Re: [PATCH] Driver core: leave runtime PM enabled during system shutdown

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

On Tuesday, December 06, 2011, Alan Stern wrote:
> Disabling all runtime PM during system shutdown turns out not to be a
> good idea, because some devices may need to be woken up from a
> low-power state at that time.
> 
> The whole point of disabling runtime PM for system shutdown was to
> prevent untimely runtime-suspend method calls.  This patch (as1504)
> accomplishes the same result by incrementing the usage count for each
> device and waiting for ongoing runtime-PM callbacks to finish.  This
> is what we already do during system suspend and hibernation, which
> makes sense since the shutdown method is pretty much a legacy analog
> of the pm->poweroff method.
> 
> This fixes a regression on some OMAP systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> Reported-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> CC: Chen Peter-B29397 <B29397@freescale.com>

Greg, do you have any objections against this patch and, if you don't,
would you mind if I took it (it fixes one that went in through my tree).

Thanks,
Rafael


> ---
> 
>  drivers/base/core.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: usb-3.2/drivers/base/core.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-3.2.orig/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ usb-3.2/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -1743,8 +1743,10 @@ void device_shutdown(void)
>  		 */
>  		list_del_init(&dev->kobj.entry);
>  		spin_unlock(&devices_kset->list_lock);
> -		/* Disable all device's runtime power management */
> -		pm_runtime_disable(dev);
> +
> +		/* Don't allow any more runtime suspends */
> +		pm_runtime_get_noresume(dev);
> +		pm_runtime_barrier(dev);
>  
>  		if (dev->bus && dev->bus->shutdown) {
>  			dev_dbg(dev, "shutdown\n");
> 
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