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diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst index 18ae21bf7f92..d6bf84f061f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst @@ -378,7 +378,11 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h: `int pm_runtime_get_sync(struct device *dev);` - increment the device's usage counter, run pm_runtime_resume(dev) and - return its result + return its result; + note that it does not drop the device's usage counter on errors, so + consider using pm_runtime_resume_and_get() instead of it, especially + if its return value is checked by the caller, as this is likely to + result in cleaner code. `int pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(struct device *dev);` - return -EINVAL if 'power.disable_depth' is nonzero; otherwise, if the @@ -827,6 +831,15 @@ or driver about runtime power changes. Instead, the driver for the device's parent must take responsibility for telling the device's driver when the parent's power state changes. +Note that, in some cases it may not be desirable for subsystems/drivers to call +pm_runtime_no_callbacks() for their devices. This could be because a subset of +the runtime PM callbacks needs to be implemented, a platform dependent PM +domain could get attached to the device or that the device is power managed +through a supplier device link. For these reasons and to avoid boilerplate code +in subsystems/drivers, the PM core allows runtime PM callbacks to be +unassigned. More precisely, if a callback pointer is NULL, the PM core will act +as though there was a callback and it returned 0. + 9. Autosuspend, or automatically-delayed suspends ================================================= |