Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] PM / sleep: Flag to speed up suspend-resume of runtime-suspended devices

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 8 May 2014, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > > Wait a minute.  Following ->runtime_suspend(), you are going to call 
> > > ->suspend() and then ->runtime_resume()?  That doesn't seem like what 
> > > you really want; a ->suspend() call should always have a matching 
> > > ->resume().
> > 
> > Yes, it should, but I didn't see any other way to do that.
> 
> Actually, that's kind of easy to resolve. :-)
> 
> When ->suspend() leaves power.leave_runtime_suspended set, the PM core can
> simply skip the early/late and noirq callbacks and then call ->resume()
> that will be responsible for using whatever is necessary to resume the
> device.
> 
> And perhaps the flag should be called something different then, like
> direct_resume (meaning go directly for ->resume() without executing
> the intermediate callbacks)?

In light of what I wrote earlier, it should be okay for the ->prepare() 
callback to be responsible for setting leave_runtime_suspended.  Then 
there will be no need to call either ->suspend() or ->resume().

Alan Stern

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