Re: [PATCH v3 79/79] media: hantro: document the usage of pm_runtime_get_sync()

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 16:08 +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2021-04-27 11:27, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Despite other *_get()/*_put() functions, where usage count is
> > incremented only if not errors, the pm_runtime_get_sync() has
> > a different behavior, incrementing the counter *even* on
> > errors.
> > 
> > That's an error prone behavior, as people often forget to
> > decrement the usage counter.
> > 
> > However, the hantro driver depends on this behavior, as it
> > will decrement the usage_count unconditionally at the m2m
> > job finish time, which makes sense.
> > 
> > So, intead of using the pm_runtime_resume_and_get() that
> > would decrement the counter on error, keep the current
> > API, but add a documentation explaining the rationale for
> > keep using pm_runtime_get_sync().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c | 7 +++++++
> >   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c b/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c
> > index 595e82a82728..96f940c1c85c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_drv.c
> > @@ -155,6 +155,13 @@ static void device_run(void *priv)
> >         ret = clk_bulk_enable(ctx->dev->variant->num_clocks, ctx->dev->clocks);
> >         if (ret)
> >                 goto err_cancel_job;
> 
> ..except this can also cause the same pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() call 
> without even reaching the "matching" get below, so rather than some kind 
> of cleverness it seems more like it's just broken :/
> 

Indeed, I was trying to find time to cook a quick patch, but kept
getting preempted.

Feel free to submit a fix for this, otherwise, I'll try to find
time later this week.

Thanks,
Ezequiel