Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] PM / sleep: Let devices force direct_complete

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 05:24:49PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Introduce a new per-device flag power.force_direct_complete that will
> instruct the PM core to ignore the runtime PM status of its descendants
> when deciding whether to let this device remain in runtime suspend when
> the system goes into a sleep power state.
> 
> This is needed because otherwise it would be needed to get dozens of
> drivers to implement the prepare() callback and be runtime PM active
> even if they don't have a 1-to-1 relationship with a piece of HW.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/power/main.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  include/linux/pm.h        |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/main.c b/drivers/base/power/main.c
> index 3d874ec..728c2dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/main.c
> @@ -1438,7 +1438,9 @@ static int __device_suspend(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state, bool async)
>  		if (parent) {
>  			spin_lock_irq(&parent->power.lock);
>  
> -			dev->parent->power.direct_complete = false;
> +			if (!dev->parent->power.force_direct_complete)
> +				dev->parent->power.direct_complete = false;
> +
>  			if (dev->power.wakeup_path
>  			    && !dev->parent->power.ignore_children)
>  				dev->parent->power.wakeup_path = true;
> @@ -1605,9 +1607,12 @@ static int device_prepare(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state)
>  	 * will do the same thing with all of its descendants".  This only
>  	 * applies to suspend transitions, however.
>  	 */
> -	spin_lock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
> -	dev->power.direct_complete = ret > 0 && state.event == PM_EVENT_SUSPEND;
> -	spin_unlock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
> +	if (state.event == PM_EVENT_SUSPEND) {
> +		spin_lock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
> +		dev->power.direct_complete = ret > 0 ||
> +			dev->power.force_direct_complete;
> +		spin_unlock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
> +	}
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/pm.h b/include/linux/pm.h
> index 2d29c64..2e41cfd 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pm.h
> @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ struct dev_pm_info {
>  	bool			ignore_children:1;
>  	bool			early_init:1;	/* Owned by the PM core */
>  	bool			direct_complete:1;	/* Owned by the PM core */
> +	bool			force_direct_complete:1;

Where have you documented this?  I foresee this just getting messier and
messier...