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authorKevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>2011-08-05 21:45:20 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2011-08-05 21:45:20 +0200
commit02b26774afebb2d62695ba3230319d70d8c6cc2d (patch)
tree956c4056fcb42d2c2b2a75e20d3ad98f148865fc /Documentation/power
parentfe202fde50a986a8510c62a76dc8733c1a8fac86 (diff)
PM / Runtime: Allow _put_sync() from interrupts-disabled context
Currently the use of pm_runtime_put_sync() is not safe from interrupts-disabled context because rpm_idle() will release the spinlock and enable interrupts for the idle callbacks. This enables interrupts during a time where interrupts were expected to be disabled, and can have strange side effects on drivers that expected interrupts to be disabled. This is not a bug since the documentation clearly states that only _put_sync_suspend() is safe in IRQ-safe mode. However, pm_runtime_put_sync() could be made safe when in IRQ-safe mode by releasing the spinlock but not re-enabling interrupts, which is what this patch aims to do. Problem was found when using some buggy drivers that set pm_runtime_irq_safe() and used _put_sync() in interrupts-disabled context. Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com> Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index 14dd3c6ad97..4ce5450ab6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -54,11 +54,10 @@ 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
-(->runtime_idle() is still invoked the default way). 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.
+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
@@ -483,6 +482,7 @@ pm_runtime_suspend()
pm_runtime_autosuspend()
pm_runtime_resume()
pm_runtime_get_sync()
+pm_runtime_put_sync()
pm_runtime_put_sync_suspend()
5. Runtime PM Initialization, Device Probing and Removal