Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: suspend/resume governors with PM notifiers

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On 11/15/2013 04:12 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> This patch adds PM notifiers for handling suspend/resume of cpufreq governors.
> This is required for early suspend and late resume of governors.
> 
> There are multiple reasons that support this patch:
> - Firstly it looks very much logical to stop governors when we know we are going
>   into suspend. But the question is when? Is PM notifiers the right place?
>   Following reasons are the supporting hands for this decision.
> - Nishanth Menon (TI) found an interesting problem on his platform, OMAP. His board
>   wasn't working well with suspend/resume as calls for removing non-boot CPUs
>   was turning out into a call to drivers ->target() which then tries to play
>   with regulators. But regulators and their I2C bus were already suspended and
>   this resulted in a failure. This is why we need a PM notifier here.
> - Lan Tianyu (Intel) & Jinhyuk Choi (Broadcom) found another issue where
>   tunables configuration for clusters/sockets with non-boot CPUs was getting
>   lost after suspend/resume, as we were notifying governors with
>   CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT on removal of the last cpu for that policy and so
>   deallocating memory for tunables.
> 
> All above problems get fixed with having a PM notifier in place which will stop
> any operation on governor. Hence no need to do any special handling of variables
> like (frozen) in suspend/resume paths.
> 
> Reported-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Jinhyuk Choi <jinchoi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Can you please verify if this fixes issues reported by you? I have tested this
> for multiple suspend-resumes on my thinkpad. It doesn't crash :)

Yes, this does fix the issue for me.

Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
based on vendor kernel on top of v3.12 tag (equivalent diff:
http://pastebin.mozilla.org/3609407)

OMAP5-uEVM(OMAP5432): http://pastebin.mozilla.org/3609396

> 
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index 02d534d..c87ced9 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/mutex.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/suspend.h>
>  #include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
>  #include <linux/tick.h>
>  #include <trace/events/power.h>
> @@ -47,6 +48,9 @@ static LIST_HEAD(cpufreq_policy_list);
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char[CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN], cpufreq_cpu_governor);
>  #endif
>  
> +/* Flag to suspend/resume CPUFreq governors */
> +static bool cpufreq_suspended;
> +
>  static inline bool has_target(void)
>  {
>  	return cpufreq_driver->target_index || cpufreq_driver->target;
> @@ -1462,6 +1466,54 @@ static struct subsys_interface cpufreq_interface = {
>  	.remove_dev	= cpufreq_remove_dev,
>  };
>  
> +/*
> + * PM Notifier for suspending governors as some platforms can't change frequency
> + * after this point in suspend cycle. Because some of the devices (like: i2c,
> + * regulators, etc) they use for changing frequency are suspended quickly after
> + * this point.
> + */
> +static int cpufreq_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
> +		void *data)
> +{
> +	struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	if (!has_target())
> +		return NOTIFY_OK;
> +
> +	if (action == PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE) {
> +		pr_debug("%s: Suspending Governors\n", __func__);
> +
> +		list_for_each_entry(policy, &cpufreq_policy_list, policy_list)
> +			if (__cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP))
> +				pr_err("%s: Failed to stop governor for policy: %p\n",
> +						__func__, policy);
> +
> +		write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> +		cpufreq_suspended = true;
> +		write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> +	} else if (action == PM_POST_SUSPEND) {
> +		pr_debug("%s: Resuming Governors\n", __func__);
> +
> +		write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> +		cpufreq_suspended = false;
> +		write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> +
> +		list_for_each_entry(policy, &cpufreq_policy_list, policy_list)
> +			if (__cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_START) ||
> +					__cpufreq_governor(policy,
> +						CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS))
> +				pr_err("%s: Failed to start governor for policy: %p\n",
> +						__func__, policy);
> +	}
> +
> +	return NOTIFY_OK;
> +}
> +
> +static struct notifier_block cpufreq_pm_notifier = {
> +	.notifier_call = cpufreq_pm_notify,
> +};
> +
>  /**
>   * cpufreq_bp_suspend - Prepare the boot CPU for system suspend.
>   *
> @@ -1752,6 +1804,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpufreq_driver_target);
>  static int __cpufreq_governor(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
>  					unsigned int event)
>  {
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	bool is_suspended;
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	/* Only must be defined when default governor is known to have latency
> @@ -1764,6 +1818,14 @@ static int __cpufreq_governor(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
>  	struct cpufreq_governor *gov = NULL;
>  #endif
>  
> +	/* Don't start any governor operations if we are entering suspend */
> +	read_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> +	is_suspended = cpufreq_suspended;
> +	read_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> +
> +	if (is_suspended)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	if (policy->governor->max_transition_latency &&
>  	    policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency >
>  	    policy->governor->max_transition_latency) {
> @@ -2222,6 +2284,7 @@ static int __init cpufreq_core_init(void)
>  	cpufreq_global_kobject = kobject_create();
>  	BUG_ON(!cpufreq_global_kobject);
>  	register_syscore_ops(&cpufreq_syscore_ops);
> +	register_pm_notifier(&cpufreq_pm_notifier);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 


-- 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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