On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:18 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The DSDTs on most Cherry Trail devices have an ugly clutch where the PWM
> controller gets turned off from the _PS3 method of the graphics-card dev:
>
> Method (_PS3, 0, Serialized) // _PS3: Power State 3
> {
> ...
> PWMB = PWMC /* \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0.PWMC */
> PSAT |= 0x03
> Local0 = PSAT /* \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0.PSAT */
> ...
> }
>
> Where PSAT is the power-status register of the PWM controller.
>
> Since the i915 driver will do a pwm_get on the pwm device as it uses it to
> control the LCD panel backlight, there is a device-link marking the i915
> device as a consumer of the pwm device. So that the PWM controller will
> always be suspended after the i915 driver suspends (which is the right
> thing to do). This causes the above GFX0 PS3 AML code to run before
> acpi_lpss.c calls acpi_lpss_save_ctx().
>
> So on these devices the PWM controller will already be off when
> acpi_lpss_save_ctx() runs. This causes it to read/save all 1-s (0xffffffff)
> as ctx register values.
>
> When these bogus values get restored on resume the PWM controller actually
> keeps working, since most bits are reserved, but this does set bit 3 of
> the LPSS General purpose register, which for the PWM controller has the
> following function: "This bit is re-used to support 32kHz slow mode.
> Default is 19.2MHz as PWM source clock".
>
> This causes the clock of the PWM controller to switch from 19.2MHz to
> 32KHz, which is a slow-down of a factor 600. Surprisingly enough so far
> there have been few bug reports about this. This is likely because the
> i915 driver was hardcoding the PWM frequency to 46 KHz, which divided
> by 600 would result in a PWM frequency of approx. 78 Hz, which mostly
> still works fine. There are some bug reports about the LCD backlight
> flickering after suspend/resume which are likely caused by this issue.
>
> But with the upcoming patch-series to finally switch the i915 drivers
> code for external PWM controllers to use the atomic API and to honor
> the PWM frequency specified in the video BIOS (VBT), this becomes a much
> bigger problem. On most cases the VBT specifies either 200 Hz or 20
> KHz as PWM frequency, which with the mentioned issue ends up being either
> 1/3 Hz, where the backlight actually visible blinks on and off every 3s,
> or in 33 Hz and horrible flickering of the backlight.
>
> There are a number of possible solutions to this problem:
>
> 1. Make acpi_lpss_save_ctx() run before GFX0._PS3
> Pro: Clean solution from pov of not medling with save/restore ctx code
> Con: As mentioned the current ordering is the right thing to do
> Con: Requires assymmetry in at what suspend/resume phase we do the save vs
> restore, requiring more suspend/resume ordering hacks in already
> convoluted acpi_lpss.c suspend/resume code.
> 2. Do some sort of save once mode for the LPSS ctx
> Pro: Reasonably clean
> Con: Needs a new LPSS flag + code changes to handle the flag
> 3. Detect we have failed to save the ctx registers and do not restore them
> Pro: Not PWM specific, might help with issues on other LPSS devices too
> Con: If we can get away with not restoring the ctx why bother with it at
> all?
> 4. Do not save the ctx for CHT PWM controllers
> Pro: Clean, as simple as dropping a flag?
> Con: Not so simple as dropping a flag, needs a new flag to ensure that
> we still do lpss_deassert_reset() on device activation.
> 5. Make the pwm-lpss code fixup the LPSS-context registers
> Pro: Keeps acpi_lpss.c code clean
> Con: Moves knowledge of LPSS-context into the pwm-lpss.c code
>
> 1 and 5 both do not seem to be a desirable way forward.
>
> 3 and 4 seem ok, but they both assume that restoring the LPSS-context
> registers is not necessary. I have done a couple of test and those do
> show that restoring the LPSS-context indeed does not seem to be necessary
> on devices using s2idle suspend (and successfully reaching S0i3). But I
> have no hardware to test deep / S3 suspend. So I'm not sure that not
> restoring the context is safe.
>
> That leaves solution 2, which is about as simple / clean as 3 and 4,
> so this commit fixes the described problem by implementing a new
> LPSS_SAVE_CTX_ONCE flag and setting that for the CHT PWM controllers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Move #define LPSS_SAVE_CTX_ONCE define to group it with LPSS_SAVE_CTX
> ---
> drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
> index 446e666b3466..7e6db0f1d9ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
> @@ -67,7 +67,15 @@ ACPI_MODULE_NAME("acpi_lpss");
> #define LPSS_CLK_DIVIDER BIT(2)
> #define LPSS_LTR BIT(3)
> #define LPSS_SAVE_CTX BIT(4)
> -#define LPSS_NO_D3_DELAY BIT(5)
> +/*
> + * For some devices the DSDT AML code for another device turns off the device
> + * before our suspend handler runs, causing us to read/save all 1-s (0xffffffff)
> + * as ctx register values.
> + * Luckily these devices always use the same ctx register values, so we can
> + * work around this by saving the ctx registers once on activation.
> + */
> +#define LPSS_SAVE_CTX_ONCE BIT(5)
> +#define LPSS_NO_D3_DELAY BIT(6)
>
> struct lpss_private_data;
>
> @@ -254,7 +262,7 @@ static const struct lpss_device_desc byt_pwm_dev_desc = {
> };
>
> static const struct lpss_device_desc bsw_pwm_dev_desc = {
> - .flags = LPSS_SAVE_CTX | LPSS_NO_D3_DELAY,
> + .flags = LPSS_SAVE_CTX_ONCE | LPSS_NO_D3_DELAY,
> .prv_offset = 0x800,
> .setup = bsw_pwm_setup,
> .resume_from_noirq = true,
> @@ -885,9 +893,14 @@ static int acpi_lpss_activate(struct device *dev)
> * we have to deassert reset line to be sure that ->probe() will
> * recognize the device.
> */
> - if (pdata->dev_desc->flags & LPSS_SAVE_CTX)
> + if (pdata->dev_desc->flags & (LPSS_SAVE_CTX | LPSS_SAVE_CTX_ONCE))
> lpss_deassert_reset(pdata);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PM
> + if (pdata->dev_desc->flags & LPSS_SAVE_CTX_ONCE)
> + acpi_lpss_save_ctx(dev, pdata);
> +#endif
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -1036,7 +1049,7 @@ static int acpi_lpss_resume(struct device *dev)
>
> acpi_lpss_d3_to_d0_delay(pdata);
>
> - if (pdata->dev_desc->flags & LPSS_SAVE_CTX)
> + if (pdata->dev_desc->flags & (LPSS_SAVE_CTX | LPSS_SAVE_CTX_ONCE))
> acpi_lpss_restore_ctx(dev, pdata);
>
> return 0;
> --
> 2.26.2
>
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