Re: [PATCH] PM / core: Propagate dev->power.wakeup_path when no callbacks

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed May 01 2019 - 06:21:57 EST


On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 11:55:16 AM CEST Ulf Hansson wrote:
> The dev->power.direct_complete flag may become set in device_prepare() in
> case the device don't have any PM callbacks (dev->power.no_pm_callbacks is
> set). This leads to a broken behaviour, when there is child having wakeup
> enabled and relies on its parent to be used in the wakeup path.
>
> More precisely, when the direct complete path becomes selected for the
> child in __device_suspend(), the propagation of the dev->power.wakeup_path
> becomes skipped as well.
>
> Let's address this problem, by checking if the device is a part the wakeup
> path or has wakeup enabled, then prevent the direct complete path from
> being used.
>
> Reported-by: Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> More background:
>
> This problem was reported by Loic Pallardy, offlist, while he was working
> on enabling wakeup for a tty serial console driver.
>
> When I looked more closely, I noticed that uart_suspend_port() calls
> device_may_wakeup() for the tty child devices, and then also the used serial
> driver check its device (parent) for device_may_wakeup(). To me this looks like
> workarounds to fix a behaviour that really should be dealt with from the PM
> core, no matter of whether the child have PM callbacks assigned or not.
>
> In other words, it seems like the serial driver(s) should be checking the
> wakeup_path flag for the parent, solely, instead.
>
> I haven't digested further behaviours for other subsystem, but recently
> reviewed a patch for a gpio driver [1], that seems to be suffering from the
> similar problems.
>
> Kind regards
> Ulf Hansson
>
> [1]
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/4/1283
>
> ---
> drivers/base/power/main.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/main.c b/drivers/base/power/main.c
> index 41eba82ee7b9..f9cfdeee8288 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/main.c
> @@ -1747,6 +1747,10 @@ static int __device_suspend(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state, bool async)
> if (dev->power.syscore)
> goto Complete;
>
> + /* Avoid direct_complete, to let wakeup_path being propagated. */
> + if (device_may_wakeup(dev) || dev->power.wakeup_path)
> + dev->power.direct_complete = false;
> +
> if (dev->power.direct_complete) {
> if (pm_runtime_status_suspended(dev)) {
> pm_runtime_disable(dev);
>

Applied, thanks!