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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: "Ohad Ben-Cohen" <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] subtle pm_runtime_put_sync race and sdio functions
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:21:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012282021.31695.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimHHN+GesyhR6Jjnm771XLhn=inn=vrSk=mT6Mh@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday, December 28, 2010, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > On Sunday, December 26, 2010, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> >> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> >> > Why does the driver need the device to be reset even though it hasn't
> >> > been suspeneded yet?
> >>
> >> Because it is asked to stop the hardware by mac80211.
> >
> > So I guess the mac80211 layer should ask it to start it again.
> 
> It does...
> 
> And at this point the driver will try to boot a new firmware, but it
> will only succeed if the device was indeed powered off. If it wasn't
> (system suspend was cancelled before the host controller  suspended),
> the driver will fail to resume the device (because it can't reset it).

It looks like you could simply do a power down-power up cycle before trying to
load new firmware, just in case.  I guess that's suboptimal for some reason?

> We can change man80211 to let us know the system is suspending, and
> then we will power down the device directly. Or we can use something
> like your "runtime only" proposal, and then pm_runtime_put_sync() will
> just work for us regardless of the system state.

The pm_runtime_put_sync() is irrelevant at this point IMHO.  First, we should
figure out what needs to be done at the low level and _then_ think how to
code it.  From that we'll learn if you _really_ need anything new from the PM
core, but quite frankly I seriously doubt it right now.

> But that will not solve the /sys/devices/.../power/control problem.
> For that we will either have always to bypass runtime PM, or introduce
> something like "always auto"...

Please pretend that the runtime PM framework doesn't exist for a while.  How
would you design things in that case?

Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-28 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2010-12-18 16:00       ` [linux-pm] subtle pm_runtime_put_sync race and sdio functions Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-18 16:40         ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-18 19:08           ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-18 21:30             ` Alan Stern
2010-12-18 22:57               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-18 22:52             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-18 21:29           ` Alan Stern
2010-12-18 22:50           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-18 22:47         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-19  7:48           ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-19 10:22           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-20  3:37             ` Alan Stern
2010-12-20 21:17               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-21  0:57                 ` Alan Stern
2010-12-21 21:31                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-22  1:42                     ` Alan Stern
2010-12-22 12:29                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-01-26 23:28                         ` Kevin Hilman
2011-01-27 18:13                           ` Alan Stern
2011-01-27 19:22                             ` Kevin Hilman
2011-01-27 19:49                               ` Alan Stern
2011-01-27 20:15                                 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-01-27 22:18                                   ` Vitaly Wool
2011-01-27 23:21                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-01-27 23:49                                     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-01-27 23:11                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-01-27 18:20                           ` Vitaly Wool
2011-01-27 18:54                             ` Kevin Hilman
2010-12-21 22:23             ` Kevin Hilman
2010-12-22  1:48               ` Alan Stern
2010-12-23  7:51             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-23 16:03               ` Alan Stern
2010-12-25  7:34                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-25 16:21                   ` Alan Stern
2010-12-25 20:58                     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-25 21:50                       ` Vitaly Wool
2010-12-26  5:27                         ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-25 21:54                       ` Vitaly Wool
2010-12-26  2:48                       ` Alan Stern
2010-12-26  5:55                         ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-26 11:45                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-26 12:43                             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-26 18:35                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-28 19:11                                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-28 19:21                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2010-12-28 19:34                                     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-28 20:36                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-26 14:53                             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-26 18:37                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-28 19:15                                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-28 20:04                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-28 20:41                                     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-26 17:00                           ` Alan Stern
2010-12-28 19:04                             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-28 21:46                               ` Alan Stern
2010-12-29  6:34                                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-30  4:25                                   ` Alan Stern
2010-12-29  8:01                                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-12-30  4:30                                   ` Alan Stern

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