Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] PM / devfreq: Add cpu based scaling support to passive governor

[Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>]

Hi,

On 17.05.2022 11:21, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> The devfreq passive governor has already supported the devfreq parent device
> for coupling the frequency change if some hardware have the constraints
> such as power sharing and so on.
>
> Add cpu based scaling support to passive governor with required-opp property.
> It uses the cpufreq notifier to catch the frequency change timing of cpufreq
> and get the next frequency according to new cpu frequency by using required-opp
> property. It is based on patch[1] and then just code clean-up by myself.
>
> Make the common code for both passive_devfreq and passive_cpufreq
> parent type to remove the duplicate code.

I've just tested it on Exynos based boards and on all I see the 
following issues after system suspend/resume cycle:

# time rtcwake -s10 -mmem
rtcwake: wakeup from "mem" using /dev/rtc0 at Wed May 18 11:13:16 2022
PM: suspend entry (deep)
Filesystems sync: 0.001 seconds
Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.002 seconds) done.
OOM killer disabled.
Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.002 seconds) done.

...

devfreq soc:bus-disp1-fimd: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-jpeg-apb: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-jpeg: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-g2d-acp: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-g2d: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-peri: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-gen: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-mfc: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-fsys2: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-fsys-apb: failed to suspend devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-noc: failed to suspend devfreq device
...
Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
...
devfreq soc:bus-mscl: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-gscl-scaler: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-disp1: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-disp1-fimd: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-jpeg-apb: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-jpeg: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-g2d-acp: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-g2d: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-peri: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-gen: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-mfc: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-fsys2: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-fsys-apb: failed to resume devfreq device
devfreq soc:bus-noc: failed to resume devfreq device

Some boards (like Trats2) after suspend/resume cycle reveals random crashes.

All those issues were not observed before applying this patchset.

> [1] [RFC,v2] PM / devfreq: Add cpu based scaling support to passive_governor
> - https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1101049/
>
> Changes from v4:
> : https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/cover/20220511093554.17535-1-cw00.choi@samsung.com/
> - Fix issue[2] reported by Marek Szyprowski
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/patch/20220511093554.17535-3-cw00.choi@samsung.com/
>
> Changes from v3:
> : ttps://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/cover/20220509120337.92472-1-cw00.choi@samsung.com/
> - Add tested-by tag of both Chen-Yu Tsai and Johnson Wang
> - Fix some typo
>
> Changes from v2:
> : https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/cover/20220507150145.531864-1-cw00.choi@samsung.com/
> - Drop the following patch ("PM / devfreq: passive: Update frequency when start governor")
> - Move p_data->this initialization into cpufreq_passive_regiser_notifier()
>
> Changes from v1:
> : https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/cover/20210617060546.26933-1-cw00.choi@samsung.com/
> - Rename cpu_data variable to parent_cpu_data to avoid build fail
> - Use for_each_possible_cpu macro when register cpufreq transition notifier
> - Add missing exception handling when cpufreq_passive_register_notifier is failed
> - Keep cpufreq_policy for posible cpus instead of NR_CPU in order to avoid
>    the memory waste when NR_CPU is too high.
> - Add reviewed-by tag of Matthias Kaehlcke for patch1
>
> Chanwoo Choi (3):
>    PM / devfreq: Export devfreq_get_freq_range symbol within devfreq
>    PM / devfreq: passive: Reduce duplicate code when passive_devfreq case
>    PM / devfreq: passive: Keep cpufreq_policy for possible cpus
>
> Saravana Kannan (1):
>    PM / devfreq: Add cpu based scaling support to passive governor
>
>   drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c          |  20 +-
>   drivers/devfreq/governor.h         |  27 ++
>   drivers/devfreq/governor_passive.c | 403 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   include/linux/devfreq.h            |  17 +-
>   4 files changed, 389 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
>
Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland