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* [PATCH 1/1] base: power: runtime: Export pm_runtime_get/put_suppliers
@ 2017-12-08 12:30 Vivek Gautam
  2017-12-08 13:21 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Vivek Gautam @ 2017-12-08 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rjw, len.brown, pavel, gregkh
  Cc: linux-pm, linux-kernel, sboyd, robdclark, robin.murphy,
	will.deacon, linux-arm-msm, Vivek Gautam

The device link allows the pm framework to tie the supplier and
consumer. So, whenever the consumer is powered-on, the supplier
is powered-on first.

There are however cases in which the consumer wants to power-on
the supplier, but not itself.
E.g., A Graphics or multimedia driver wants to power-on the SMMU
to unmap a buffer and finish the TLB operations without powering
on itself. Some of these unmap requests are coming from the
user space when the controller itself is not powered-up, and it
can be huge penalty in terms of power and latency to power-up
the graphics/mm controllers.
There can be an argument that the supplier should handle this case
on its own and there should not be a need for the consumer to
power-on the supplier. But as discussed on the thread [1] about
ARM-SMMU runtime pm, we don't want to introduce runtime pm calls
in atomic paths, such as in arm_smmu_unmap.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9827825/

Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org>
---
 drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
index 027d159ac381..af169304ca13 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
@@ -1578,6 +1578,7 @@ void pm_runtime_get_suppliers(struct device *dev)
 
 	device_links_read_unlock(idx);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_runtime_get_suppliers);
 
 /**
  * pm_runtime_put_suppliers - Drop references to supplier devices.
@@ -1596,6 +1597,7 @@ void pm_runtime_put_suppliers(struct device *dev)
 
 	device_links_read_unlock(idx);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_runtime_put_suppliers);
 
 void pm_runtime_new_link(struct device *dev)
 {
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2017-12-08 12:30 [PATCH 1/1] base: power: runtime: Export pm_runtime_get/put_suppliers Vivek Gautam
2017-12-08 13:21 ` Greg KH
2017-12-08 13:39   ` Vivek Gautam
2017-12-08 14:07     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-12-08 17:03       ` Vivek Gautam
2018-01-03 12:01         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-01-03 12:42           ` Vivek Gautam

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