Re: [PATCH v6 00/18] Consolidate and improve NVIDIA Tegra CPUIDLE driver(s)

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:14:07PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 16.10.2019 22:47, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
> > 16.10.2019 22:21, Peter De Schrijver пишет:
> >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 07:59:57PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> This series does the following:
> >>>
> >>>   1. Unifies Tegra20/30/114 drivers into a single driver and moves it out
> >>>      into common drivers/cpuidle/ directory.
> >>>
> >>>   2. Enables CPU cluster power-down idling state on Tegra30.
> >>>
> >>> In the end there is a quite nice clean up of the Tegra CPUIDLE drivers
> >>> and of the Tegra's arch code in general. Please review, thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Changelog:
> >>>
> >>> v6: - Addressed request from Thierry Reding to change the way patches are
> >>>       organized by making changes in a more incremental manner.
> >>>
> >>>     - tegra_sleep_cpu() now checks for the secondary CPUs to be offline
> >>>       in the "Make outer_disable() open-coded" patch.
> >>>
> >>> v5: - Rebased on a recent linux-next, fixed one minor conflict in Kconfig.
> >>>
> >>>     - Improved commit's message of the "Support CPU cluster power-down state
> >>>       on Tegra30" patch.
> >>>
> >>>     - The "Support CPU cluster power-down state on Tegra30" patch is also
> >>>       got split and now there is additional "Make outer_disable() open-coded"
> >>>       patch.
> >>>
> >>>     - Made minor cosmetic changes to the "Introduce unified driver for
> >>>       NVIDIA Tegra SoCs" patch by improving error message and renaming
> >>>       one variable.
> >>>
> >>> v4: - Fixed compilation with !CONFIG_CACHE_L2X0 (and tested that it still
> >>>       works).
> >>>
> >>>     - Replaced ktime_compare() with ktime_before() in the new driver,
> >>>       for consistency.
> >>>
> >>> v3: - Addressed review comments that were made by Jon Hunter to v2 by
> >>>       splitting patches into smaller (and simpler) chunks, better
> >>>       documenting changes in the commit messages and using proper error
> >>>       codes in the code.
> >>>
> >>>       Warnings are replaced with a useful error messages in the code of
> >>>       "Introduce unified driver for NVIDIA Tegra SoCs" patch.
> >>>
> >>>       Secondary CPUs parking timeout increased to 100ms because I found
> >>>       that it actually may happen to take more than 1ms if CPU is running
> >>>       on a *very* low frequency.
> >>>
> >>>       Added diagnostic messages that are reporting Flow Controller state
> >>>       when CPU parking fails.
> >>>
> >>>       Further polished cpuidle driver's code.
> >>>
> >>>       The coupled state entering is now aborted if there is a pending SGI
> >>>       (Software Generated Interrupt) because it will be lost after GIC's
> >>>       power-cycling. Like it was done by the old Tegra20 CPUIDLE driver.
> >>>
> >>> v2: - Added patches to enable the new cpuidle driver in the defconfigs:
> >>>
> >>>         ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable Tegra cpuidle driver
> >>>         ARM: tegra: Enable Tegra cpuidle driver in tegra_defconfig
> >>>
> >>>     - Dropped patches that removed CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP from the idling
> >>>       states because that flag actually doesn't have any negative effects,
> >>>       but still is correct for the case of a local CPU timer on older Tegra
> >>>       SoCs:
> >>>
> >>>         cpuidle: tegra: Remove CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP from Tegra114/124 idle-state
> >>>         cpuidle: tegra: Remove CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP from all states
> >>>
> >>>     - The "Add unified driver for NVIDIA Tegra SoCs" patch got more polish.
> >>>       Tegra30 and Terga114 states are now squashed into a single common C7
> >>>       state (following Parker TRM terminology, see 17.2.2.2 Power Management
> >>>       States), more comments added, etc minor changes.
> >>
> >> It would be useful to switch the power state terminology to the one used
> >> for later chips:
> >>
> >> LP0 becomes SC7
> >> LP1 becomes C1
> >> LP2 becomes CC7
> >>
> >> Meaning of these states is as follows
> >>
> >> C is a core state:
> >>
> >> C1 clock gating
> >> C2 not defined
> >> C3 not defined
> >> C4 not defined
> >> C5 not defined
> >> C6 not defined for ARM cores
> >> C7 power-gating
> >>
> >> CC is a CPU cluster C state:
> >>
> >> CC1 cluster clock gated
> >> CC2 not defined
> >> CC3 fmax@Vmin: not used prior to Tegra186
> >> CC4: cluster retention: no longer supported
> >> CC5: not defined
> >> CC6: cluster power gating
> >> CC7: cluster rail gating
> >>
> >> SC is a System C state:
> >>
> >> SC1: not defined
> >> SC2: not defined
> >> SC3: not defined
> >> SC4: not defined
> >> SC5: not defined
> >> SC6: not defined
> >> SC7: VDD_SOC off
> > 
> > Hello Peter,
> > 
> > But new "drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-tegra.c" uses exactly that terminology,
> > please see "cpuidle: Refactor and move NVIDIA Tegra20 driver into
> > drivers/cpuidle/" and further patches. Am I missing something? Or do you
> > want the renaming to be a separate patch?
> > 
> 
> Or maybe you're suggesting to change the names everywhere and not only
> in the cpuidle driver? Please clarify :)

At least some of the variable and function names still say lp2?

Peter.




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