Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 8)

[Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Alan Stern<stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
>> > I've now jumped from v5 to v8 and I feel that the code is getting
>> > cleaner and cleaner. Very nice.
>>
>> That's mostly thanks to Alan.
>
> I haven't had time yet to look through the new code.  Things have been
> very busy.
>
>> > Issue 1:
>> > ------------
>> > Device drivers which do not perform any hardware access in probe()
>> > work fine. During software setup in probe() the runtime pm code is
>> > initialized with the following:
>> >
>> > +   pm_suspend_ignore_children(&dev->dev, true);
>> > +   pm_runtime_set_suspended(&dev->dev);
>> > +   pm_runtime_enable(&dev->dev);
>> >
>> > Before accessing hardware I perform:
>> > +   pm_runtime_resume(pd->dev);
>> >
>> > When done with the hardware I do:
>> > +   pm_runtime_suspend(pd->dev);
>> >
>> > Not so complicated. Am I supposed to initialize something else as well?
>
> No, that's all you need.

Ok, thank you!

>> > All good with the code above, but there seem to be some issue with how
>> > usage_count is counted up and down and when runtime_disabled is set:
>> >
>> > 1. pm_runtime_init(): usage_count = 1, runtime_disabled = true
>> > 2. driver_probe_device(): pm_runtime_get_sync()
>> > 3. pm_runtime_get_sync(): usage_count = 2
>> > 4. device driver probe(): pm_runtime_enable()
>> > 5. pm_runtime_enable(): usage_count = 1
>> > 6. driver_probe_device(): pm_runtime_put()
>> > 7. pm_runtime_put(): usage_count = 0
>> >
>> > I expect runtime_disabled = false in 7.
>
> Wasn't it?  It should have been set to false in step 4 and remained
> that way.

I may misunderstand, but in v8 won't the pm_runtime_enable() function
do a atomic_dec_test() where the counter value will go from 2 to 1 in
the case above? This would mean that atomic_dec_test() returns false
so runtime_disabled is never modified.

Thanks for your feedback,

/ magnus