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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/pci.txt | 51 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/pci.txt b/Documentation/power/pci.txt index 62328d76b55b..b0e911e0e8f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/pci.txt @@ -979,20 +979,45 @@ every time right after the runtime_resume() callback has returned (alternatively, the runtime_suspend() callback will have to check if the device should really be suspended and return -EAGAIN if that is not the case). -The runtime PM of PCI devices is disabled by default. It is also blocked by -pci_pm_init() that runs the pm_runtime_forbid() helper function. If a PCI -driver implements the runtime PM callbacks and intends to use the runtime PM -framework provided by the PM core and the PCI subsystem, it should enable this -feature by executing the pm_runtime_enable() helper function. However, the -driver should not call the pm_runtime_allow() helper function unblocking -the runtime PM of the device. Instead, it should allow user space or some -platform-specific code to do that (user space can do it via sysfs), although -once it has called pm_runtime_enable(), it must be prepared to handle the +The runtime PM of PCI devices is enabled by default by the PCI core. PCI +device drivers do not need to enable it and should not attempt to do so. +However, it is blocked by pci_pm_init() that runs the pm_runtime_forbid() +helper function. In addition to that, the runtime PM usage counter of +each PCI device is incremented by local_pci_probe() before executing the +probe callback provided by the device's driver. + +If a PCI driver implements the runtime PM callbacks and intends to use the +runtime PM framework provided by the PM core and the PCI subsystem, it needs +to decrement the device's runtime PM usage counter in its probe callback +function. If it doesn't do that, the counter will always be different from +zero for the device and it will never be runtime-suspended. The simplest +way to do that is by calling pm_runtime_put_noidle(), but if the driver +wants to schedule an autosuspend right away, for example, it may call +pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() instead for this purpose. Generally, it +just needs to call a function that decrements the devices usage counter +from its probe routine to make runtime PM work for the device. + +It is important to remember that the driver's runtime_suspend() callback +may be executed right after the usage counter has been decremented, because +user space may already have cuased the pm_runtime_allow() helper function +unblocking the runtime PM of the device to run via sysfs, so the driver must +be prepared to cope with that. + +The driver itself should not call pm_runtime_allow(), though. Instead, it +should let user space or some platform-specific code do that (user space can +do it via sysfs as stated above), but it must be prepared to handle the runtime PM of the device correctly as soon as pm_runtime_allow() is called -(which may happen at any time). [It also is possible that user space causes -pm_runtime_allow() to be called via sysfs before the driver is loaded, so in -fact the driver has to be prepared to handle the runtime PM of the device as -soon as it calls pm_runtime_enable().] +(which may happen at any time, even before the driver is loaded). + +When the driver's remove callback runs, it has to balance the decrementation +of the device's runtime PM usage counter at the probe time. For this reason, +if it has decremented the counter in its probe callback, it must run +pm_runtime_get_noresume() in its remove callback. [Since the core carries +out a runtime resume of the device and bumps up the device's usage counter +before running the driver's remove callback, the runtime PM of the device +is effectively disabled for the duration of the remove execution and all +runtime PM helper functions incrementing the device's usage counter are +then effectively equivalent to pm_runtime_get_noresume().] The runtime PM framework works by processing requests to suspend or resume devices, or to check if they are idle (in which cases it is reasonable to |