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From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/48] opp: Add dev_pm_opp_find_level_ceil()
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On 28-12-20, 17:03, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 28.12.2020 09:22, Viresh Kumar пишет:
> > On 24-12-20, 16:00, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> >> In a device driver I want to set PD to the lowest performance state by
> >> removing the performance vote when dev_pm_opp_set_rate(dev, 0) is
> >> invoked by the driver.
> >>
> >> The OPP core already does this, but if OPP levels don't start from 0 in
> >> a device-tree for PD, then it currently doesn't work since there is a
> >> need to get a rounded-up performance state because
> >> dev_pm_opp_set_voltage() takes OPP entry for the argument (patches 9 and
> >> 28).
> >>
> >> The PD powering off and performance-changes are separate from each other
> >> in the GENPD core. The GENPD core automatically turns off domain when
> >> all devices within the domain are suspended by system-suspend or RPM.
> >>
> >> The performance state of a power domain is controlled solely by a device
> >> driver. GENPD core only aggregates the performance requests, it doesn't
> >> change the performance state of a domain by itself when device is
> >> suspended or resumed, IIUC this is intentional. And I want to put domain
> >> into lowest performance state when device is suspended.
> > 
> > Right, so if you really want to just drop the performance vote, then with a
> > value of 0 for the performance state the call will reach to your genpd's
> > callback ->set_performance_state(). Just as dev_pm_opp_set_rate() accepts the
> > frequency to be 0, I would expect dev_pm_opp_set_rate() to accept opp argument
> > as NULL and in that case set voltage to 0 and do regulator_disable() as well.
> > Won't that work better than going for the lowest voltage ?
> > 
> 
> We can make dev_pm_opp_set_voltage() to accept OPP=NULL in order to
> disable the regulator, like it's done for dev_pm_opp_set_rate(dev, 0).
> Although, I don't need this kind of behaviour for the Tegra PD driver,
> and thus, would prefer to leave this for somebody else to implement in
> the future, once it will be really needed.
> 
> Still we need the dev_pm_opp_find_level_ceil() because level=0 means
> that we want to set PD to the lowest (minimal) performance state, i.e.
> it doesn't necessarily mean that we want to set the voltage to 0 and
> disable the PD entirely. GENPD has a separate controls for on/off.

Ok.

-- 
viresh