ARM: dts: msm: Enable qcom,power-always-on for GPU SMMUs on GKI targets
The IOMMU page table management code is not optimal from a performance perspective in the GKI configuration, relative to the downstream implementation. When the GPU enters slumber, and requests the SMMU driver to unmap memory from the stage 1 page tables of the GPU. When unmapping memory, the SMMU driver must access the GPU SMMU's register space, so it must vote for power resources to access the TLB invalidation registers. When the GPU is in slumber, there aren't votes for the GPU SMMU's power resources, so the SMMU driver constantly ends up enabling/disabling the power resources, which takes a considerable amount of time. When paired with the suboptimal IOMMU page table management code, this leads to performance issues where the time taken to unmap memory is large. Thus, for all targets that support GKI, add the qcom,power-always-on property for the GPU SMMUs of these targets, to remove the latency incurred by having to enable/disable power resources in the GKI configuration. Change-Id: Id3237214e44c008871d01ec6652b08c4fb24e41c
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