On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > > Introduce a framework for representing off-tree PM dependencies > between devices. > > There are PM dependencies between devices that are not reflected by > the structure of the device tree. In other words, as far as PM is > concerned, a device may depend on some other devices which are not > its children and none of which is its parent. > > Every such dependency involves two devices, one of which is a > "master" and the other of which is a "slave", meaning that the > "slave" have to be suspended before the "master" and cannot be > woken up before it. Thus every device can be given two lists of > "dependency objects", one for the dependencies where the device is > the "master" and the other for the dependencies where the device is > the "slave". Then, each "dependency object" can be represented as > Index: linux-2.6/drivers/base/power/common.c > =================================================================== > --- /dev/null > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/base/power/common.c > +/** > + * device_for_each_master - Execute given function for each master of a device. > + * @slave: Device whose masters to execute the function for. > + * @data: Data pointer to pass to the function. > + * @fn: Function to execute for each master of @slave. > + * > + * The function is executed for the parent of the device, if there is one, and > + * for each device connected to it via a pm_link object where @slave is the > + * "slave". > + */ > +int device_for_each_master(struct device *slave, void *data, > + int (*fn)(struct device *dev, void *data)) > +{ > + struct pm_link *link; > + int idx; > + int error = 0; > + > + if (slave->parent) { > + error = fn(slave->parent, data); > + if (error) > + return error; > + } > + > + idx = srcu_read_lock(&pm_link_ss); > + > + list_for_each_entry(link, &slave->power.slave_links, slave_hook) { This needs to use list_for_each_entry_rcu. Likewise in device_for_each_slave(). Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html