Hi Dan,

Thanks for your feedback!

I've tested these patches with our platform, but have not tested with any upstream platforms. I added tests for the OS-initiated mode code path in TF-A-Tests [1] that we can run against upstream platforms to verify. I'm not sure how I can get a hold of an upstream platform board; it'd be much appreciated if perhaps maintainers of upstream platforms could help run the tests?

In theory, any platform that supports CPU_SUSPEND would be able to support both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, since the power state coordination happens either in the PSCI library implementation or in an HLOS.

Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/tf-a-tests/+/17684

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 9:43 AM Okash Khawaja okash@google.com wrote:

Hi Dan,

The idea with OSI mode is that HLOS will have more awareness about power sequences and hence will be able to optimise power usage better (e.g. using heuristics) if it had more control. This means having HLOS which contains right modules for a specific platform and specific use case, if we want to do a power/perf comparison between OSI and plat-coordinated modes.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 5:08 PM Dan Handley via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org wrote:

...

Hi Wing

Thanks for your contribution. Are there any upstream platforms that

these patches have been tested with? If so, it would be good to have visibility of the sw stack under test. Ideally, there would be at least 1 platform that supported both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, so that a fair power/performance comparison can be done.

...

Regards

Dan.

From: Wing Li via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org Sent: 10 November 2022 05:53 To: tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org Subject: [TF-A] PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi,

The PSCI specification defines two different power state coordination

modes for CPU_SUSPEND that can be used to put a core or a group of cores into a low-power state. These modes are the platform-coordinated mode (default) and the OS-initiated mode (optional). OS-initiated mode is currently not supported by TF-A, while both modes are supported by the Linux Kernel.

...

Requesting reviews for the patches [1] adding support for OS-initiated

mode in TF-A and the corresponding tests in TF-A-Tests. Any feedback and comments are much appreciated.

...

Thanks in advance!

Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:psci-osi

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Hi,

Usually, platforms have multiple power states behind the CPU_SUSPEND PSCI call. Did you consider these for your design? If yes, it would be interesting to see the prediction accuracy of the OSI model versus the PI model. Also do you see any impact on the min_latency values with the OSI model?

By, the way do you have a top level design for the proposal?

-Varun

From: Dan Handley via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org Sent: Monday, 14 November 2022 5:50 PM To: Wing Li wingers@google.com; Okash Khawaja okash@google.com Cc: tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org Subject: [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

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Hi Wing/Okash

I know what OSI mode is supposed to deliver in theory - I just haven't seen any compelling evidence of its benefit in practice. If you can share any evidence (even anecdotal) that would be great, although it's not essential for these patches to proceed.

However, we are going to need some upstream platform(s) to exercise the new functionality. This can be a model platform, e.g. the Base FVP, not necessarily real hw. Are you able to at least get this running locally on Base FVP? I'm sure others can help with adding a config to the OpenCI.

Regards

Dan.

From: Wing Li <wingers@google.commailto:wingers@google.com> Sent: 11 November 2022 18:34 To: Okash Khawaja <okash@google.commailto:okash@google.com> Cc: Dan Handley <Dan.Handley@arm.commailto:Dan.Handley@arm.com>; tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org Subject: Re: [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your feedback!

I've tested these patches with our platform, but have not tested with any upstream platforms. I added tests for the OS-initiated mode code path in TF-A-Tests [1] that we can run against upstream platforms to verify. I'm not sure how I can get a hold of an upstream platform board; it'd be much appreciated if perhaps maintainers of upstream platforms could help run the tests?

In theory, any platform that supports CPU_SUSPEND would be able to support both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, since the power state coordination happens either in the PSCI library implementation or in an HLOS.

Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/tf-a-tests/+/17684https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Freview.trustedfirmware.org%2Fc%2FTF-A%2Ftf-a-tests%2F%2B%2F17684&data=05%7C01%7Cvwadekar%40nvidia.com%7Ca3c4a05b8e3b48ae510708dac668c75e%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C638040450576300615%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8pNtAwoHRWF0NAy8k8nrRLEroUX%2Byds6U2WHGZVRjdc%3D&reserved=0

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 9:43 AM Okash Khawaja <okash@google.commailto:okash@google.com> wrote: Hi Dan,

The idea with OSI mode is that HLOS will have more awareness about power sequences and hence will be able to optimise power usage better (e.g. using heuristics) if it had more control. This means having HLOS which contains right modules for a specific platform and specific use case, if we want to do a power/perf comparison between OSI and plat-coordinated modes.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 5:08 PM Dan Handley via TF-A <tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> wrote:

Hi Wing

Thanks for your contribution. Are there any upstream platforms that these patches have been tested with? If so, it would be good to have visibility of the sw stack under test. Ideally, there would be at least 1 platform that supported both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, so that a fair power/performance comparison can be done.

Regards

Dan.

From: Wing Li via TF-A <tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> Sent: 10 November 2022 05:53 To: tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org Subject: [TF-A] PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi,

The PSCI specification defines two different power state coordination modes for CPU_SUSPEND that can be used to put a core or a group of cores into a low-power state. These modes are the platform-coordinated mode (default) and the OS-initiated mode (optional). OS-initiated mode is currently not supported by TF-A, while both modes are supported by the Linux Kernel.

Requesting reviews for the patches [1] adding support for OS-initiated mode in TF-A and the corresponding tests in TF-A-Tests. Any feedback and comments are much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:psci-osihttps://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Freview.trustedfirmware.org%2Fq%2Ftopic%3Apsci-osi&data=05%7C01%7Cvwadekar%40nvidia.com%7Ca3c4a05b8e3b48ae510708dac668c75e%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C638040450576300615%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ASA1YsAMpJZNal3bjJKX%2F7SwEQzrwCm2tyqgbzcEfDU%3D&reserved=0

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 2:51 AM Wing Li via TF-A < tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> wrote:

Hi Dan and Varun,

Our motivation for adding OS-initiated mode is because it's required by the Linux PSCI CPUIdle driver to enable support for suspend-to-idle [1].

That is not correct. If anything is broken or not working, it needs to be fixed. Adding platform support for OSI just to support suspend-to-idle is a completely wrong approach. Can you let me know what is not working or how is it broken ?

+Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson@linaro.org and +Jens Wiklander jens.wiklander@linaro.org, who are able to help with testing.

Hi Sudeep and Jacky,

I wanted to clarify our use case for suspend-to-idle. For mobile and other battery-powered devices, the key capability we need isn't just the ability to enter s2idle, but also reaching equivalent power savings in s2idle compared to suspend-to-RAM. Essentially, if all CPU cores are idle, we want to be able to drop into the deepest low-power state that is just as energy-efficient as suspend-to-RAM, but without hot-unplugging and plugging the CPUs, which means they need to be able to resume in their idle loops. To achieve this, we're planning to leverage the hierarchical power domain representation in the device tree [1], which is currently limited to be used in OS-initiated mode by the PSCI CPUIdle driver [2].

Thanks! Wing

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/devicetree/bind... [2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci....

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 2:50 AM Jacky Bai ping.bai@nxp.com wrote:

suspend-to-idle normally means linux ‘freeze’ mode. For this mode, nothing related to PSCI OSI support.

BR Jacky Bai

*From:* Sudeep Holla via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org *Sent:* 2022年11月21日 18:38 *To:* Wing Li wingers@google.com *Cc:* Dan Handley Dan.Handley@arm.com; Okash Khawaja okash@google.com; tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org; Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com *Subject:* [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 2:51 AM Wing Li via TF-A < tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> wrote:

Hi Dan and Varun,

Our motivation for adding OS-initiated mode is because it's required by the Linux PSCI CPUIdle driver to enable support for suspend-to-idle [1].

That is not correct. If anything is broken or not working, it needs to be fixed. Adding platform support for

OSI just to support suspend-to-idle is a completely wrong approach. Can you let me know what is not

working or how is it broken ?

+ Vincent, Daniel

On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 21:12, Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com wrote:

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:57:30AM -0800, Wing Li wrote:

...

+Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson@linaro.org and +Jens Wiklander jens.wiklander@linaro.org, who are able to help with testing.

Hi Sudeep and Jacky,

I wanted to clarify our use case for suspend-to-idle. For mobile and other battery-powered devices, the key capability we need isn't just the ability to enter s2idle, but also reaching equivalent power savings in s2idle compared to suspend-to-RAM. Essentially, if all CPU cores are idle, we want to be able to drop into the deepest low-power state that is just as energy-efficient as suspend-to-RAM, but without hot-unplugging and plugging the CPUs, which means they need to be able to resume in their idle loops. To achieve this, we're planning to leverage the hierarchical power domain representation in the device tree [1], which is currently limited to be used in OS-initiated mode by the PSCI CPUIdle driver [2].

OK, so your choice is OSI and it has nothing to do with S2I not working with PC mode cpuidle. The statement that Linux S2I requires OSI mode of cpuidle was misleading and main trigger for most of these discussions.

Right, I completely agree with the above. S2I isn't limited to work with the OSI-mode. In fact, I believe we should have platforms that support only the PC mode, which already support S2I.

That said, I strongly support the implementation of the OSI-mode in TF-A. Besides Google, there should be at least two more ARM vendors that I expect to be interested in this. Let me reach out to them (offlist), to see if they are able to help with some platform deployments and tests. I personally can try to help by running tests on the old Hikey platform, for example.

When it comes to running performance/energy comparisons, that would certainly be nice, as we have discussed earlier too. If we manage to land the OSI support in the TF-A, I think we should consider that as the first step to enable us to run these kinds of tests.

Note that, to really make some valid comparisons, I don't think Hikey is going to be a good example, but I may be wrong. Instead, I think we need a platform that takes full benefit of what OSI really provides, which means using the information at the Linux (RichOS) side to make better decisions in the idlepath. So far, there are only Qcom platforms that try to implement this in the upstream Linux kernel (I can provide more pointers to this, if anyone wants - just tell me).

Kind regards Uffe

Thanks, Wing, for the patches and Tech forum [1]

Considering that your patches are well guarded under build macro we think it's a good capability to have in TF-A. Also, you have ported it to couple of platforms including fvp(along with CI) which will give us more confidence to review these patches.

To compare against platform-initiated mode, it would be great if you can post some metric and explanations similar to what was presented in tech forum as part of patch set.

[1] https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/ : PSCI OS Initiated Mode

Thanks Manish ________________________________ From: Wing Li via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org Sent: 21 November 2022 02:51 To: Varun Wadekar vwadekar@nvidia.com Cc: Dan Handley Dan.Handley@arm.com; Okash Khawaja okash@google.com; tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org Subject: [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi Dan and Varun,

Our motivation for adding OS-initiated mode is because it's required by the Linux PSCI CPUIdle driver to enable support for suspend-to-idle [1].

I tested the topic [2] on the FVP_Base_RevC-2xAEMvA platform with and without setting ARM_RECOM_STATE_ID_ENC, and am happy to report all the existing and new tests passed in both cases!

I uploaded a design proposal in a new CL [3]. The design allows platforms to support any number of power states. Regarding impact on the min_latency values, our team hasn't yet begun integrating our platform with Linux or any HLOS, and don't have any data to provide at this moment.

Thanks! Wing

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.... [2] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:psci-osi [3] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/17896

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 8:20 AM Varun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.commailto:vwadekar@nvidia.com> wrote:

Hi,

Usually, platforms have multiple power states behind the CPU_SUSPEND PSCI call. Did you consider these for your design? If yes, it would be interesting to see the prediction accuracy of the OSI model versus the PI model. Also do you see any impact on the min_latency values with the OSI model?

By, the way do you have a top level design for the proposal?

-Varun

From: Dan Handley via TF-A <tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> Sent: Monday, 14 November 2022 5:50 PM To: Wing Li <wingers@google.commailto:wingers@google.com>; Okash Khawaja <okash@google.commailto:okash@google.com> Cc: tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org Subject: [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

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Hi Wing/Okash

I know what OSI mode is supposed to deliver in theory – I just haven’t seen any compelling evidence of its benefit in practice. If you can share any evidence (even anecdotal) that would be great, although it’s not essential for these patches to proceed.

However, we are going to need some upstream platform(s) to exercise the new functionality. This can be a model platform, e.g. the Base FVP, not necessarily real hw. Are you able to at least get this running locally on Base FVP? I’m sure others can help with adding a config to the OpenCI.

Regards

Dan.

From: Wing Li <wingers@google.commailto:wingers@google.com> Sent: 11 November 2022 18:34 To: Okash Khawaja <okash@google.commailto:okash@google.com> Cc: Dan Handley <Dan.Handley@arm.commailto:Dan.Handley@arm.com>; tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org Subject: Re: [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your feedback!

I've tested these patches with our platform, but have not tested with any upstream platforms. I added tests for the OS-initiated mode code path in TF-A-Tests [1] that we can run against upstream platforms to verify. I'm not sure how I can get a hold of an upstream platform board; it'd be much appreciated if perhaps maintainers of upstream platforms could help run the tests?

In theory, any platform that supports CPU_SUSPEND would be able to support both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, since the power state coordination happens either in the PSCI library implementation or in an HLOS.

Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/tf-a-tests/+/17684https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Freview.trustedfirmware.org%2Fc%2FTF-A%2Ftf-a-tests%2F%2B%2F17684&data=05%7C01%7Cvwadekar%40nvidia.com%7Ca3c4a05b8e3b48ae510708dac668c75e%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C638040450576300615%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8pNtAwoHRWF0NAy8k8nrRLEroUX%2Byds6U2WHGZVRjdc%3D&reserved=0

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 9:43 AM Okash Khawaja <okash@google.commailto:okash@google.com> wrote:

Hi Dan,

The idea with OSI mode is that HLOS will have more awareness about power sequences and hence will be able to optimise power usage better (e.g. using heuristics) if it had more control. This means having HLOS which contains right modules for a specific platform and specific use case, if we want to do a power/perf comparison between OSI and plat-coordinated modes.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 5:08 PM Dan Handley via TF-A <tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> wrote:

Hi Wing

Thanks for your contribution. Are there any upstream platforms that these patches have been tested with? If so, it would be good to have visibility of the sw stack under test. Ideally, there would be at least 1 platform that supported both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, so that a fair power/performance comparison can be done.

Regards

Dan.

From: Wing Li via TF-A <tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> Sent: 10 November 2022 05:53 To: tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.orgmailto:tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org Subject: [TF-A] PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi,

The PSCI specification defines two different power state coordination modes for CPU_SUSPEND that can be used to put a core or a group of cores into a low-power state. These modes are the platform-coordinated mode (default) and the OS-initiated mode (optional). OS-initiated mode is currently not supported by TF-A, while both modes are supported by the Linux Kernel.

Requesting reviews for the patches [1] adding support for OS-initiated mode in TF-A and the corresponding tests in TF-A-Tests. Any feedback and comments are much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:psci-osihttps://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Freview.trustedfirmware.org%2Fq%2Ftopic%3Apsci-osi&data=05%7C01%7Cvwadekar%40nvidia.com%7Ca3c4a05b8e3b48ae510708dac668c75e%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C638040450576300615%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ASA1YsAMpJZNal3bjJKX%2F7SwEQzrwCm2tyqgbzcEfDU%3D&reserved=0

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Hi all,

Thank you for your reviews and feedback on the OSI mode patches. As a follow up, are there any remaining blockers we need to resolve before we can land the patches?

Best regards, Wing

On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 5:43 PM Wing Li wingers@google.com wrote:

Hi Manish,

Thanks for your feedback! I have updated the design proposal [1] with the details that were presented at the Tech Forum.

Thanks, Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/17896

On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 2:01 AM Manish Pandey2 Manish.Pandey2@arm.com wrote:

...

Thanks, Wing, for the patches and Tech forum [1]

Considering that your patches are well guarded under build macro we think it's a good capability to have in TF-A. Also, you have ported it to couple of platforms including fvp(along with CI) which will give us more confidence to review these patches.

To compare against platform-initiated mode, it would be great if you can post some metric and explanations similar to what was presented in tech forum as part of patch set.

[1] https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/ : PSCI OS Initiated Mode

Thanks Manish

---

*From:* Wing Li via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org *Sent:* 21 November 2022 02:51 *To:* Varun Wadekar vwadekar@nvidia.com *Cc:* Dan Handley Dan.Handley@arm.com; Okash Khawaja okash@google.com; tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org < tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org> *Subject:* [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi Dan and Varun,

Our motivation for adding OS-initiated mode is because it's required by the Linux PSCI CPUIdle driver to enable support for suspend-to-idle [1].

I tested the topic [2] on the FVP_Base_RevC-2xAEMvA platform with and without setting ARM_RECOM_STATE_ID_ENC, and am happy to report all the existing and new tests passed in both cases!

I uploaded a design proposal in a new CL [3]. The design allows platforms to support any number of power states. Regarding impact on the min_latency values, our team hasn't yet begun integrating our platform with Linux or any HLOS, and don't have any data to provide at this moment.

Thanks! Wing

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.... [2] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:psci-osi [3] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/17896

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 8:20 AM Varun Wadekar vwadekar@nvidia.com wrote:

Hi,

Usually, platforms have multiple power states behind the CPU_SUSPEND PSCI call. Did you consider these for your design? If yes, it would be interesting to see the prediction accuracy of the OSI model versus the PI model. Also do you see any impact on the min_latency values with the OSI model?

By, the way do you have a top level design for the proposal?

-Varun

*From:* Dan Handley via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org *Sent:* Monday, 14 November 2022 5:50 PM *To:* Wing Li wingers@google.com; Okash Khawaja okash@google.com *Cc:* tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org *Subject:* [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

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Hi Wing/Okash

I know what OSI mode is supposed to deliver in theory – I just haven’t seen any compelling evidence of its benefit in practice. If you can share any evidence (even anecdotal) that would be great, although it’s not essential for these patches to proceed.

However, we are going to need some upstream platform(s) to exercise the new functionality. This can be a model platform, e.g. the Base FVP, not necessarily real hw. Are you able to at least get this running locally on Base FVP? I’m sure others can help with adding a config to the OpenCI.

Regards

Dan.

*From:* Wing Li wingers@google.com *Sent:* 11 November 2022 18:34 *To:* Okash Khawaja okash@google.com *Cc:* Dan Handley Dan.Handley@arm.com; tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org; tf-a-tests@lists.trustedfirmware.org *Subject:* Re: [TF-A] Re: PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your feedback!

I've tested these patches with our platform, but have not tested with any upstream platforms. I added tests for the OS-initiated mode code path in TF-A-Tests [1] that we can run against upstream platforms to verify. I'm not sure how I can get a hold of an upstream platform board; it'd be much appreciated if perhaps maintainers of upstream platforms could help run the tests?

In theory, any platform that supports CPU_SUSPEND would be able to support both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, since the power state coordination happens either in the PSCI library implementation or in an HLOS.

Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/tf-a-tests/+/17684 https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Freview.trustedfirmware.org%2Fc%2FTF-A%2Ftf-a-tests%2F%2B%2F17684&data=05%7C01%7Cvwadekar%40nvidia.com%7Ca3c4a05b8e3b48ae510708dac668c75e%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C638040450576300615%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8pNtAwoHRWF0NAy8k8nrRLEroUX%2Byds6U2WHGZVRjdc%3D&reserved=0

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 9:43 AM Okash Khawaja okash@google.com wrote:

Hi Dan,

The idea with OSI mode is that HLOS will have more awareness about power sequences and hence will be able to optimise power usage better (e.g. using heuristics) if it had more control. This means having HLOS which contains right modules for a specific platform and specific use case, if we want to do a power/perf comparison between OSI and plat-coordinated modes.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 5:08 PM Dan Handley via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org wrote:

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Hi Wing

Thanks for your contribution. Are there any upstream platforms that

these patches have been tested with? If so, it would be good to have visibility of the sw stack under test. Ideally, there would be at least 1 platform that supported both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, so that a fair power/performance comparison can be done.

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Regards

Dan.

From: Wing Li via TF-A tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org Sent: 10 November 2022 05:53 To: tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org;

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Subject: [TF-A] PSCI OS-initiated mode

Hi,

The PSCI specification defines two different power state coordination

modes for CPU_SUSPEND that can be used to put a core or a group of cores into a low-power state. These modes are the platform-coordinated mode (default) and the OS-initiated mode (optional). OS-initiated mode is currently not supported by TF-A, while both modes are supported by the Linux Kernel.

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Requesting reviews for the patches [1] adding support for OS-initiated

mode in TF-A and the corresponding tests in TF-A-Tests. Any feedback and comments are much appreciated.

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Thanks in advance!

Wing

[1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:psci-osi

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On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 6:34 PM Wing Li via TF-A < tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> wrote:

In theory, any platform that supports CPU_SUSPEND would be able to support both platform-coordinated mode and OS-initiated mode, since the power state coordination happens either in the PSCI library implementation or in an HLOS.

Just to highlight, it is just the coordination that happens in PSCI/EL3 or HLOS. It just adds extra implementation in the kernel and hence the execution path and doesn't simplify anything in the firmware. Firmware complexity will be the same for both PC and OSI and he needs to deal with all the races even if HLOS takes care of last man in and first man out *in its view* .