[PATCH 0/15] PM: Suspend/resume and runtime PM for clock sources/clock event devices in PM domains

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

Hi all,

On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> There is a problem with clock sources and clock event devices belonging to PM
> domains that they have to be marked as "always on", to prevent those domains
> from being turned off unexpectedly, which also prevents the domains from
> being turned off during system suspend, although that might be done and would
> be desirable.
> 
> The following patch series introduces a mechanism by which the generic PM
> domains framework can be notified that a given domain may be turned off
> after timekeeping has been suspended, which allows the domains that contain
> clock sources and clock event devices to be turned off before the system
> enters the target sleep state (so that less power is used in that state).
> 
> [1/6] Introduce simplified power on routine for PM domains (to be used during
>       system resume from suspend/hibernation and during "syscore" resume).
> [2/6] Introduce function for notifying the generic PM domains framework that
>       the given device may be treated as suspended (so its domain may be
>       turned off if this has been the last active device in it).
> [3/6] Introduce suspend/resume callbacks for clock event devices.
> [4/6] Make the SH TMU driver use suspend/resume callbacks for clock sources
>       and clock event devices to notify the generic PM domains framework that
>       those devices may be regarded as suspended (during system suspend) or
>       that they have to be turned on immediately (during system resume).
> [5/6] Like [4/6] but for the SH CMT driver.
> [6/6] Analogous to [4/6], but for the SH MTU2 driver.
> 
> The patchset has been tested on the SH7372 Mackerel board.

There were no comments, so I think I can go a bit further and add runtime PM
support to those drivers too. :-)

This requires some core changes, but they aren't too invasive in my opinion.

Patches [1-6/15] are more-or-less the same as before modulo some fixes for bugs
found during more thorough testing.  The remaining patches make the following
changes:

[7/15] - Clean up device PM initialization.
[8/15] - Allow early platform device drivers to use runtime PM helper functions.
[9/15] - Rename the "always_on" device flag to "syscore".
[10/15] - Move the "syscore" flag to the core (from PM domains framework).
[11/15] - Rework the "starting" of devices flagged as "irq safe" in PM domains.
[12/15] - Add runtime PM support to the SH TMU driver.
[13/15] - Add runtime PM support to the SH CMT driver.
[14/15] - Add runtime PM support to the SH MTU2 driver.
[15/15] - Stop using the "syscore" device flag for runtime PM.

Thanks,
Rafael