On Monday 08 July 2013 07:05 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 06:50:01PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>>>>>>>> I wonder if this is because the timeouts get now initialized to 0 instead
>>>>>>>> of -1 for the serial driver?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You meant initialized to -1, right? There's an additional check for timeout being 0. Unless i
>>>>>>> am missing something DT-boot will start off with timeout set to 0 and then get forced to -1.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK
>>>>
>>>> Issue 2: Causing boot to stop when serial driver is initialized.
>>>> (After Issue 1 is fixed)
>>>>
>>>> I could narrow this down to the change done to return -EINVAL
>>>> instead of 0 in serial_omap_get_context_loss_count() as part of
>>>> commit 'a630fbfbb1beeffc5bbe542a7986bf2068874633' "serial: omap:
>>>> Fix device tree based PM runtime"
>>>>
>>>> What this change in turn seems to do is cause a
>>>> serial_omap_restore_context() to get called as part of
>>>> serial_omap_runtime_resume() which was not the case when
>>>> serial_omap_get_context_loss_count() returned 0
>>>>
>>>> from serial_omap_runtime_resume():
>>>> -----
>>>> int loss_cnt = serial_omap_get_context_loss_count(up);
>>>>
>>>> if (loss_cnt < 0) {
>>>> dev_dbg(dev, "serial_omap_get_context_loss_count failed : %d\n",
>>>> loss_cnt);
>>>> serial_omap_restore_context(up);
>>>> } else if (up->context_loss_cnt != loss_cnt) {
>>>> serial_omap_restore_context(up);
>>>> }
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>> I am still working on why a serial_omap_restore_context() could
>>>> have caused console to die. I will work with Sourav on this and
>>>> post the fixes for both issue 1 and issue2 once its clear on whats
>>>> really causing issue 2.
>>>
>>> That's because we don't have the omap specific pdata callbacks for
>>> context loss any longer. We may be able to detect when the context
>>> was really lost in the serial driver, and only then call the
>>> serial_omap_restore_context().
>>
>> Right, but calling serial_omap_restore_context() even when the context
>> is not lost, should not ideally cause an issue.
>
> it does in one condition. If context hasn't been saved before. And that
> can happen in the case of wrong pm runtime status for that device.
>
> Imagine the device is marked as suspended even though it's fully enabled
> (it hasn't been suspended by hwmod due to NO_IDLE flag). In that case
> your context structure is all zeroes (context has never been saved
> before) then when you call pm_runtime_get_sync() on probe() your
> ->runtime_resume() will get called, which will restore context,
> essentially undoing anything which was configured by u-boot.
This could be a problem for drivers which do a save context in ->runtime_suspend()
but from what I see with omap serial, there is no save context done as part of
->runtime_suspend.
>
> Am I missing something ?
>
>>>> Let me know if the fix I listed for Issue 1: makes sense.
>>>
>>> Yes makes sense as a fix, but IMHO we should not need any workarounds
>>> like that. Is the hwmod code idling the the uarts early? If so, then
>>> it should only do that in a late_initcall if no drivers are registered.
>>
>> hwmod as part of its setup (early) enables/resets and idles all modules.
>> These flags are used to tell hwmod to avoid a reset and idle and leave the
>> module enabled (in this case console uart)
>
> then it needs to call pm_runtime_set_active() for those devices which
> have that flag set, right ?
>
> (completely untested, didn't even try to compile, just to illustrate)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> index 7341eff..d8dca68 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> @@ -2559,6 +2559,12 @@ static void __init _setup_postsetup(struct omap_hwmod *oh)
> (postsetup_state == _HWMOD_STATE_IDLE)) {
> oh->_int_flags |= _HWMOD_SKIP_ENABLE;
> postsetup_state = _HWMOD_STATE_ENABLED;
> +
> + /* tell pm_runtime this device is already active */
> + pm_runtime_set_active(&oh->od->pdev->dev);
> + } else {
> + /* tell pm_runtime this device is trully suspended */
> + pm_runtime_set_suspended(&oh->od->pdev->dev);
> }
>
> if (postsetup_state == _HWMOD_STATE_IDLE)
>
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