Re: [PATCH] clocksource: sh_tmu: Runtime PM support

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Tue May 31 2011 - 00:08:54 EST


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:30:06PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:40:26PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > From: Magnus Damm <damm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add Runtime PM support to the TMU driver.
> >
[snip]
> >
> > + /* wake up device and enable clock */
> > + pm_runtime_get_sync(&p->pdev->dev);
> > ret = clk_enable(p->clk);
> > if (ret) {
> > dev_err(&p->pdev->dev, "cannot enable clock\n");
> > + pm_runtime_put_sync(&p->pdev->dev);
> > return ret;
> > }
> >
> At this point the spinlock hasn't been initialized yet, so any of the
> pm_runtime calls are pretty much unsafe. We could manually test
> pm_runtime_enabled() before any of the get/put_sync() calls, but that gets to
> be a bit ugly.

Note that I will be reverting these patches for -rc2 if no progress is
made here. This is a fundamental ordering issue with regards to locking,
and is completely bogus for every SMP platform we have.
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