Re: [PATCH 0/12] PM / sleep: Driver flags for system suspend/resume

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On 19 October 2017 at 19:21, Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/19/2017 03:33 AM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 18 October 2017 at 23:48, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 9:45:11 PM CEST Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/18/2017 09:11 AM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>>>> That's the point. We know pm_runtime_force_* works nicely for the
>>>>>>> trivial middle-layer cases.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In which cases the middle-layer callbacks don't exist, so it's just like
>>>>>> reusing driver callbacks directly. :-)
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to ask you clarify one point here and provide some info which I hope can be useful -
>>>> what's exactly means  "trivial middle-layer cases"?
>>>>
>>>> Is it when systems use "drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c - Generic clock
>>>> manipulation PM callbacks" as dev_pm_domain (arm davinci/keystone), or OMAP
>>>> device framework struct dev_pm_domain omap_device_pm_domain
>>>> (arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c) or static const struct dev_pm_ops
>>>> tegra_aconnect_pm_ops?
>>>>
>>>> if yes all above have PM runtime callbacks.
>>>
>>> Trivial ones don't actually do anything meaningful in their PM callbacks.
>>>
>>> Things like the platform bus type, spi bus type, i2c bus type and similar.
>>>
>>> If the middle-layer callbacks manipulate devices in a significant way, then
>>> they aren't trivial.
>>
>> I fully agree with Rafael's description above, but let me also clarify
>> one more thing.
>>
>> We have also been discussing PM domains as being trivial and
>> non-trivial. In some statements I even think the PM domain has been a
>> part the middle-layer terminology, which may have been a bit
>> confusing.
>>
>> In this regards as we consider genpd being a trivial PM domain, those
>> examples your bring up above is too me also examples of trivial PM
>> domains. Especially because they don't deal with wakeups, as that is
>> taken care of by the drivers, right!?
>
> Not directly, for example, omap device framework has noirq callback implemented
> which forcibly disable all devices which are not PM runtime suspended.
> while doing this it calls drivers PM .runtime_suspend() which may return
> non 0 value and in this case device will be left enabled (powered) at suspend for
> wake up purposes (see _od_suspend_noirq()).
>

Yeah, I had that feeling that omap has some trickyness going on. :-)

I sure that can be fixed in the omap PM domain, although
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