333-0a48-ca4d3a990f9c@samsung.com> <20161110162925.GA28832@amd> <20161110175537.GF27724@atomide.com> <20161110202910.GE28832@amd> <80b645e7-c3fa-8001-d9b1-c3c8c40394fd@gmail.com> <20161111120114.GA1076@amd> Cc: Tony Lindgren , Jacek Anaszewski , linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Darren Hart From: Jacek Anaszewski Message-ID: <4c31faef-144d-289c-0e32-83e76aff6178@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:24:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4187 Lines: 108 Hi, On 11/11/2016 08:28 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 11-11-16 18:03, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: >> On 11/11/2016 01:01 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >>> On Thu 2016-11-10 22:34:07, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On 11/10/2016 09:29 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >>>>> On Thu 2016-11-10 10:55:37, Tony Lindgren wrote: >>>>>> * Pavel Machek [161110 09:29]: >>>>>>> Hi! >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Looks like commit 883d32ce3385 ("leds: core: Add support for >>>>>>>>>>> poll()ing >>>>>>>>>>> the sysfs brightness attr for changes.") breaks runtime PM >>>>>>>>>>> for me. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On my omap dm3730 based test system, idle power consumption >>>>>>>>>>> is over 70 >>>>>>>>>>> times higher now with this patch! It goes from about 6mW for >>>>>>>>>>> the core >>>>>>>>>>> system to over 440mW during idle meaning there's some busy >>>>>>>>>>> timer now >>>>>>>>>>> active. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Reverting this patch fixes the issue. Any ideas? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Are you using any LED that toggles with high frequency? Like perhaps >>>>>>> LED that is lit when CPU is active? >>>>>> >>>>>> Yeah one of them seems to have cpu0 as the default trigger. >>>>> >>>>> Aha. Its quite obvious we don't want to notify sysfs each time that >>>>> one is toggled, right? >>>>> >>>>> IMO brightness should display max brightness for the trigger, as Hans >>>>> suggested, anything else is madness for trigger such as cpu activity. >>>> >>>> Are you suggesting that we should revert changes introduced >>>> by below patch? >>>> >>>> commit 29d76dfa29fe22583aefddccda0bc56aa81035dc >>>> Author: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh >>>> Date: Tue Mar 18 09:47:48 2008 +0000 >>>> >>>> leds: Add support to leds with readable status >>>> >>>> Some led hardware allows drivers to query the led state, and >>>> this patch >>>> adds a hook to let the led class take advantage of that >>>> information when >>>> available. >>>> >>>> Without this functionality, when access to the led hardware is not >>>> exclusive (i.e. firmware or hardware might change its state >>>> behind the >>>> kernel's back), reality goes out of sync with the led class' >>>> idea of >>>> what >>>> the led is doing, which is annoying at best. >>> >>> Hmm. So userland can read the LED state, and it can get _some_ value >>> back, but it can not know if it is current state or not. >>> >>> I don't think that's a good interface. I see it is from 2008... is >>> someone using it? Maybe it is too late for revert. >> >> I can imagine it being used in flash LED use case. E.g. one >> could use oneshot trigger to trigger flash strobe, and then >> he could periodically read brightness file to check, for whatever >> reason, whether the flash is strobing. >> >>> But I'd certainly not extend it with poll. >> >> We could add a dedicated file e.g. hw_brightness_change for that >> (maybe someone will have a better candidate for the file name). > > Why a dedicated file? Are we going to mirror brightness here > wrt r/w (show/store) behavior ? If not userspace now needs > 2 open fds which is not really nice. If we are and we are > not going to use poll for something else on brightness itself > then why not just poll directly on brightness ? My main concern is that reporting only hw brightness changes wouldn't be consistent with general brightness file purpose. One could expect that brightness changes made by triggers should be also reported. I'd make it only readable, so it wouldn't mirror brightness file behavior. Its purpose would be clear: notify hw brightness changes and provide the brightness value that was set by the hardware last time. It implies that this value could be different from the one the brightness file reports. E.g. hw could have changed brightness, which could be later updated through brightness file, but hw_brightness_change would still report brightness level that was set by the hardware last time. It could be useful e.g. in case of showing the difference between the desired value and the currently allowed configuration (e.g. if the firmware automatically adjusted the value set by the user). -- Best regards, Jacek Anaszewski