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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/base/power/runtime.c, branch v5.11-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>PM: runtime: Drop pm_runtime_clean_up_links()</title>
<updated>2020-11-02T17:14:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-21T19:13:10+00:00</published>
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After commit d12544fb2aa9 ("PM: runtime: Remove link state checks in
rpm_get/put_supplier()") nothing prevents the consumer device's
runtime PM from acquiring additional references to the supplier
device after pm_runtime_clean_up_links() has run (or even while it
is running), so calling this function from __device_release_driver()
may be pointless (or even harmful).

Moreover, it ignores stateless device links, so the runtime PM
handling of managed and stateless device links is inconsistent
because of it, so better get rid of it entirely.

Fixes: d12544fb2aa9 ("PM: runtime: Remove link state checks in rpm_get/put_supplier()")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: 5.1+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.1+
Tested-by: Xiang Chen &lt;chenxiang66@hisilicon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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After commit d12544fb2aa9 ("PM: runtime: Remove link state checks in
rpm_get/put_supplier()") nothing prevents the consumer device's
runtime PM from acquiring additional references to the supplier
device after pm_runtime_clean_up_links() has run (or even while it
is running), so calling this function from __device_release_driver()
may be pointless (or even harmful).

Moreover, it ignores stateless device links, so the runtime PM
handling of managed and stateless device links is inconsistent
because of it, so better get rid of it entirely.

Fixes: d12544fb2aa9 ("PM: runtime: Remove link state checks in rpm_get/put_supplier()")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: 5.1+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.1+
Tested-by: Xiang Chen &lt;chenxiang66@hisilicon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: runtime: Drop runtime PM references to supplier on link removal</title>
<updated>2020-11-02T17:14:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-21T19:12:15+00:00</published>
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While removing a device link, drop the supplier device's runtime PM
usage counter as many times as needed to drop all of the runtime PM
references to it from the consumer in addition to dropping the
consumer's link count.

Fixes: baa8809f6097 ("PM / runtime: Optimize the use of device links")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: 5.1+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.1+
Tested-by: Xiang Chen &lt;chenxiang66@hisilicon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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While removing a device link, drop the supplier device's runtime PM
usage counter as many times as needed to drop all of the runtime PM
references to it from the consumer in addition to dropping the
consumer's link count.

Fixes: baa8809f6097 ("PM / runtime: Optimize the use of device links")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: 5.1+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.1+
Tested-by: Xiang Chen &lt;chenxiang66@hisilicon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: runtime: Remove link state checks in rpm_get/put_supplier()</title>
<updated>2020-09-25T15:00:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiang Chen</name>
<email>chenxiang66@hisilicon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-22T13:11:06+00:00</published>
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To support runtime PM for hisi SAS driver (the driver is in directory
drivers/scsi/hisi_sas), we add device link between scsi_device-&gt;sdev_gendev
(consumer device) and hisi_hba-&gt;dev(supplier device) with flags
DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME | DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE.

After runtime suspended consumers and supplier, unload the dirver which
causes a hung.

We found that it called function device_release_driver_internal() to
release the supplier device (hisi_hba-&gt;dev), as the device link was
busy, it set the device link state to DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND, and
then it called device_release_driver_internal() to release the consumer
device (scsi_device-&gt;sdev_gendev).

Then it would try to call pm_runtime_get_sync() to resume the consumer
device, but because consumer-supplier relation existed, it would try
to resume the supplier first, but as the link state was already
DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND, so it skipped resuming the supplier and only
resumed the consumer which hanged (it sends IOs to resume scsi_device
while the SAS controller is suspended).

Simple flow is as follows:

device_release_driver_internal -&gt; (supplier device)
    if device_links_busy -&gt;
	device_links_unbind_consumers -&gt;
	    ...
	    WRITE_ONCE(link-&gt;status, DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND)
	    device_release_driver_internal (consumer device)
    pm_runtime_get_sync -&gt; (consumer device)
	...
	__rpm_callback -&gt;
	    rpm_get_suppliers -&gt;
		if link-&gt;state == DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND -&gt; skip the action of resuming the supplier
		...
    pm_runtime_clean_up_links
    ...

Correct suspend/resume ordering between a supplier device and its consumer
devices (resume the supplier device before resuming consumer devices, and
suspend consumer devices before suspending the supplier device) should be
guaranteed by runtime PM, but the state checks in rpm_get_supplier() and
rpm_put_supplier() break this rule, so remove them.

Signed-off-by: Xiang Chen &lt;chenxiang66@hisilicon.com&gt;
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Cc: All applicable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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To support runtime PM for hisi SAS driver (the driver is in directory
drivers/scsi/hisi_sas), we add device link between scsi_device-&gt;sdev_gendev
(consumer device) and hisi_hba-&gt;dev(supplier device) with flags
DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME | DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE.

After runtime suspended consumers and supplier, unload the dirver which
causes a hung.

We found that it called function device_release_driver_internal() to
release the supplier device (hisi_hba-&gt;dev), as the device link was
busy, it set the device link state to DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND, and
then it called device_release_driver_internal() to release the consumer
device (scsi_device-&gt;sdev_gendev).

Then it would try to call pm_runtime_get_sync() to resume the consumer
device, but because consumer-supplier relation existed, it would try
to resume the supplier first, but as the link state was already
DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND, so it skipped resuming the supplier and only
resumed the consumer which hanged (it sends IOs to resume scsi_device
while the SAS controller is suspended).

Simple flow is as follows:

device_release_driver_internal -&gt; (supplier device)
    if device_links_busy -&gt;
	device_links_unbind_consumers -&gt;
	    ...
	    WRITE_ONCE(link-&gt;status, DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND)
	    device_release_driver_internal (consumer device)
    pm_runtime_get_sync -&gt; (consumer device)
	...
	__rpm_callback -&gt;
	    rpm_get_suppliers -&gt;
		if link-&gt;state == DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND -&gt; skip the action of resuming the supplier
		...
    pm_runtime_clean_up_links
    ...

Correct suspend/resume ordering between a supplier device and its consumer
devices (resume the supplier device before resuming consumer devices, and
suspend consumer devices before suspending the supplier device) should be
guaranteed by runtime PM, but the state checks in rpm_get_supplier() and
rpm_put_supplier() break this rule, so remove them.

Signed-off-by: Xiang Chen &lt;chenxiang66@hisilicon.com&gt;
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Cc: All applicable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: runtime: Improve kerneldoc of pm_runtime_get_if_active()</title>
<updated>2020-08-04T10:40:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-31T17:04:11+00:00</published>
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The kerneldoc comment of pm_runtime_get_if_active() doesn't list the
second argument of the function properly, so fix that and while at it
clarify that comment somewhat and add some markup to it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
The kerneldoc comment of pm_runtime_get_if_active() doesn't list the
second argument of the function properly, so fix that and while at it
clarify that comment somewhat and add some markup to it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: runtime: Make clear what we do when conditions are wrong in rpm_suspend()</title>
<updated>2020-05-25T08:54:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-22T15:09:55+00:00</published>
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rpm_suspend() simple bails out when conditions are wrong. But this is not
immediately obvious from the code.  Make it clear what we do when conditions
are wrong in rpm_suspend().

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
rpm_suspend() simple bails out when conditions are wrong. But this is not
immediately obvious from the code.  Make it clear what we do when conditions
are wrong in rpm_suspend().

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: runtime: Add pm_runtime_get_if_active()</title>
<updated>2020-03-04T10:01:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sakari Ailus</name>
<email>sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-25T09:31:02+00:00</published>
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pm_runtime_get_if_in_use() bumps up the PM-runtime usage count if it
is not equal to zero and the device's PM-runtime status is 'active'.
This works for drivers that do not use autoidle, but for those that
do, the function returns zero even when the device is active.

In order to maintain sane device state while the device is powered on
in the hope that it'll be needed, pm_runtime_get_if_active(dev, true)
returns a positive value if the device's PM-runtime status is 'active'
when it is called, in which case it also increments the device's usage
count.

If the second argument of pm_runtime_get_if_active() is 'false', the
function behaves just like pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(), so redefine
the latter as a wrapper around the former.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
[ rjw: Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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pm_runtime_get_if_in_use() bumps up the PM-runtime usage count if it
is not equal to zero and the device's PM-runtime status is 'active'.
This works for drivers that do not use autoidle, but for those that
do, the function returns zero even when the device is active.

In order to maintain sane device state while the device is powered on
in the hope that it'll be needed, pm_runtime_get_if_active(dev, true)
returns a positive value if the device's PM-runtime status is 'active'
when it is called, in which case it also increments the device's usage
count.

If the second argument of pm_runtime_get_if_active() is 'false', the
function behaves just like pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(), so redefine
the latter as a wrapper around the former.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
[ rjw: Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM-runtime: add tracepoints for usage_count changes</title>
<updated>2020-01-13T11:28:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michał Mirosław</name>
<email>mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-04T16:27:57+00:00</published>
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Add tracepoints to remaining places where device's power.usage_count
is changed.

This helps debugging where and why autosuspend is prevented.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Add tracepoints to remaining places where device's power.usage_count
is changed.

This helps debugging where and why autosuspend is prevented.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2019-09-18T17:04:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-18T17:04:39+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is the big driver core update for 5.4-rc1.

  There was a bit of a churn in here, with a number of core and OF
  platform patches being added to the tree, and then after much
  discussion and review and a day-long in-person meeting, they were
  decided to be reverted and a new set of patches is currently being
  reviewed on the mailing list.

  Other than that churn, there are two "persistent" branches in here
  that other trees will be pulling in as well during the merge window.
  One branch to add support for drivers to have the driver core
  automatically add sysfs attribute files when a driver is bound to a
  device so that the driver doesn't have to manually do it (and then
  clean it up, as it always gets it wrong).

  There's another branch in here for generic lookup helpers for the
  driver core that lots of busses are starting to use. That's the
  majority of the non-driver-core changes in this patch series.

  There's also some on-going debugfs file creation cleanup that has been
  slowly happening over the past few releases, with the goal to
  hopefully get that done sometime next year.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while now with no reported
  issues"

[ Note that the above-mentioned generic lookup helpers branch was
  already brought in by the LED merge (commit 4feaab05dc1e) that had
  shared it.

  Also note that that common branch introduced an i2c bug due to a bad
  conversion, which got fixed here. - Linus ]

* tag 'driver-core-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (49 commits)
  coccinelle: platform_get_irq: Fix parse error
  driver-core: add include guard to linux/container.h
  sysfs: add BIN_ATTR_WO() macro
  driver core: platform: Export platform_get_irq_optional()
  hwmon: pwm-fan: Use platform_get_irq_optional()
  driver core: platform: Introduce platform_get_irq_optional()
  Revert "driver core: Add support for linking devices during device addition"
  Revert "driver core: Add edit_links() callback for drivers"
  Revert "of/platform: Add functional dependency link from DT bindings"
  Revert "driver core: Add sync_state driver/bus callback"
  Revert "of/platform: Pause/resume sync state during init and of_platform_populate()"
  Revert "of/platform: Create device links for all child-supplier depencencies"
  Revert "of/platform: Don't create device links for default busses"
  Revert "of/platform: Fix fn definitons for of_link_is_valid() and of_link_property()"
  Revert "of/platform: Fix device_links_supplier_sync_state_resume() warning"
  Revert "of/platform: Disable generic device linking code for PowerPC"
  devcoredump: fix typo in comment
  devcoredump: use memory_read_from_buffer
  of/platform: Disable generic device linking code for PowerPC
  device.h: Fix warnings for mismatched parameter names in comments
  ...
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<pre>
Pull driver core updates from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is the big driver core update for 5.4-rc1.

  There was a bit of a churn in here, with a number of core and OF
  platform patches being added to the tree, and then after much
  discussion and review and a day-long in-person meeting, they were
  decided to be reverted and a new set of patches is currently being
  reviewed on the mailing list.

  Other than that churn, there are two "persistent" branches in here
  that other trees will be pulling in as well during the merge window.
  One branch to add support for drivers to have the driver core
  automatically add sysfs attribute files when a driver is bound to a
  device so that the driver doesn't have to manually do it (and then
  clean it up, as it always gets it wrong).

  There's another branch in here for generic lookup helpers for the
  driver core that lots of busses are starting to use. That's the
  majority of the non-driver-core changes in this patch series.

  There's also some on-going debugfs file creation cleanup that has been
  slowly happening over the past few releases, with the goal to
  hopefully get that done sometime next year.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while now with no reported
  issues"

[ Note that the above-mentioned generic lookup helpers branch was
  already brought in by the LED merge (commit 4feaab05dc1e) that had
  shared it.

  Also note that that common branch introduced an i2c bug due to a bad
  conversion, which got fixed here. - Linus ]

* tag 'driver-core-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (49 commits)
  coccinelle: platform_get_irq: Fix parse error
  driver-core: add include guard to linux/container.h
  sysfs: add BIN_ATTR_WO() macro
  driver core: platform: Export platform_get_irq_optional()
  hwmon: pwm-fan: Use platform_get_irq_optional()
  driver core: platform: Introduce platform_get_irq_optional()
  Revert "driver core: Add support for linking devices during device addition"
  Revert "driver core: Add edit_links() callback for drivers"
  Revert "of/platform: Add functional dependency link from DT bindings"
  Revert "driver core: Add sync_state driver/bus callback"
  Revert "of/platform: Pause/resume sync state during init and of_platform_populate()"
  Revert "of/platform: Create device links for all child-supplier depencencies"
  Revert "of/platform: Don't create device links for default busses"
  Revert "of/platform: Fix fn definitons for of_link_is_valid() and of_link_property()"
  Revert "of/platform: Fix device_links_supplier_sync_state_resume() warning"
  Revert "of/platform: Disable generic device linking code for PowerPC"
  devcoredump: fix typo in comment
  devcoredump: use memory_read_from_buffer
  of/platform: Disable generic device linking code for PowerPC
  device.h: Fix warnings for mismatched parameter names in comments
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver/core: Convert to use built-in RCU list checking</title>
<updated>2019-08-13T21:28:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes (Google)</name>
<email>joel@joelfernandes.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T22:12:25+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This commit applies the consolidated hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() support
for lockdep conditions.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
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This commit applies the consolidated hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() support
for lockdep conditions.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>driver core: Remove device link creation limitation</title>
<updated>2019-07-25T11:31:18+00:00</updated>
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<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
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<published>2019-07-16T15:21:06+00:00</published>
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If device_link_add() is called for a consumer/supplier pair with an
existing device link between them and the existing link's type is
not in agreement with the flags passed to that function by its
caller, NULL will be returned.  That is seriously inconvenient,
because it forces the callers of device_link_add() to worry about
what others may or may not do even if that is not relevant to them
for any other reasons.

It turns out, however, that this limitation can be made go away
relatively easily.

The underlying observation is that if DL_FLAG_STATELESS has been
passed to device_link_add() in flags for the given consumer/supplier
pair at least once, calling either device_link_del() or
device_link_remove() to release the link returned by it should work,
but there are no other requirements associated with that flag.  In
turn, if at least one of the callers of device_link_add() for the
given consumer/supplier pair has not passed DL_FLAG_STATELESS to it
in flags, the driver core should track the status of the link and act
on it as appropriate (ie. the link should be treated as "managed").
This means that DL_FLAG_STATELESS needs to be set for managed device
links and it should be valid to call device_link_del() or
device_link_remove() to drop references to them in certain
sutiations.

To allow that to happen, introduce a new (internal) device link flag
called DL_FLAG_MANAGED and make device_link_add() set it automatically
whenever DL_FLAG_STATELESS is not passed to it.  Also make it take
additional references to existing device links that were previously
stateless (that is, with DL_FLAG_STATELESS set and DL_FLAG_MANAGED
unset) and will need to be managed going forward and initialize
their status (which has been DL_STATE_NONE so far).

Accordingly, when a managed device link is dropped automatically
by the driver core, make it clear DL_FLAG_MANAGED, reset the link's
status back to DL_STATE_NONE and drop the reference to it associated
with DL_FLAG_MANAGED instead of just deleting it right away (to
allow it to stay around in case it still needs to be released
explicitly by someone).

With that, since setting DL_FLAG_STATELESS doesn't mean that the
device link in question is not managed any more, replace all of the
status-tracking checks against DL_FLAG_STATELESS with analogous
checks against DL_FLAG_MANAGED and update the documentation to
reflect these changes.

While at it, make device_link_add() reject flags that it does not
recognize, including DL_FLAG_MANAGED.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan &lt;saravanak@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Review-by: Saravana Kannan &lt;saravanak@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2305283.AStDPdUUnE@kreacher
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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If device_link_add() is called for a consumer/supplier pair with an
existing device link between them and the existing link's type is
not in agreement with the flags passed to that function by its
caller, NULL will be returned.  That is seriously inconvenient,
because it forces the callers of device_link_add() to worry about
what others may or may not do even if that is not relevant to them
for any other reasons.

It turns out, however, that this limitation can be made go away
relatively easily.

The underlying observation is that if DL_FLAG_STATELESS has been
passed to device_link_add() in flags for the given consumer/supplier
pair at least once, calling either device_link_del() or
device_link_remove() to release the link returned by it should work,
but there are no other requirements associated with that flag.  In
turn, if at least one of the callers of device_link_add() for the
given consumer/supplier pair has not passed DL_FLAG_STATELESS to it
in flags, the driver core should track the status of the link and act
on it as appropriate (ie. the link should be treated as "managed").
This means that DL_FLAG_STATELESS needs to be set for managed device
links and it should be valid to call device_link_del() or
device_link_remove() to drop references to them in certain
sutiations.

To allow that to happen, introduce a new (internal) device link flag
called DL_FLAG_MANAGED and make device_link_add() set it automatically
whenever DL_FLAG_STATELESS is not passed to it.  Also make it take
additional references to existing device links that were previously
stateless (that is, with DL_FLAG_STATELESS set and DL_FLAG_MANAGED
unset) and will need to be managed going forward and initialize
their status (which has been DL_STATE_NONE so far).

Accordingly, when a managed device link is dropped automatically
by the driver core, make it clear DL_FLAG_MANAGED, reset the link's
status back to DL_STATE_NONE and drop the reference to it associated
with DL_FLAG_MANAGED instead of just deleting it right away (to
allow it to stay around in case it still needs to be released
explicitly by someone).

With that, since setting DL_FLAG_STATELESS doesn't mean that the
device link in question is not managed any more, replace all of the
status-tracking checks against DL_FLAG_STATELESS with analogous
checks against DL_FLAG_MANAGED and update the documentation to
reflect these changes.

While at it, make device_link_add() reject flags that it does not
recognize, including DL_FLAG_MANAGED.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan &lt;saravanak@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Review-by: Saravana Kannan &lt;saravanak@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2305283.AStDPdUUnE@kreacher
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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