linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 1/5] PM / Runtime: Allow accessing irq_safe if no PM

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Date:	Fri, 7 Nov 2014 09:50:58 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
	<linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/5] PM / Runtime: Allow accessing irq_safe if no
 PM_RUNTIME

On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> > Well, that is a good reason to introduce a wrapper around power.irq_safe in my
> > view.
> > 
> > And define the wrapper so that it always returns false for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
> > unset.
> > 
> > This way not only you wouldn't need to move the flag from under the #ifdef,
> > but also you would make the compiler skip the relevant pieces of code
> > entiretly for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unset.
> 
> Few days ago I would be happy with your opinion :), but know I think
> this is better solution than wrapper. Consider case:
> 1. PM_RUNTIME unset.
> 2. System suspends.
> 3. The pl330 in its suspend callback calls force_runtime_suspend which
> leads us to amba/bus.
> 4. The amba/bus.c in runtime suspend checks for irq_safe (it is FALSE),
> so it disables and unprepares the clock.
> 5. The pl330 in probe requested irq_safe so it assumes amba/bus will
> only disable the clock. So the pl330 unprepares the clock. Again.

To me, this sounds like a good reason to avoid using 
force_runtime_suspend().  In fact, it sounds like a good reason to 
avoid relying on the runtime PM mechanism to handle non-runtime-PM 
things (like a system suspend callback).  If CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME isn't 
enabled then the runtime PM stack simply should not be used.

Alan Stern

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