Hi Ulf, On 13/03/17 11:45, Ulf Hansson wrote: > +Björn > > On 13 March 2017 at 10:37, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Rafael, Kevin, Ulf, >> >> Looks like there is still some interest/needs in/for this. Any thoughts >> on how we can move this forward? > > At the Linaro Connect last week, I was talking to Björn, Rajendra and > Stephen more about these related issues. > > It definitely seems like we need to progress with this somehow, > meaning we need a solution for being able to associate a device with > more than one PM domain. In that context, I don't think genpd based on > its current design, is a good fit to solve the problem. > > Instead I think we need something entirely new (perhaps some code can > be borrowed from genpd), which is more similar to the clock/regulator > framework. In other words, what you also were suggesting in a earlier > reply. > In this way, the driver/subsystem gains full flexibility of managing > its device's PM domains, which seems like the best future-proof > solution. I agree, I think that that would give us the most flexibility to handle whatever scenario. However, I was thinking that we could still use the genpd core to register pm-domains with and control. My thought was to allow devices to have a bindings with multiple pm-domains ... dev-xyz { ... power-domains = <&domain-a>, <&domain-b>; }; Then in the genpd core we do having something like ... diff --git a/drivers/base/power/domain.c b/drivers/base/power/domain.c index e697dec9d25b..d1ae6ddf4903 100644 --- a/drivers/base/power/domain.c +++ b/drivers/base/power/domain.c @@ -2026,6 +2026,15 @@ int genpd_dev_pm_attach(struct device *dev) "samsung,power-domain", 0); if (!pd_args.np) return -ENOENT; + } else if (ret > 1) { + /* + * If there are more than one PM domain defined for a device, + * then these need to be manually controlled by the device + * driver because the genpd core cannot bind a device with + * more than one PM domain. + */ + dev_dbg(dev, "cannot add PM domains, %d detected!\n", ret); + return 0; } Then add some new public APIs for getting and controlling the pm-domains ... struct generic_pm_domain *pm_genpd_get(struct device *dev, char *name); - Use 'dev->of_node' to look-up pm-domain if populated, else uses name. struct generic_pm_domain *of_pm_genpd_get(struct device *dev, int index); void pm_genpd_put(struct generic_pm_domain *pd); int pm_genpd_power_on(struct generic_pm_domain *pd); int pm_genpd_power_off(struct generic_pm_domain *pd); - Power on/off APIs would be synchronous types Are there any potential pitfalls of the above? Cheers Jon -- nvpublic -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html