Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Allow inactive opp_device to be present in dev list

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On 11/25/2016 03:53 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Joonyoung Shim reported an interesting problem on his ARM octa-core
> Odoroid-XU3 platform. During system suspend, dev_pm_opp_put_regulator()
> was failing for a struct device for which dev_pm_opp_set_regulator() is
> called earlier.
> 
> This happened because an earlier call to
> dev_pm_opp_of_cpumask_remove_table() function (from cpufreq-dt.c file)
> removed all the entries from opp_table->dev_list apart from the last CPU
> device in the cpumask of CPUs sharing the OPP.
> 
> But both dev_pm_opp_set_regulator() and dev_pm_opp_put_regulator()
> routines get CPU device for the first CPU in the cpumask. And so the OPP
> core failed to find the OPP table for the struct device.
> 
> This patch attempts to fix this problem by adding another field in the
> struct opp_device: inactive.
> 
> Instead of removing the entries from the list during
> dev_pm_opp_of_cpumask_remove_table() function call, we mark them as
> inactive. Such inactive devices will not be used by the core in most of
> the cases, like before, but will be used only at special places which
> need to take inactive devices into account.
> 
> All the devices are removed from the list together now and that happens
> only when the opp_table gets destroyed.
> 
> This patch is tested on Dual A15, Exynos5250 platform by compiling the
> cpufreq-dt driver as a module. The module is inserted/removed multiple
> times with combinations of CPU offline/online steps.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

It's working well during system suspend/resume on my Odroid-XU3 board.

Tested-by: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.
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