[PATCH] drm/panthor: Fix the CONFIG_PM=n case

Steven Price steven.price at arm.com
Mon Mar 18 14:34:07 UTC 2024


On 18/03/2024 14:18, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:49:52 +0000
> Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 18/03/2024 13:08, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:31:05 +0000
>>> Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>> On 18/03/2024 08:58, Boris Brezillon wrote:  
>>>>> Putting a hard dependency on CONFIG_PM is not possible because of a
>>>>> circular dependency issue, and it's actually not desirable either. In
>>>>> order to support this use case, we forcibly resume at init time, and
>>>>> suspend at unplug time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
>>>>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202403031944.EOimQ8WK-lkp@intel.com/
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com>    
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
>>>>  
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Tested by faking CONFIG_PM=n in the driver (basically commenting
>>>>> all pm_runtime calls, and making the panthor_device_suspend/resume()
>>>>> calls unconditional in the panthor_device_unplug/init() path) since
>>>>> CONFIG_ARCH_ROCKCHIP selects CONFIG_PM. Seems to work fine, but I
>>>>> can't be 100% sure this will work correctly on a platform that has
>>>>> CONFIG_PM=n.    
>>>>
>>>> The same - I can't test this properly :(
>>>>
>>>> Note that the other option (which AFAICT doesn't cause any problems) is
>>>> to "select PM" rather than depend on it - AIUI the 'select' dependency
>>>> is considered in the opposite direction by kconfig so won't cause the
>>>> dependency loop.  
>>>
>>> Doesn't seem to work with COMPILE_TEST though? I mean, we need
>>> something like
>>>
>>> 	depends on ARM || ARM64 || (COMPILE_TEST && PM)
>>> 	...
>>> 	select PM
>>>
>>> but kconfig doesn't like that  
>>
>> Why do we need the "&& PM" part? Just:
>>
>> 	depends on ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
>> 	...
>> 	select PM
>>
>> Or at least that appears to work for me.
> 
> Uh, you're right, sorry for the brain fart. This is being said, I
> see no other driver selecting the PM option directly (if you grep for
> 'select PM' in drivers/, you'll find occurrences in drivers/soc, but
> those are under ARCH_/SOC_ options, which means they are indirectly
> arch/platform dependent, not driver dependent). I'm really not sure
> selecting PM here from a driver is right to be honest.

Yeah, I'm not very convinced about that either. It's just a pain that
the code is going to go untested.

>>
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/Kconfig:3:error: recursive dependency detected!
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/Kconfig:3:	symbol DRM_PANTHOR depends on
>>> PM kernel/power/Kconfig:183:	symbol PM is selected by DRM_PANTHOR
>>>
>>> which id why I initially when for a depends on PM
>>>
>>>   
>>>> Of course if there is actually anyone who has a
>>>> platform which can be built !CONFIG_PM then that won't help. But the
>>>> inability of anyone to actually properly test this configuration does
>>>> worry me a little.  
>>>
>>> Well, as long as it doesn't regress the PM behavior, I think I'm happy
>>> to take the risk. Worst case scenario, someone complains that this is
>>> not working properly when they do the !PM bringup :-).  
>>
>> Indeed, I've no objection to this patch - although I really should have
>> compiled tested it as Robin pointed out ;)
>>
>> But one other thing I've noticed when compile testing it - we don't
>> appear to have fully fixed the virt_to_pfn() problem. On x86 with
>> COMPILE_TEST I still get an error. Looking at the code it appears that
>> virt_to_pfn() isn't available on x86... it overrides asm/page.h and
>> doesn't provide a definition. The definition on x86 is hiding in
>> asm/xen/page.h.
> 
> Looks like the kbuild bot didn't catch that yet :-).
> 
>>
>> Outside of arch code it's only drivers/xen that currently uses that
>> function. So I guess it's probably best to do a
>> PFN_DOWN(virt_to_phys(...)) instead. Or look to fix x86 :)
> 
> Mind sending a fix for that?

Yeah, I'll have a go at Robin's suggestion of storing the struct page
instead.

Steve



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