linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2] xhci: Prevent runtime pm from autosuspending during initialization

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Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:57:39 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	david.a.cohen@...ux.intel.com,
	Jianqiang Tang <jianqiang.tang@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] xhci: Prevent runtime pm from autosuspending
 during initialization

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:41:31PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Sarah Sharp
> <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:44:46PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> >> On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> >>
> >> > xHCI driver has its own pci probe function that will call usb_hcd_pci_probe
> >> > to register its usb-2 bus, and then continue to manually register the
> >> > usb-3 bus. usb_hcd_pci_probe does a pm_runtime_put_noidle at the end and
> >> > might thus trigger a runtime suspend before the usb-3 bus is ready.
> >> >
> >> > Prevent the runtime suspend by increasing the usage count in the
> >> > beginning of xhci_pci_probe, and decrease it once the usb-3 bus is
> >> > ready.
> >> >
> >> > xhci-platform driver is not using usb_hcd_pci_probe to set up
> >> > busses and should not need to have it's usage count increased during probe.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >  drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> >> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c
> >> > index 04f986d..ea7158b 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c
> >> > @@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ static int xhci_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
> >> >     struct usb_hcd *hcd;
> >> >
> >> >     driver = (struct hc_driver *)id->driver_data;
> >> > +
> >> > +   /* Prevent USB-2 roothub runtime suspend until USB-3 is initialized. */
> >> > +   pm_runtime_get_noresume(&dev->dev);
> >>
> >> Strictly speaking, this prevents the _controller_ from going into
> >> runtime suspend -- not the root hub.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Pardon the nitpick, but this is an acked-by if Mathias is submitting.

No, it's a "chain of signed-off-by's" and this is allowed just fine (it
used to be the default-thing before we came up with the "acked-by"
line...)
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