From: <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux PCI" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
"Zhang Qilong" <zhangqilong3@huawei.com>,
Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
"Frank Li" <Frank.Li@nxp.com>, Dhruva Gole <d-gole@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] PM: runtime: Add auto-cleanup macros for "resume and get" operations
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:48:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68d6edf1cab3b_10520100a5@dwillia2-mobl4.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2238241.irdbgypaU6@rafael.j.wysocki>
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> It is generally useful to be able to automatically drop a device's
> runtime PM usage counter incremented by runtime PM operations that
> resume a device and bump up its usage counter [1].
>
> To that end, add guard definition macros allowing pm_runtime_put()
> and pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() to be used for the auto-cleanup in
> those cases.
>
> Simply put, a piece of code like below:
>
> pm_runtime_get_sync(dev);
> .....
> pm_runtime_put(dev);
> return 0;
>
> can be transformed with guard() like:
>
> guard(pm_runtime_active)(dev);
> .....
> return 0;
>
> (see the pm_runtime_put() call is gone).
>
> However, it is better to do proper error handling in the majority of
> cases, so doing something like this instead of the above is recommended:
>
> ACQUIRE(pm_runtime_active_try, pm)(dev);
> if (ACQUIRE_ERR(pm_runtime_active_try, &pm))
> return -ENXIO;
> .....
> return 0;
>
> In all of the cases in which runtime PM is known to be enabled for the
> given device or the device can be regarded as operational (and so it can
> be accessed) with runtime PM disabled, a piece of code like:
>
> ret = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(dev);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> .....
> pm_runtime_put(dev);
> return 0;
>
> can be changed as follows:
>
> ACQUIRE(pm_runtime_active_try, pm)(dev);
> ret = ACQUIRE_ERR(pm_runtime_active_try, &pm);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> .....
> return 0;
>
> (again, see the pm_runtime_put() call is gone).
>
> Still, if the device cannot be accessed unless runtime PM has been
> enabled for it, the CLASS(pm_runtime_get_active_enabled) variant
Leftover from CLASS() approach?
s/CLASS(pm_runtime_get_active_enabled)/ACQUIRE(pm_runtime_active_try_enabled)/
> needs to be used, that is (in the context of the example above):
>
> ACQUIRE(pm_runtime_active_try_enabled, pm)(dev);
> ret = ACQUIRE_ERR(pm_runtime_active_try_enabled, &pm);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> .....
> return 0;
>
> When the original code calls pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(), use one
> of the "auto" guard variants, pm_runtime_active_auto/_try/_enabled,
> so for example, a piece of code like:
>
> ret = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(dev);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> .....
> pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(dev);
> return 0;
>
> will become:
>
> ACQUIRE(pm_runtime_active_auto_try_enabled, pm)(dev);
> ret = ACQUIRE_ERR(pm_runtime_active_auto_try_enabled, &pm);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> .....
> return 0;
>
> Note that the cases in which the return value of pm_runtime_get_sync()
> is checked can also be handled with the help of the new class macros.
s/class/guard/
> For example, a piece of code like:
>
> ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(dev);
> if (ret < 0) {
> pm_runtime_put(dev);
> return ret;
> }
> .....
> pm_runtime_put(dev);
> return 0;
>
> can be rewritten as:
>
> ACQUIRE(pm_runtime_active_auto_try_enabled, pm)(dev);
> ret = ACQUIRE_ERR(pm_runtime_active_auto_try_enabled, &pm);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> .....
> return 0;
I like that this appears to unify the pm_runtime_resume_and_get() and
pm_runtime_get_sync() usages into common pattern.
> or pm_runtime_get_active_try can be used if transparent handling of
> disabled runtime PM is desirable.
Do you think the above should go in Documentation too?
Either way, for the usage of ACQUIRE(), looks good to me.
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-26 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-26 15:40 [PATCH v4 0/3] PM: runtime: Auto-cleanup macros for runtime PM Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-09-26 15:47 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] PM: runtime: Add auto-cleanup macros for "resume and get" operations Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-09-26 19:48 ` dan.j.williams [this message]
2025-09-26 19:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-09-29 13:24 ` Dhruva Gole
2025-09-26 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] PCI/sysfs: Use runtime PM guard macro for auto-cleanup Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-10-20 22:07 ` Farhan Ali
2025-10-21 12:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-09-26 16:26 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] PM: runtime: Drop DEFINE_FREE() for pm_runtime_put() Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-09-26 16:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-09-27 7:55 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] PM: runtime: Auto-cleanup macros for runtime PM Takashi Iwai
2025-09-29 11:15 ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-09-29 13:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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