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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2017-12-10 01:00:45 +0100
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2018-01-03 00:29:55 +0100
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PM / core: Direct DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND optimization
Make the PM core avoid invoking the "late" and "noirq" system-wide suspend (or analogous) callbacks provided by device drivers directly for devices with DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND set that are in runtime suspend during the "late" and "noirq" phases of system-wide suspend (or analogous) transitions. That is only done for devices without any middle-layer "late" and "noirq" suspend callbacks (to avoid confusing the middle layer if there is one). The underlying observation is that runtime PM is disabled for devices during the "late" and "noirq" system-wide suspend phases, so if they remain in runtime suspend from the "late" phase forward, it doesn't make sense to invoke the "late" and "noirq" callbacks provided by the drivers for them (arguably, the device is already suspended and in the right state). Thus, if the remaining driver suspend callbacks are to be invoked directly by the core, they can be skipped. This change really makes it possible for, say, platform device drivers to re-use runtime PM suspend and resume callbacks by pointing ->suspend_late and ->resume_early, respectively (and possibly the analogous hibernation-related callback pointers too), to them without adding any extra "is the device already suspended?" type of checks to the callback routines, as long as they will be invoked directly by the core. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst
index b0fe63c91f8d..07026811dcae 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst
@@ -777,14 +777,16 @@ The driver can indicate that by setting ``DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND`` in
runtime suspend at the beginning of the ``suspend_late`` phase of system-wide
suspend (or in the ``poweroff_late`` phase of hibernation), when runtime PM
has been disabled for it, under the assumption that its state should not change
-after that point until the system-wide transition is over. If that happens, the
-driver's system-wide resume callbacks, if present, may still be invoked during
-the subsequent system-wide resume transition and the device's runtime power
-management status may be set to "active" before enabling runtime PM for it,
-so the driver must be prepared to cope with the invocation of its system-wide
-resume callbacks back-to-back with its ``->runtime_suspend`` one (without the
-intervening ``->runtime_resume`` and so on) and the final state of the device
-must reflect the "active" status for runtime PM in that case.
+after that point until the system-wide transition is over (the PM core itself
+does that for devices whose "noirq", "late" and "early" system-wide PM callbacks
+are executed directly by it). If that happens, the driver's system-wide resume
+callbacks, if present, may still be invoked during the subsequent system-wide
+resume transition and the device's runtime power management status may be set
+to "active" before enabling runtime PM for it, so the driver must be prepared to
+cope with the invocation of its system-wide resume callbacks back-to-back with
+its ``->runtime_suspend`` one (without the intervening ``->runtime_resume`` and
+so on) and the final state of the device must reflect the "active" runtime PM
+status in that case.
During system-wide resume from a sleep state it's easiest to put devices into
the full-power state, as explained in :file:`Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt`.