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2025-12-15PM: sleep: Do not flag runtime PM workqueue as freezableRafael J. Wysocki
Till now, the runtime PM workqueue has been flagged as freezable, so it does not process work items during system-wide PM transitions like system suspend and resume. The original reason to do that was to reduce the likelihood of runtime PM getting in the way of system-wide PM processing, but now it is mostly an optimization because (1) runtime suspend of devices is prevented by bumping up their runtime PM usage counters in device_prepare() and (2) device drivers are expected to disable runtime PM for the devices handled by them before they embark on system-wide PM activities that may change the state of the hardware or otherwise interfere with runtime PM. However, it prevents asynchronous runtime resume of devices from working during system-wide PM transitions, which is confusing because synchronous runtime resume is not prevented at the same time, and it also sometimes turns out to be problematic. For example, it has been reported that blk_queue_enter() may deadlock during a system suspend transition because of the pm_request_resume() usage in it [1]. It may also deadlock during a system resume transition in a similar way. That happens because the asynchronous runtime resume of the given device is not processed due to the freezing of the runtime PM workqueue. While it may be better to address this particular issue in the block layer, the very presence of it means that similar problems may be expected to occur elsewhere. For this reason, remove the WQ_FREEZABLE flag from the runtime PM workqueue and make device_suspend_late() use the generic variant of pm_runtime_disable() that will carry out runtime PM of the device synchronously if there is pending resume work for it. Also update the comment before the pm_runtime_disable() call in device_suspend_late(), to document the fact that the runtime PM should not be expected to work for the device until the end of device_resume_early(), and update the related documentation. This change may, even though it is not expected to, uncover some latent issues related to queuing up asynchronous runtime resume work items during system suspend or hibernation. However, they should be limited to the interference between runtime resume and system-wide PM callbacks in the cases when device drivers start to handle system-wide PM before disabling runtime PM as described above. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20251126101636.205505-2-yang.yang@vivo.com/ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12794222.O9o76ZdvQC@rafael.j.wysocki
2025-12-04PM: runtime: Make pm_runtime_barrier() return voidBrian Norris
No callers check the return code, and that's a good thing. Doing so would be racy and unhelpful. Drop the return code entirely, so we don't make anyone think about its complexities. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251202193129.1411419-2-briannorris@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2025-10-23PM: runtime: docs: Update pm_runtime_allow/forbid() documentationRafael J. Wysocki
Drop confusing descriptions of pm_runtime_allow() and pm_runtime_forbid() from Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst and update the kerneldoc comments of these functions to better explain their purpose. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/08976178-298f-79d9-1d63-cff5a4e56cc3@linux.intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12780841.O9o76ZdvQC@rafael.j.wysocki
2025-06-18Documentation: PM: *_autosuspend() functions update last busy timeSakari Ailus
Document that the *_autosuspend() variants of the Runtime PM functions update the last busy timestamp. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616061212.2286741-7-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2025-06-18PM: runtime: Mark last busy stamp in pm_request_autosuspend()Sakari Ailus
Set device's last busy timestamp to current time in pm_request_autosuspend(). Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616061212.2286741-6-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2025-06-18PM: runtime: Mark last busy stamp in pm_runtime_autosuspend()Sakari Ailus
Set device's last busy timestamp to current time in pm_runtime_autosuspend(). Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616061212.2286741-5-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2025-06-18PM: runtime: Mark last busy stamp in pm_runtime_put_sync_autosuspend()Sakari Ailus
Set device's last busy timestamp to current time in pm_runtime_put_sync_autosuspend(). Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616061212.2286741-4-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2025-06-18PM: runtime: Mark last busy stamp in pm_runtime_put_autosuspend()Sakari Ailus
Set device's last busy timestamp to current time in pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(). Callers wishing not to do that will need to use __pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(). Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616061212.2286741-3-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2025-04-15Documentation: PM: runtime: Fix a reference to pm_runtime_autosuspend()Sakari Ailus
pm_runtime_autosuspend() got accidentally renamed as __pm_runtime_autosuspend() whereas the intention in the patch was to rename pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() only. Fix it. Fixes: b7d46644e554 ("PM: runtime: Add pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() replacement") Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410153106.4146265-2-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2024-12-10Documentation: PM: Clarify pm_runtime_resume_and_get() return valuePaul Barker
Update the documentation to match the behaviour of the code. pm_runtime_resume_and_get() always returns 0 on success, even if __pm_runtime_resume() returns 1. Fixes: 2c412337cfe6 ("PM: runtime: Add documentation for pm_runtime_resume_and_get()") Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241203143729.478-1-paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits, adjusted new comment formatting ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2024-09-04Documentation: PM: Discourage use of deprecated macrosAndy Shevchenko
The Documentation refers to some deprecated macros. Update those parts accordingly. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240903172520.3568731-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com [ rjw: Changelog edit ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2024-02-29Documentation: PM: Fix runtime_pm.rst markdown syntaxYiwei Lin
The '7. Generic subsystem callbacks' should be a section title, but the markdown syntax is not adequate now. Fix it so the chapter can be linked at docs.kernel.org correctly. Signed-off-by: Yiwei Lin <s921975628@gmail.com> [ rjw: Changelog edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2024-02-12PM: runtime: Add pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() replacementSakari Ailus
Add __pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() that replaces pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() for new users. The intent is to later re-purpose pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() to also mark the device's last busy stamp---which is what the vast majority of users actually need. This is also described in pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() documentation. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2024-02-12PM: runtime: Simplify pm_runtime_get_if_active() usageSakari Ailus
There are two ways to opportunistically increment a device's runtime PM usage count, calling either pm_runtime_get_if_active() or pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(). The former has an argument to tell whether to ignore the usage count or not, and the latter simply calls the former with ign_usage_count set to false. The other users that want to ignore the usage_count will have to explicitly set that argument to true which is a bit cumbersome. To make this function more practical to use, remove the ign_usage_count argument from the function. The main implementation is in a static function called pm_runtime_get_conditional() and implementations of pm_runtime_get_if_active() and pm_runtime_get_if_in_use() are moved to runtime.c. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> # sound/ Reviewed-by: Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz@linux.intel.com> # drivers/accel/ivpu/ Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> # drivers/gpu/drm/i915/ Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> # drivers/pci/ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2021-12-17PM: runtime: Capture device status before disabling runtime PMRafael J. Wysocki
In some cases (for example, during system-wide suspend and resume of devices) it is useful to know whether or not runtime PM has ever been enabled for a given device and, if so, what the runtime PM status of it had been right before runtime PM was disabled for it last time. For this reason, introduce a new struct dev_pm_info field called last_status that will be used for capturing the runtime PM status of the device when its power.disable_depth counter changes from 0 to 1. The new field will be set to RPM_INVALID to start with and whenever power.disable_depth changes from 1 to 0, so it will be valid only when runtime PM of the device is currently disabled, but it has been enabled at least once. Immediately use power.last_status in rpm_resume() to make it handle the case when PM runtime is disabled for the device, but its runtime PM status is RPM_ACTIVE more consistently. Namely, make it return 1 if power.last_status is also equal to RPM_ACTIVE in that case (the idea being that if the status was RPM_ACTIVE last time when power.disable_depth was changing from 0 to 1 and it is still RPM_ACTIVE, it can be assumed to reflect what happened to the device last time when it was using runtime PM) and -EACCES otherwise. Update the documentation to provide a description of last_status and change the description of pm_runtime_resume() in it to reflect the new behavior of rpm_active(). While at it, rearrange the code in pm_runtime_enable() to be more straightforward and replace the WARN() macro in it with a pr_warn() invocation which is less disruptive. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20211026222626.39222-1-ulf.hansson@linaro.org/t/#u Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2021-06-11PM: runtime: Clarify documentation when callbacks are unassignedUlf Hansson
Recent changes to the PM core allows ->runtime_suspend|resume callbacks to be unassigned. In the earlier behaviour the PM core would return -ENOSYS, when trying to runtime resume a device, for example. Let's update the documentation to clarify this. Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2021-05-31PM: runtime: document common mistake with pm_runtime_get_sync()Krzysztof Kozlowski
pm_runtime_get_sync(), contradictory to intuition, does not drop the runtime PM usage counter on errors which lead to several wrong usages in drivers (missing the put). pm_runtime_resume_and_get() was added as a better implementation so document the preference of using it, hoping it will stop bad patterns. Suggested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com> [ rjw: Documentation change edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2021-04-09PM: runtime: Add documentation for pm_runtime_resume_and_get()Alan Stern
Commit dd8088d5a896 ("PM: runtime: Add pm_runtime_resume_and_get to deal with usage counter") added a new runtime-PM API function without updating the documentation in runtime_pm.rst. Add the missing documentation. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Fixes: dd8088d5a896 ("PM: runtime: Add pm_runtime_resume_and_get to deal with usage counter") Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2021-01-27PM: runtime: Fix typos and grammarBjorn Helgaas
Fix minor typos and grammatical issues. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-03-04PM: runtime: Add pm_runtime_get_if_active()Sakari Ailus
pm_runtime_get_if_in_use() bumps up the PM-runtime usage count if it is not equal to zero and the device's PM-runtime status is 'active'. This works for drivers that do not use autoidle, but for those that do, the function returns zero even when the device is active. In order to maintain sane device state while the device is powered on in the hope that it'll be needed, pm_runtime_get_if_active(dev, true) returns a positive value if the device's PM-runtime status is 'active' when it is called, in which case it also increments the device's usage count. If the second argument of pm_runtime_get_if_active() is 'false', the function behaves just like pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(), so redefine the latter as a wrapper around the former. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> [ rjw: Changelog ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2019-11-20PM: Wrap documentation to fit in 80 columnsBjorn Helgaas
Wrap to 80 columns. No textual change except to correct some "it's" that should be "its". Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2019-06-14docs: power: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert the PM documents to ReST, in order to allow them to build with Sphinx. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and indentation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>