[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: Power down links before turning off display audio power

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:23:17 +0200,
Sriram Periyasamy wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:08:13AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:53:49 +0200,
> > Sriram Periyasamy wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 07:14:50PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:42:24 +0200,
> > > > Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 6/22/18 4:25 AM, Sriram Periyasamy wrote:
> > > > > > On certain platforms, Display HDMI HDA codec was not going to sleep state
> > > > > > after the use when links are powered down after turning off the display
> > > > > > power. As per the HW recommendation, links are powered down before turning
> > > > > > off the display power to ensure that the codec goes to sleep state.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The change looks ok, I am still not clear on display power
> > > > > management. snd_hdac_display_power is called both from hdac_hdmi.c and
> > > > > skl.c in the respective probe/suspend/resume routines, wondering if
> > > > > this is redundant or intentional.
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, it looks like that skl.c keeps the display power on by assuming
> > > > that it's turned off by the codec driver, but it doesn't happen
> > > > actually.  I also find it fishy there...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > snd_hdac_display_power is called intentionally to ensure that the codec is
> > > powered up before any communication is initiated from either skl.c or
> > > hdac_hdmi.c.
> > 
> > But who turns it down if the device is not used?
> 
> Powering down of codec is taken care in codec's suspend routine.

But you'll power up twice, no?  Once in skl_resume() (which is no
runtime resume but only for S3/S4) and once in codec resume.
I wonder who will turn down when you wake up from S3.  The runtime
suspend doesn't call snd_hdac_display_power() in skl.c.

> > It'd be helpful if you can illustrate the PM scheme in a big picture.
> >
> 
> We will add separate patch for providing PM sequence.

Well, no patch is needed but rather an explanation is...


thanks,

Takashi