linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM / sleep: Mechanism to avoid resuming runtime-suspended devices unnecessarily

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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2014 23:10:30 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM / sleep: Mechanism to avoid resuming runtime-suspended devices unnecessarily

On Friday, May 16, 2014 10:27:37 AM Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2014, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > 
> > Currently, some subsystems (e.g. PCI and the ACPI PM domain) have to
> > resume all runtime-suspended devices during system suspend, mostly
> > because those devices may need to be reprogrammed due to different
> > wakeup settings for system sleep and for runtime PM.
> > 
> > For some devices, though, it's OK to remain in runtime suspend 
> > throughout a complete system suspend/resume cycle (if the device was in
> > runtime suspend at the start of the cycle).  We would like to do this
> > whenever possible, to avoid the overhead of extra power-up and power-down
> > events.
> > 
> > However, problems may arise because the device's descendants may require
> > it to be at full power at various points during the cycle.  Therefore the
> > most straightforward way to do this safely is if the device and all its
> > descendants can remain runtime suspended until the complete stage of
> > system resume.
> > 
> > To this end, introduce a new device PM flag, power.direct_complete
> > and modify the PM core to use that flag as follows.
> > 
> > If the ->prepare() callback of a device returns a positive number,
> > the PM core will regard that as an indication that it may leave the
> > device runtime-suspended.  It will then check if the system power
> > transition in progress is a suspend (and not hibernation in particular)
> > and if the device is, indeed, runtime-suspended.  In that case, the PM
> > core will set the device's power.direct_complete flag.  Otherwise it
> > will clear power.direct_complete for the device and it also will later
> > clear it for the device's parent (if there's one).
> > 
> > Next, the PM core will not invoke the ->suspend() ->suspend_late(),
> > ->suspend_irq(), ->resume_irq(), ->resume_early(), or ->resume()
> > callbacks for all devices having power.direct_complete set.  It
> > will invoke their ->complete() callbacks, however, and those
> > callbacks are then responsible for resuming the devices as
> > appropriate, if necessary.  For example, in some cases they may
> > need to queue up runtime resume requests for the devices using
> > pm_request_resume().
> > 
> > Changelog partly based on an Alan Stern's description of the idea
> > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=139940466625569&w=2).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> 
> And likewise for the documentation patches.

Thanks a lot!

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