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SubjectRe: [linux-pm] calling runtime PM from system PM methods
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Well, that was kind of difficult to debug, but not impossible. :-)
>
> The problem here turns out to be related to the SCSI subsystem.
> Namely, when the AHCI controller is suspended, it uses the SCSI error
> handling mechanism for scheduling the suspend operation (I'm still at a little
> loss why that is necessary, but Tejun says it is :-)). This (after several
> convoluted operations) causes scsi_error_handler() to be woken up and
> it calls scsi_autopm_get_host(shost), which returns error code (-EAGAIN),
> because the runtime PM has been disabled at the host level.

Oh no. I was afraid something like this was going to happen
eventually.

It's clear that we don't want runtime PM kicking in while the SCSI
error handler is running. That's why I added the
scsi_autopm_get_host(). But this also means we will run into trouble
if the error handler needs to be used during a power transition.

> This happens because scsi_autopm_get_host() uses
> pm_runtime_get_sync(&shost->shost_gendev) and returns error code when
> shost_gendev.power.disable_depth is nonzero.

Maybe get_sync doesn't need to return an error if the runtime status is
already ACTIVE. I'm not sure about this; it's just an idea...

> So, the problem is either in scsi_autopm_get_host() that should check the
> error code returned by pm_runtime_get_sync(), or in rpm_suspend() that should
> return 0 if RPM_GET_PUT is set in flags. I'm inclined to say that the
> problem should be fixed in rpm_suspend() and hence the appended patch that
> works (well, it probably should be split into three separate patches).

Maybe it would be good enough if the error handler ended up doing a
get_noresume instead of get_sync? Although I could be wrong, I don't
think scsi_error_handler() will ever run in a situation where the host
adapter is not runtime-active.

Tejun, does that sound right to you?

Alan Stern



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