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authorJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-11 10:41:07 +0300
committerJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-13 08:17:18 +0300
commite09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 (patch)
treed10dc367189862e7ca5c592f033dc3726e1df4e3 /kernel/Documentation/power/pci.txt
parentf93b97fd65072de626c074dbe099a1fff05ce060 (diff)
These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources
are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page. During the rebasing, the following patch collided: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85). Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the source already. Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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@@ -979,20 +979,45 @@ every time right after the runtime_resume() callback has returned
(alternatively, the runtime_suspend() callback will have to check if the
device should really be suspended and return -EAGAIN if that is not the case).
-The runtime PM of PCI devices is disabled by default. It is also blocked by
-pci_pm_init() that runs the pm_runtime_forbid() helper function. If a PCI
-driver implements the runtime PM callbacks and intends to use the runtime PM
-framework provided by the PM core and the PCI subsystem, it should enable this
-feature by executing the pm_runtime_enable() helper function. However, the
-driver should not call the pm_runtime_allow() helper function unblocking
-the runtime PM of the device. Instead, it should allow user space or some
-platform-specific code to do that (user space can do it via sysfs), although
-once it has called pm_runtime_enable(), it must be prepared to handle the
+The runtime PM of PCI devices is enabled by default by the PCI core. PCI
+device drivers do not need to enable it and should not attempt to do so.
+However, it is blocked by pci_pm_init() that runs the pm_runtime_forbid()
+helper function. In addition to that, the runtime PM usage counter of
+each PCI device is incremented by local_pci_probe() before executing the
+probe callback provided by the device's driver.
+
+If a PCI driver implements the runtime PM callbacks and intends to use the
+runtime PM framework provided by the PM core and the PCI subsystem, it needs
+to decrement the device's runtime PM usage counter in its probe callback
+function. If it doesn't do that, the counter will always be different from
+zero for the device and it will never be runtime-suspended. The simplest
+way to do that is by calling pm_runtime_put_noidle(), but if the driver
+wants to schedule an autosuspend right away, for example, it may call
+pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() instead for this purpose. Generally, it
+just needs to call a function that decrements the devices usage counter
+from its probe routine to make runtime PM work for the device.
+
+It is important to remember that the driver's runtime_suspend() callback
+may be executed right after the usage counter has been decremented, because
+user space may already have cuased the pm_runtime_allow() helper function
+unblocking the runtime PM of the device to run via sysfs, so the driver must
+be prepared to cope with that.
+
+The driver itself should not call pm_runtime_allow(), though. Instead, it
+should let user space or some platform-specific code do that (user space can
+do it via sysfs as stated above), but it must be prepared to handle the
runtime PM of the device correctly as soon as pm_runtime_allow() is called
-(which may happen at any time). [It also is possible that user space causes
-pm_runtime_allow() to be called via sysfs before the driver is loaded, so in
-fact the driver has to be prepared to handle the runtime PM of the device as
-soon as it calls pm_runtime_enable().]
+(which may happen at any time, even before the driver is loaded).
+
+When the driver's remove callback runs, it has to balance the decrementation
+of the device's runtime PM usage counter at the probe time. For this reason,
+if it has decremented the counter in its probe callback, it must run
+pm_runtime_get_noresume() in its remove callback. [Since the core carries
+out a runtime resume of the device and bumps up the device's usage counter
+before running the driver's remove callback, the runtime PM of the device
+is effectively disabled for the duration of the remove execution and all
+runtime PM helper functions incrementing the device's usage counter are
+then effectively equivalent to pm_runtime_get_noresume().]
The runtime PM framework works by processing requests to suspend or resume
devices, or to check if they are idle (in which cases it is reasonable to