On Thursday, May 31, 2018 12:59:54 PM CEST Ulf Hansson wrote:
> Changes in v3:
>       - Drop patch 1->4 as they have already been applied.
>       - Collected tags, for tests and reviews.
>       - Minor update to function descriptions in patch 4 (earlier 8) and 5
>       (earlier9).
>       - Note, because of the minor changes, no history is provided per patch.
> 
> Changes in v2:
>       - Addressed comments from Geert around DT doc.
>       - Addressed comments from Jon around clarification of how to use this
>       and changes to returned error codes.
>       - Fixed build error in case CONFIG_PM was unset.
> 
> There are devices that are partitioned across multiple PM domains. Currently
> these can't be supported well by the available PM infrastructures we have in
> the kernel. This series is an attempt to address this.
> 
> One existing case where devices are partitioned across multiple PM domains, is
> the Nvida Tegra 124/210 X-USB subsystem. A while ago Jon Hunter (Nvidia) sent 
> a
> series, trying to address these issues, however this is a new approach, while
> it re-uses the same concepts from DT point of view.
> 
> The Tegra 124/210 X-USB subsystem contains of a host controller and a device
> controller. Each controller have its own independent PM domain, but are being
> partitioned across another shared PM domain for the USB super-speed logic.
> 
> Currently to make the drivers work, either the related PM domains needs to 
> stay
> powered on always or the PM domain topology needs to be in-correctly modelled
> through sub-domains. In both cases PM domains may be powered on while they
> don't need to be, so in the end this means - wasting power -.
> 
> As stated above, this series intends to address these problem from a PM
> infrastructure point of view. More details are available in each changelog.
> 
> Kind regards
> Ulf Hansson
> 
> Ulf Hansson (5):
>   PM / Domains: dt: Allow power-domain property to be a list of
>     specifiers
>   PM / Domains: Don't attach devices in genpd with multi PM domains
>   PM / Domains: Split genpd_dev_pm_attach()
>   PM / Domains: Add support for multi PM domains per device to genpd
>   PM / Domains: Add dev_pm_domain_attach_by_id() to manage multi PM
>     domains
> 
>  .../bindings/power/power_domain.txt           |  19 ++-
>  drivers/base/power/common.c                   |  43 +++++-
>  drivers/base/power/domain.c                   | 134 +++++++++++++++---
>  include/linux/pm_domain.h                     |  15 ++
>  4 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> 

Applied, thanks!


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