The recent changes to genpd makes a genpd OF provider that is powered-on at
initialization to stay powered-on, until the ->sync_state() callback is
invoked for it.

This may not happen at all, if we wait for a consumer device to be probed,
leading to wasting energy. There are ways to enforce the ->sync_state()
callback to be invoked, through sysfs or via the probe-defer-timeout, but
none of them in its current form are a good fit for rcar-gen4-sysc PM
domains.

Let's therefore opt-out from this behaviour of genpd for now, by using the
GENPD_FLAG_NO_STAY_ON.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701114733.636510-1-ulf.hansson@linaro.org/
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Fixes: 0e789b491ba0 ("pmdomain: core: Leave powered-on genpds on until sync_state")
Fixes: 13a4b7fb6260 ("pmdomain: core: Leave powered-on genpds on until late_initcall_sync")
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/pmdomain/renesas/rcar-gen4-sysc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pmdomain/renesas/rcar-gen4-sysc.c b/drivers/pmdomain/renesas/rcar-gen4-sysc.c
index 5aa7fa1df8fe..7434bf42d215 100644
--- a/drivers/pmdomain/renesas/rcar-gen4-sysc.c
+++ b/drivers/pmdomain/renesas/rcar-gen4-sysc.c
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ static int __init rcar_gen4_sysc_pd_setup(struct rcar_gen4_sysc_pd *pd)
 		genpd->detach_dev = cpg_mssr_detach_dev;
 	}
 
+	genpd->flags |= GENPD_FLAG_NO_STAY_ON;
 	genpd->power_off = rcar_gen4_sysc_pd_power_off;
 	genpd->power_on = rcar_gen4_sysc_pd_power_on;
 
-- 
2.43.0

On Tue, 9 Sept 2025 at 13:11, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
> The recent changes to genpd makes a genpd OF provider that is powered-on at
> initialization to stay powered-on, until the ->sync_state() callback is
> invoked for it.
>
> This may not happen at all, if we wait for a consumer device to be probed,
> leading to wasting energy. There are ways to enforce the ->sync_state()
> callback to be invoked, through sysfs or via the probe-defer-timeout, but
> none of them in its current form are a good fit for rcar-gen4-sysc PM
> domains.
>
> Let's therefore opt-out from this behaviour of genpd for now, by using the
> GENPD_FLAG_NO_STAY_ON.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701114733.636510-1-ulf.hansson@linaro.org/
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Fixes: 0e789b491ba0 ("pmdomain: core: Leave powered-on genpds on until sync_state")
> Fixes: 13a4b7fb6260 ("pmdomain: core: Leave powered-on genpds on until late_initcall_sync")
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
on R-Car V4M (gray hawk single).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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