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diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt index 0e856088db7..f32ce541957 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Runtime Power Management Framework for I/O Devices (C) 2009-2011 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc. (C) 2010 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> +(C) 2014 Intel Corp., Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> 1. Introduction @@ -44,98 +45,118 @@ struct dev_pm_ops { }; The ->runtime_suspend(), ->runtime_resume() and ->runtime_idle() callbacks -are executed by the PM core for either the power domain, or the device type -(if the device power domain's struct dev_pm_ops does not exist), or the class -(if the device power domain's and type's struct dev_pm_ops object does not -exist), or the bus type (if the device power domain's, type's and class' -struct dev_pm_ops objects do not exist) of the given device, so the priority -order of callbacks from high to low is that power domain callbacks, device -type callbacks, class callbacks and bus type callbacks, and the high priority -one will take precedence over low priority one. The bus type, device type and -class callbacks are referred to as subsystem-level callbacks in what follows, -and generally speaking, the power domain callbacks are used for representing -power domains within a SoC. +are executed by the PM core for the device's subsystem that may be either of +the following: + + 1. PM domain of the device, if the device's PM domain object, dev->pm_domain, + is present. + + 2. Device type of the device, if both dev->type and dev->type->pm are present. + + 3. Device class of the device, if both dev->class and dev->class->pm are + present. + + 4. Bus type of the device, if both dev->bus and dev->bus->pm are present. + +If the subsystem chosen by applying the above rules doesn't provide the relevant +callback, the PM core will invoke the corresponding driver callback stored in +dev->driver->pm directly (if present). + +The PM core always checks which callback to use in the order given above, so the +priority order of callbacks from high to low is: PM domain, device type, class +and bus type. Moreover, the high-priority one will always take precedence over +a low-priority one. The PM domain, bus type, device type and class callbacks +are referred to as subsystem-level callbacks in what follows. By default, the callbacks are always invoked in process context with interrupts -enabled. However, subsystems can use the pm_runtime_irq_safe() helper function -to tell the PM core that a device's ->runtime_suspend() and ->runtime_resume() -callbacks should be invoked in atomic context with interrupts disabled. -This implies that these callback routines must not block or sleep, but it also -means that the synchronous helper functions listed at the end of Section 4 can -be used within an interrupt handler or in an atomic context. - -The subsystem-level suspend callback is _entirely_ _responsible_ for handling -the suspend of the device as appropriate, which may, but need not include -executing the device driver's own ->runtime_suspend() callback (from the +enabled. However, the pm_runtime_irq_safe() helper function can be used to tell +the PM core that it is safe to run the ->runtime_suspend(), ->runtime_resume() +and ->runtime_idle() callbacks for the given device in atomic context with +interrupts disabled. This implies that the callback routines in question must +not block or sleep, but it also means that the synchronous helper functions +listed at the end of Section 4 may be used for that device within an interrupt +handler or generally in an atomic context. + +The subsystem-level suspend callback, if present, is _entirely_ _responsible_ +for handling the suspend of the device as appropriate, which may, but need not +include executing the device driver's own ->runtime_suspend() callback (from the PM core's point of view it is not necessary to implement a ->runtime_suspend() callback in a device driver as long as the subsystem-level suspend callback knows what to do to handle the device). - * Once the subsystem-level suspend callback has completed successfully - for given device, the PM core regards the device as suspended, which need - not mean that the device has been put into a low power state. It is - supposed to mean, however, that the device will not process data and will - not communicate with the CPU(s) and RAM until the subsystem-level resume - callback is executed for it. The runtime PM status of a device after - successful execution of the subsystem-level suspend callback is 'suspended'. - - * If the subsystem-level suspend callback returns -EBUSY or -EAGAIN, - the device's runtime PM status is 'active', which means that the device - _must_ be fully operational afterwards. - - * If the subsystem-level suspend callback returns an error code different - from -EBUSY or -EAGAIN, the PM core regards this as a fatal error and will - refuse to run the helper functions described in Section 4 for the device, - until the status of it is directly set either to 'active', or to 'suspended' - (the PM core provides special helper functions for this purpose). - -In particular, if the driver requires remote wake-up capability (i.e. hardware + * Once the subsystem-level suspend callback (or the driver suspend callback, + if invoked directly) has completed successfully for the given device, the PM + core regards the device as suspended, which need not mean that it has been + put into a low power state. It is supposed to mean, however, that the + device will not process data and will not communicate with the CPU(s) and + RAM until the appropriate resume callback is executed for it. The runtime + PM status of a device after successful execution of the suspend callback is + 'suspended'. + + * If the suspend callback returns -EBUSY or -EAGAIN, the device's runtime PM + status remains 'active', which means that the device _must_ be fully + operational afterwards. + + * If the suspend callback returns an error code different from -EBUSY and + -EAGAIN, the PM core regards this as a fatal error and will refuse to run + the helper functions described in Section 4 for the device until its status + is directly set to either'active', or 'suspended' (the PM core provides + special helper functions for this purpose). + +In particular, if the driver requires remote wakeup capability (i.e. hardware mechanism allowing the device to request a change of its power state, such as PCI PME) for proper functioning and device_run_wake() returns 'false' for the device, then ->runtime_suspend() should return -EBUSY. On the other hand, if -device_run_wake() returns 'true' for the device and the device is put into a low -power state during the execution of the subsystem-level suspend callback, it is -expected that remote wake-up will be enabled for the device. Generally, remote -wake-up should be enabled for all input devices put into a low power state at -run time. - -The subsystem-level resume callback is _entirely_ _responsible_ for handling the -resume of the device as appropriate, which may, but need not include executing -the device driver's own ->runtime_resume() callback (from the PM core's point of -view it is not necessary to implement a ->runtime_resume() callback in a device -driver as long as the subsystem-level resume callback knows what to do to handle -the device). - - * Once the subsystem-level resume callback has completed successfully, the PM - core regards the device as fully operational, which means that the device - _must_ be able to complete I/O operations as needed. The runtime PM status - of the device is then 'active'. - - * If the subsystem-level resume callback returns an error code, the PM core - regards this as a fatal error and will refuse to run the helper functions - described in Section 4 for the device, until its status is directly set - either to 'active' or to 'suspended' (the PM core provides special helper - functions for this purpose). - -The subsystem-level idle callback is executed by the PM core whenever the device -appears to be idle, which is indicated to the PM core by two counters, the -device's usage counter and the counter of 'active' children of the device. +device_run_wake() returns 'true' for the device and the device is put into a +low-power state during the execution of the suspend callback, it is expected +that remote wakeup will be enabled for the device. Generally, remote wakeup +should be enabled for all input devices put into low-power states at run time. + +The subsystem-level resume callback, if present, is _entirely_ _responsible_ for +handling the resume of the device as appropriate, which may, but need not +include executing the device driver's own ->runtime_resume() callback (from the +PM core's point of view it is not necessary to implement a ->runtime_resume() +callback in a device driver as long as the subsystem-level resume callback knows +what to do to handle the device). + + * Once the subsystem-level resume callback (or the driver resume callback, if + invoked directly) has completed successfully, the PM core regards the device + as fully operational, which means that the device _must_ be able to complete + I/O operations as needed. The runtime PM status of the device is then + 'active'. + + * If the resume callback returns an error code, the PM core regards this as a + fatal error and will refuse to run the helper functions described in Section + 4 for the device, until its status is directly set to either 'active', or + 'suspended' (by means of special helper functions provided by the PM core + for this purpose). + +The idle callback (a subsystem-level one, if present, or the driver one) is +executed by the PM core whenever the device appears to be idle, which is +indicated to the PM core by two counters, the device's usage counter and the +counter of 'active' children of the device. * If any of these counters is decreased using a helper function provided by the PM core and it turns out to be equal to zero, the other counter is checked. If that counter also is equal to zero, the PM core executes the - subsystem-level idle callback with the device as an argument. + idle callback with the device as its argument. -The action performed by a subsystem-level idle callback is totally dependent on -the subsystem in question, but the expected and recommended action is to check +The action performed by the idle callback is totally dependent on the subsystem +(or driver) in question, but the expected and recommended action is to check if the device can be suspended (i.e. if all of the conditions necessary for suspending the device are satisfied) and to queue up a suspend request for the -device in that case. The value returned by this callback is ignored by the PM -core. +device in that case. If there is no idle callback, or if the callback returns +0, then the PM core will attempt to carry out a runtime suspend of the device, +also respecting devices configured for autosuspend. In essence this means a +call to pm_runtime_autosuspend() (do note that drivers needs to update the +device last busy mark, pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(), to control the delay under +this circumstance). To prevent this (for example, if the callback routine has +started a delayed suspend), the routine must return a non-zero value. Negative +error return codes are ignored by the PM core. The helper functions provided by the PM core, described in Section 4, guarantee -that the following constraints are met with respect to the bus type's runtime -PM callbacks: +that the following constraints are met with respect to runtime PM callbacks for +one device: (1) The callbacks are mutually exclusive (e.g. it is forbidden to execute ->runtime_suspend() in parallel with ->runtime_resume() or with another @@ -212,7 +233,7 @@ defined in include/linux/pm.h: equal to zero); the initial value of it is 1 (i.e. runtime PM is initially disabled for all devices) - unsigned int runtime_error; + int runtime_error; - if set, there was a fatal error (one of the callbacks returned error code as described in Section 2), so the helper funtions will not work until this flag is cleared; this is the error code returned by the failing @@ -287,9 +308,10 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h: removing the device from device hierarchy int pm_runtime_idle(struct device *dev); - - execute the subsystem-level idle callback for the device; returns 0 on - success or error code on failure, where -EINPROGRESS means that - ->runtime_idle() is already being executed + - execute the subsystem-level idle callback for the device; returns an + error code on failure, where -EINPROGRESS means that ->runtime_idle() is + already being executed; if there is no callback or the callback returns 0 + then run pm_runtime_autosuspend(dev) and return its result int pm_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev); - execute the subsystem-level suspend callback for the device; returns 0 on @@ -380,11 +402,11 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h: int pm_runtime_disable(struct device *dev); - increment the device's 'power.disable_depth' field (if the value of that field was previously zero, this prevents subsystem-level runtime PM - callbacks from being run for the device), make sure that all of the pending - runtime PM operations on the device are either completed or canceled; - returns 1 if there was a resume request pending and it was necessary to - execute the subsystem-level resume callback for the device to satisfy that - request, otherwise 0 is returned + callbacks from being run for the device), make sure that all of the + pending runtime PM operations on the device are either completed or + canceled; returns 1 if there was a resume request pending and it was + necessary to execute the subsystem-level resume callback for the device + to satisfy that request, otherwise 0 is returned int pm_runtime_barrier(struct device *dev); - check if there's a resume request pending for the device and resume it @@ -412,6 +434,10 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h: 'power.runtime_error' is set or 'power.disable_depth' is greater than zero) + bool pm_runtime_active(struct device *dev); + - return true if the device's runtime PM status is 'active' or its + 'power.disable_depth' field is not equal to zero, or false otherwise + bool pm_runtime_suspended(struct device *dev); - return true if the device's runtime PM status is 'suspended' and its 'power.disable_depth' field is equal to zero, or false otherwise @@ -419,6 +445,10 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h: bool pm_runtime_status_suspended(struct device *dev); - return true if the device's runtime PM status is 'suspended' + bool pm_runtime_suspended_if_enabled(struct device *dev); + - return true if the device's runtime PM status is 'suspended' and its + 'power.disable_depth' field is equal to 1 + void pm_runtime_allow(struct device *dev); - set the power.runtime_auto flag for the device and decrease its usage counter (used by the /sys/devices/.../power/control interface to @@ -522,13 +552,11 @@ helper functions described in Section 4. In that case, pm_runtime_resume() should be used. Of course, for this purpose the device's runtime PM has to be enabled earlier by calling pm_runtime_enable(). -If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() callback runs -pm_runtime_suspend() or pm_runtime_idle() or their asynchronous counterparts, -they will fail returning -EAGAIN, because the device's usage counter is -incremented by the driver core before executing ->probe(). Still, it may be -desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() has finished, so the driver -core uses pm_runtime_put_sync() to invoke the subsystem-level idle callback for -the device at that time. +It may be desirable to suspend the device once ->probe() has finished. +Therefore the driver core uses the asyncronous pm_request_idle() to submit a +request to execute the subsystem-level idle callback for the device at that +time. A driver that makes use of the runtime autosuspend feature, may want to +update the last busy mark before returning from ->probe(). Moreover, the driver core prevents runtime PM callbacks from racing with the bus notifier callback in __device_release_driver(), which is necessary, because the @@ -621,19 +649,34 @@ place (in particular, if the system is not waking up from hibernation), it may be more efficient to leave the devices that had been suspended before the system suspend began in the suspended state. +To this end, the PM core provides a mechanism allowing some coordination between +different levels of device hierarchy. Namely, if a system suspend .prepare() +callback returns a positive number for a device, that indicates to the PM core +that the device appears to be runtime-suspended and its state is fine, so it +may be left in runtime suspend provided that all of its descendants are also +left in runtime suspend. If that happens, the PM core will not execute any +system suspend and resume callbacks for all of those devices, except for the +complete callback, which is then entirely responsible for handling the device +as appropriate. This only applies to system suspend transitions that are not +related to hibernation (see Documentation/power/devices.txt for more +information). + The PM core does its best to reduce the probability of race conditions between the runtime PM and system suspend/resume (and hibernation) callbacks by carrying out the following operations: - * During system suspend it calls pm_runtime_get_noresume() and - pm_runtime_barrier() for every device right before executing the - subsystem-level .suspend() callback for it. In addition to that it calls - pm_runtime_disable() for every device right after executing the - subsystem-level .suspend() callback for it. + * During system suspend pm_runtime_get_noresume() is called for every device + right before executing the subsystem-level .prepare() callback for it and + pm_runtime_barrier() is called for every device right before executing the + subsystem-level .suspend() callback for it. In addition to that the PM core + calls __pm_runtime_disable() with 'false' as the second argument for every + device right before executing the subsystem-level .suspend_late() callback + for it. - * During system resume it calls pm_runtime_enable() and pm_runtime_put_sync() - for every device right before and right after executing the subsystem-level - .resume() callback for it, respectively. + * During system resume pm_runtime_enable() and pm_runtime_put() are called for + every device right after executing the subsystem-level .resume_early() + callback and right after executing the subsystem-level .complete() callback + for it, respectively. 7. Generic subsystem callbacks @@ -641,18 +684,13 @@ Subsystems may wish to conserve code space by using the set of generic power management callbacks provided by the PM core, defined in driver/base/power/generic_ops.c: - int pm_generic_runtime_idle(struct device *dev); - - invoke the ->runtime_idle() callback provided by the driver of this - device, if defined, and call pm_runtime_suspend() for this device if the - return value is 0 or the callback is not defined - int pm_generic_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev); - invoke the ->runtime_suspend() callback provided by the driver of this - device and return its result, or return -EINVAL if not defined + device and return its result, or return 0 if not defined int pm_generic_runtime_resume(struct device *dev); - invoke the ->runtime_resume() callback provided by the driver of this - device and return its result, or return -EINVAL if not defined + device and return its result, or return 0 if not defined int pm_generic_suspend(struct device *dev); - if the device has not been suspended at run time, invoke the ->suspend() @@ -708,15 +746,12 @@ driver/base/power/generic_ops.c: int pm_generic_restore_noirq(struct device *dev); - invoke the ->restore_noirq() callback provided by the device's driver -These functions can be assigned to the ->runtime_idle(), ->runtime_suspend(), +These functions are the defaults used by the PM core, if a subsystem doesn't +provide its own callbacks for ->runtime_idle(), ->runtime_suspend(), ->runtime_resume(), ->suspend(), ->suspend_noirq(), ->resume(), ->resume_noirq(), ->freeze(), ->freeze_noirq(), ->thaw(), ->thaw_noirq(), -->poweroff(), ->poweroff_noirq(), ->restore(), ->restore_noirq() callback -pointers in the subsystem-level dev_pm_ops structures. - -If a subsystem wishes to use all of them at the same time, it can simply assign -the GENERIC_SUBSYS_PM_OPS macro, defined in include/linux/pm.h, to its -dev_pm_ops structure pointer. +->poweroff(), ->poweroff_noirq(), ->restore(), ->restore_noirq() in the +subsystem-level dev_pm_ops structure. Device drivers that wish to use the same function as a system suspend, freeze, poweroff and runtime suspend callback, and similarly for system resume, thaw, @@ -789,6 +824,16 @@ will behave normally, not taking the autosuspend delay into account. Similarly, if the power.use_autosuspend field isn't set then the autosuspend helper functions will behave just like the non-autosuspend counterparts. +Under some circumstances a driver or subsystem may want to prevent a device +from autosuspending immediately, even though the usage counter is zero and the +autosuspend delay time has expired. If the ->runtime_suspend() callback +returns -EAGAIN or -EBUSY, and if the next autosuspend delay expiration time is +in the future (as it normally would be if the callback invoked +pm_runtime_mark_last_busy()), the PM core will automatically reschedule the +autosuspend. The ->runtime_suspend() callback can't do this rescheduling +itself because no suspend requests of any kind are accepted while the device is +suspending (i.e., while the callback is running). + The implementation is well suited for asynchronous use in interrupt contexts. However such use inevitably involves races, because the PM core can't synchronize ->runtime_suspend() callbacks with the arrival of I/O requests. @@ -844,7 +889,7 @@ Here is a schematic pseudo-code example: foo->is_suspended = 0; pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(&foo->dev); if (foo->num_pending_requests > 0) - foo_process_requests(foo); + foo_process_next_request(foo); unlock(&foo->private_lock); return 0; } |