Re: [PATCH] PM: runtime: Allow rpm_resume() to succeed when runtime PM is disabled

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Oct 26 2021 - 22:03:07 EST


On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 12:26:26AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> During system suspend, the PM core sets dev->power.is_suspended for the
> device that is being suspended. This flag is also being used in
> rpm_resume(), to allow it to succeed by returning 1, assuming that runtime
> PM has been disabled and the runtime PM status is RPM_ACTIVE, for the
> device.
>
> To make this behaviour a bit more useful, let's drop the check for the
> dev->power.is_suspended flag in rpm_resume(), as it doesn't really need to
> be limited to this anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> index ec94049442b9..fadc278e3a66 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> @@ -742,8 +742,8 @@ static int rpm_resume(struct device *dev, int rpmflags)
> repeat:
> if (dev->power.runtime_error)
> retval = -EINVAL;
> - else if (dev->power.disable_depth == 1 && dev->power.is_suspended
> - && dev->power.runtime_status == RPM_ACTIVE)
> + else if (dev->power.disable_depth > 0 &&
> + dev->power.runtime_status == RPM_ACTIVE)

IIRC there was a good reason why the original code checked for
disable_depth == 1 rather than > 0. But I don't remember exactly what
the reason was. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that during
a system sleep __device_suspend_late calls __pm_runtime_disable, and the
code was checking that there were no other disables in effect. This is
related to the documented behavior of rpm_resume (it's supposed to fail
with -EACCES if the device is disabled for runtime PM, no matter what
power state the device is in).

That probably is also the explanation for why dev->power.is_suspended
gets checked: It's how the code tells whether a system sleep is in
progress.

So overall, I suspect this change should not be made. But some other
improvement (like a nice comment) might be in order.

Alan Stern