Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM / sleep: Mechanism to avoid resuming runtime-suspended devices unnecessarily

[Alan Stern]

On Fri, 16 May 2014, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, some subsystems (e.g. PCI and the ACPI PM domain) have to
> resume all runtime-suspended devices during system suspend, mostly
> because those devices may need to be reprogrammed due to different
> wakeup settings for system sleep and for runtime PM.
> 
> For some devices, though, it's OK to remain in runtime suspend 
> throughout a complete system suspend/resume cycle (if the device was in
> runtime suspend at the start of the cycle).  We would like to do this
> whenever possible, to avoid the overhead of extra power-up and power-down
> events.
> 
> However, problems may arise because the device's descendants may require
> it to be at full power at various points during the cycle.  Therefore the
> most straightforward way to do this safely is if the device and all its
> descendants can remain runtime suspended until the complete stage of
> system resume.
> 
> To this end, introduce a new device PM flag, power.direct_complete
> and modify the PM core to use that flag as follows.
> 
> If the ->prepare() callback of a device returns a positive number,
> the PM core will regard that as an indication that it may leave the
> device runtime-suspended.  It will then check if the system power
> transition in progress is a suspend (and not hibernation in particular)
> and if the device is, indeed, runtime-suspended.  In that case, the PM
> core will set the device's power.direct_complete flag.  Otherwise it
> will clear power.direct_complete for the device and it also will later
> clear it for the device's parent (if there's one).
> 
> Next, the PM core will not invoke the ->suspend() ->suspend_late(),
> ->suspend_irq(), ->resume_irq(), ->resume_early(), or ->resume()
> callbacks for all devices having power.direct_complete set.  It
> will invoke their ->complete() callbacks, however, and those
> callbacks are then responsible for resuming the devices as
> appropriate, if necessary.  For example, in some cases they may
> need to queue up runtime resume requests for the devices using
> pm_request_resume().
> 
> Changelog partly based on an Alan Stern's description of the idea
> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=139940466625569&w=2).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

And likewise for the documentation patches.

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