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SubjectRe: platform/i2c busses: pm runtime and system sleep
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On Thursday, December 16, 2010, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There seem to be some differences between the generic ops and the i2c
> and platform busses' implementations of the interaction between runtime
> PM and system sleep:
>
> (1) The platform bus does not implement the
> don't-call-pm->suspend()-if pm_runtime_suspended()-returns-true
> functionality implemented by the generic ops and i2c.
>
> (2) Both I2C and platform do not set the device as active when a
> pm->resume callback exists and it succeeds.
>
> This seems to have been done in i2c until recently, but has been
> removed by 753419f59e ("i2c: Fix for suspend/resume issue"). It
> seems to me that this removal is incorrect, and instead the real
> problem with the implementation was that it set the device as
> active even if no resume callback existed, whereas it should only
> do so when it exists and returns zero, like the generic ops.
>
> Are these divergences from the generic ops to be considered as bugs?

I think so. I'm not sure about (1), because someone may already depend on
that behavior, but (2) looks like a bug to me.

> Atleast (2) will cause devices which use UNIVERSAL_DEV_PM_OPS to have
> incorrect runtime pm state after a resume from system sleep.
>
> If so, before I send patches to fix them: can it be assumed that only
> drivers using dev_pm_ops (and not the legacy ops of these busses) will
> need the interactions between runtime PM and system sleep as done in the
> generic ops?

Yes, you can make this assumption safely. The drivers that don't use
dev_pm_ops can't support runtime PM at all.

> This would mean that simple busses could simply use the
> generic ops like below instead of duplicating their behaviour:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> index 6b4cc56..46117e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static int i2c_device_pm_resume(struct device *dev)
> int ret;
>
> if (pm)
> - ret = pm->resume ? pm->resume(dev) : 0;
> + ret = pm_generic_resume(dev);
> else
> ret = i2c_legacy_resume(dev);

Thanks,
Rafael


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