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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
To: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PM: runtime: add might_sleep to PM runtime functions
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:26:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uxcr2kd.fsf@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311627344-8097-1-git-send-email-ccross@android.com> (Colin Cross's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:55:44 -0700")

Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> writes:

> Some of the entry points to pm runtime are not safe to
> call in atomic context unless pm_runtime_irq_safe() has
> been called.  Inspecting the code, it is not immediately
> obvious that the functions sleep at all, as they run
> inside a spin_lock_irqsave, but under some conditions
> they can drop the lock and turn on irqs.
>
> If a driver incorrectly calls the pm_runtime apis, it can
> cause sleeping and irq processing when it expects to stay
> in atomic context.
>
> Add might_sleep_if to all the __pm_runtime_* entry points
> to enforce correct usage.

Minor: s/all/most of/, or something similar since in v2, it doesn't
annotate all of the functions anymore, just the main ones likely to be
(mis)used by drivers.

Other than that, looks good...

> Add pm_runtime_put_sync_autosuspend to the list of
> functions that can be called in atomic context.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>

Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>

Kevin

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-25 20:55 [PATCH v2] PM: runtime: add might_sleep to PM runtime functions Colin Cross
2011-07-26 22:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-07-26 22:55   ` Colin Cross
2011-07-27  9:37     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-07-27  0:26 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]

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