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From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: [PATCH v2] PM / Runtime: Update documentation around probe|remove|suspend
Date: Fri,  8 Nov 2013 06:13:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383887631-2703-1-git-send-email-ulf.hansson@linaro.org> (raw)

PM core and driver core has changed some behavior regarding use of
runtime PM. Update the documentation accordingly.

Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
---
 Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt |   14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index 0f54333..b6ce00b 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -547,13 +547,11 @@ helper functions described in Section 4.  In that case, pm_runtime_resume()
 should be used.  Of course, for this purpose the device's runtime PM has to be
 enabled earlier by calling pm_runtime_enable().
 
-If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() callback runs
-pm_runtime_suspend() or pm_runtime_idle() or their asynchronous counterparts,
-they will fail returning -EAGAIN, because the device's usage counter is
-incremented by the driver core before executing ->probe().  Still, it may be
-desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() has finished, so the driver
-core uses pm_runtime_put_sync() to invoke the subsystem-level idle callback for
-the device at that time.
+It may be desirable to suspend the device once ->probe() has finished.
+Therefore the driver core uses the asyncronous pm_request_idle() to submit a
+request to execute the subsystem-level idle callback for the device at that
+time.  A driver that makes use of the runtime autosuspend feature, may want to
+update the last busy mark before returning from ->probe().
 
 Moreover, the driver core prevents runtime PM callbacks from racing with the bus
 notifier callback in __device_release_driver(), which is necessary, because the
@@ -656,7 +654,7 @@ out the following operations:
     __pm_runtime_disable() with 'false' as the second argument for every device
     right before executing the subsystem-level .suspend_late() callback for it.
 
-  * During system resume it calls pm_runtime_enable() and pm_runtime_put_sync()
+  * During system resume it calls pm_runtime_enable() and pm_runtime_put()
     for every device right after executing the subsystem-level .resume_early()
     callback and right after executing the subsystem-level .resume() callback
     for it, respectively.
-- 
1.7.9.5


             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-08  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-08  5:13 Ulf Hansson [this message]
2013-11-16  1:15 ` [PATCH v2] PM / Runtime: Update documentation around probe|remove|suspend Rafael J. Wysocki

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