[PATCH 4/4] drm/panfrost: Fix RPM so device suspends when no jobs are in flight

From: Adrián Larumbe

Date: Mon May 25 2026 - 19:05:43 EST


Right now, because of an apparent bug in the management of runtime PM,
the device remains powered on at all times. This was causing three
different issues:

- Because MMU interrupts are only enabled when the device resets, the very
first job targeting the tiler heap would always time out, as a device reset
is only performed during a runtime resume operation.
- Devfreq OPP transition notifications would be printed all the time, even
when the device is meant to be idle, which polute the kernel ring buffer.
- PM refcnt would eventually underflow.

Signed-off-by: Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
index cb8e5015847f..68b831add0bb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
@@ -986,9 +986,8 @@ static int panfrost_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto err_out0;
}

- pm_runtime_set_active(pfdev->base.dev);
- pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(pfdev->base.dev);
pm_runtime_enable(pfdev->base.dev);
+ pm_runtime_resume_and_get(pfdev->base.dev);
pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(pfdev->base.dev, 50); /* ~3 frames */
pm_runtime_use_autosuspend(pfdev->base.dev);

@@ -1004,6 +1003,8 @@ static int panfrost_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (err)
goto err_out2;

+ pm_runtime_put_sync_suspend(pfdev->base.dev);
+
return 0;

err_out2:
@@ -1024,8 +1025,9 @@ static void panfrost_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
panfrost_gem_shrinker_cleanup(&pfdev->base);

pm_runtime_get_sync(pfdev->base.dev);
- pm_runtime_disable(pfdev->base.dev);
panfrost_device_fini(pfdev);
+ pm_runtime_put_sync(pfdev->base.dev);
+ pm_runtime_disable(pfdev->base.dev);
pm_runtime_set_suspended(pfdev->base.dev);
}


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