RE: [PATCH 1/1] PM / Runtime: let rpm_resume fail if rpm disabled and device suspended.

Allen Yu
2014-06-16T03:03:21Z

On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Alan Stern wrote:

> > dev->power.is_suspended is set after core suspends device during system
> suspend.
> > This flag mostly means device is not operational (all I/O been
> > quiesced, no more data read or write acceptible, etc.), hence it's
> > dangerous to access hardware if device is suspended even though runtime
> PM status is RPM_ACTIVE.
> >
> > In turn, we should allow device to be accessed in case device is *not*
> > suspended and runtime PM status is RPM_ACTIVE, even if runtime PM
> > disabled. This corner case can happen to a device in a generic PM
> > domain if the domain is not powered off while preparing for a system-wide
> power transition.
>
> I don't understand. Even if the PM domain isn't powered off, the device's
> is_suspended flag will still be set by __device_suspend().

Yes, is_suspended flag will be set by __device_suspend(). But runtime PM can be disabled in pm_genpd_prepare():

914 static int pm_genpd_prepare(struct device *dev){
...
956 /*
957 * The PM domain must be in the GPD_STATE_ACTIVE state at this point,
958 * so pm_genpd_poweron() will return immediately, but if the device
959 * is suspended (e.g. it's been stopped by genpd_stop_dev()), we need
960 * to make it operational.
961 */
962 pm_runtime_resume(dev);
963 __pm_runtime_disable(dev, false);
...
978 }

And there is a gap between pm_genpd_prepare() and __device_suspend(), during which is_suspended flag is *not* yet set but runtime PM is disabled and device status is RPM_ACTIVE.

>
> > In this case, runtime PM status will
> > be set to RPM_ACTIVE and then runtime PM is disabled. After that,
> > device driver may call pm_runtime_get_sync() and rpm_resume() should
> > return 1, because the device is still active as long as not been suspended.
>
> Isn't that what the existing code does already? Your patch seems to change
> it so that it _doesn't_ behave the way you want.
>

The existing code return 1 for case is_suspended flag is set. That means __device_suspend() has been called and device is not in operational state. Whereas the case I mentioned above is before device is suspended.
It's dangerous to access device if it's in suspended state, so I propose only allowing access to a device if it's not suspended (i.e. value of "is_suspneded" flag is false).

> > Signed-off-by: Allen Yu <alleny@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> > b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c index 67c7938..39885f1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
> > @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ static int rpm_resume(struct device *dev, int
> rpmflags)
> > repeat:
> > if (dev->power.runtime_error)
> > retval = -EINVAL;
> > - else if (dev->power.disable_depth == 1 && dev-
> >power.is_suspended
> > + else if (dev->power.disable_depth == 1 && !dev-
> >power.is_suspended
> > && dev->power.runtime_status == RPM_ACTIVE)
> > retval = 1;
>
> Alan Stern