[Intel-gfx] [RFC PATCH] drm/i915/skl: Add DC6 disabling as a power well

Imre Deak imre.deak at intel.com
Fri Sep 25 02:41:42 PDT 2015


On pe, 2015-09-25 at 10:56 +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 06:20:14PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 01:18:00PM +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:43:00AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:00:45AM +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:10:07PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 01:55:22PM +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
> > > > > > > > We need to be able to control if DC6 is allowed or not. Much like
> > > > > > > > requesting power to a specific piece of the hardware we need to be able
> > > > > > > > to request that we don't enter DC6 during certain hw access.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > To solve this without introducing too much infrastructure I'm hooking
> > > > > > > > into the power well / power domain framework. DC6 prevention is modeled
> > > > > > > > much like an enabled power well. Thus I'm using the terminology on/off
> > > > > > > > for DC states instead of enable/disable.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > The problem that started this work is the need for DC6 to be disabled
> > > > > > > > when accessing DP_AUX_A during CRTC on/off. That is also fixed in this
> > > > > > > > patch.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > This is posted as an RFC since DMC and DC state handling is being
> > > > > > > > reworked and will possibly affect the outcome of this patch. The patch
> > > > > > > > has known warnings.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.jakobsson at linux.intel.com>
> > > > > > > > ---
> > > > > > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c        |  9 +++++
> > > > > > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h        |  2 +
> > > > > > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > > > > > > >  3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c
> > > > > > > > index 4823184..c2c1ad2 100644
> > > > > > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c
> > > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c
> > > > > > > > @@ -2288,6 +2288,8 @@ static void intel_ddi_pre_enable(struct intel_encoder *intel_encoder)
> > > > > > > >  	if (type == INTEL_OUTPUT_DISPLAYPORT || type == INTEL_OUTPUT_EDP) {
> > > > > > > >  		struct intel_dp *intel_dp = enc_to_intel_dp(encoder);
> > > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > > +		intel_display_power_get(dev_priv, POWER_DOMAIN_AUX_A);
> > > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > These I think shouldn't be necessary with my
> > > > > > > intel_display_port_aux_power_domain() stuff since intel_dp_aux_ch() will
> > > > > > > itself grab the appropriate power domain.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > That's of course assuming that AUX is the only reason why we need to
> > > > > > > keep DC6 disabled here.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The upside with having get/put around bigger aux transfers is that we don't get
> > > > > > tons of enable/disable lines in the log. My vote is that we keep this but also
> > > > > > have your fine-grained get/puts.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Imo the correct solution to avoid this is by adding a slight bit of
> > > > > hystersis to the power well code. Which means that yes, we reinvent
> > > > > another feature of the core power_domain code in our home-grown solution -
> > > > > I hate it when my years old predictions come true ;-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sprinkling higher-level get/put calls all over the place is imo just
> > > > > leaking the abstraction, which isn't good.
> > > > > -Daniel
> > > > 
> > > > With Ville's patches the problem is not as bad as I first thought. We can add
> > > > hysteresis later if needed.
> > > > 
> > > > -Patrik
> > > 
> > > So I discovered that we cannot have DC5 and DC6 as seperate power wells since
> > > they are mutually exclusive. As Ville pointed out we don't use DC5 for anything
> > > so we could get away for now with just DC6 as a power well.
> > > 
> > > As I see it there are three ways to go about this:
> > > 
> > > A. Add AUX A to Power well 2.
> > > This would power up PW2 during DP Aux A even though we don't need it but since
> > > we get the side effect of DC6 being disabled it should work.
> > > 
> > > B. Add DC6 off as a power well and remove DC5 off.
> > > Fairly straight forward but assumes we don't need DC5 control.
> > > 
> > > C. Add multi-state support for the DC power well.
> > > Would be the nice way but perhaps a bit overkill. Good thing about this would be
> > > that we can incorporate DC9 control for BXT and unify more of the DC code.
> > > 
> > > So A, B or C?
> > 
> > After some spitballing with Imre we came up with the following power well layout,
> > which I think matches the documented seuqences in the spec the best:
> > 
> > display well:
> >     domains: 
> >         all
> >     enable:
> >         init display sequence
> >             enable pch reset handshake
> >             enable pw1 and miscio
> >             enable cdclk pll
> >             enable dbuf
> >         dc_state_en = up_to_dc6
> >     disable:
> >         dc_state_en = disable
> >         uninit display sequence
> >             disable dbuf
> >             disable cdclk pll
> >             disable pw1 and miscio
> > 
> > dc6 off well:
> >     domains:
> >         gmbus, dc5 off well domains
> >     enable:
> >         dc_state_en = up_to_dc5
> >     disable:
> >         dc_state_en = up_to_dc6
> > 
> > dc5 off well:
> >     domains:
> >         aux A, pw2 well domains
> >     enable:
> >         dc_state_en = disable
> >     disable:
> >         dc_state_en = up_to_dc5
> > 
> > pw2 well:
> >     domains:
> >         ddi B/C/D/E, aux B/C/D/E, vga, audio, pipe B/C, pfit B/C
> >     enable:
> >         enable pw2
> >     disable:
> >         disable pw2
> > 
> 
> Ok, that looks good, but what I'm trying to get at is that if we're going to
> have two seperate power wells for DC5 and DC6 how do we keep track of DC5
> enable/disable in DC6 enable/disable?
> 
> E.g.
> - DC6 enable (dc_state_en = up_to_dc5) 
> - DC5 enable (dc_state_en = disable)
> - DC6 disable (dc_state_en = up_to_dc6)
> 
> The last line would incorrectly set dc_state_en = up_to_dc6 when it should be
> dc_state_en = disable because DC5 is still enabled.
> 
> Currently we don't have the above case since DC5 is never enabled (dc_state_en =
> disable) but it's still nasty. And with Aux A on DC5 (as in the description
> above) we would hit this problem.

The above sequence couldn't happen since the "DC5 off well" always keeps
a reference on the "DC6 off well" (all the DC5 domains are in DC6's
domains too) and the two wells' order is fixed so that DC6 is first.

So a sequence like yours above, let's say enabling/disabling the Aux A
domain when nothing else is on would go:

- Display well enable (dc_state_en = up_to_dc6)
- DC6 off well enable (dc_state_en = up_to_dc5)
- DC5 off well enable (dc_state_en = disable)
- DC5 off well disable (dc_state_en = up_to_dc5)
- DC6 off well disable (dc_state_en = up_to_dc6)
- Display well disable (dc_state_en = N/A)

--Imre



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