Re: [PATCH v3] drm/panfrost: Ignore core_mask for poweroff and sync interrupts

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On 23/11/2023 13:05, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Some SoCs may be equipped with a GPU containing two core groups
> and this is exactly the case of Samsung's Exynos 5422 featuring
> an ARM Mali-T628 MP6 GPU: the support for this GPU in Panfrost
> is partial, as this driver currently supports using only one
> core group and that's reflected on all parts of it, including
> the power on (and power off, previously to this patch) function.
> 
> The issue with this is that even though executing the soft reset
> operation should power off all cores unconditionally, on at least
> one platform we're seeing a crash that seems to be happening due
> to an interrupt firing which may be because we are calling power
> transition only on the first core group, leaving the second one
> unchanged, or because ISR execution was pending before entering
> the panfrost_gpu_power_off() function and executed after powering
> off the GPU cores, or all of the above.
> 
> Finally, solve this by introducing a new panfrost_gpu_suspend_irq()
> helper function and changing the panfrost_device_suspend() flow to
>  1. Mask and clear all interrupts: we don't need nor want any, as
>     for power_off() we are polling PWRTRANS, but we anyway don't
>     want GPU IRQs to fire while it is suspended/powered off;
>  2. Call synchronize_irq() after that to make sure that any pending
>     ISR is executed before powering off the GPU Shaders/Tilers/L2
>     hence avoiding unpowered registers R/W; and
>  3. Ignore the core_mask and ask the GPU to poweroff both core groups
> 
> Of course it was also necessary to add a `irq` variable to `struct
> panfrost_device` as we need to get that in panfrost_gpu_power_off()
> for calling synchronize_irq() on it.
> 
> Fixes: 22aa1a209018 ("drm/panfrost: Really power off GPU cores in panfrost_gpu_power_off()")
> [Regression detected on Odroid HC1, Exynos5422, Mali-T628 MP6]
> Reported-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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