Update documentation to reflect the changes made to support IRQ safe PM domains. Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since: - Updated the text per Rafael's suggestion. - Updated commit text with signed-off-by --- Documentation/power/devices.txt | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt index 8ba6625..73ddea3 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt @@ -607,7 +607,9 @@ individually. Instead, a set of devices sharing a power resource can be put into a low-power state together at the same time by turning off the shared power resource. Of course, they also need to be put into the full-power state together, by turning the shared power resource on. A set of devices with this -property is often referred to as a power domain. +property is often referred to as a power domain. A power domain may also be +nested inside another power domain. The nested domain is referred to as the +sub-domain of the parent domain. Support for power domains is provided through the pm_domain field of struct device. This field is a pointer to an object of type struct dev_pm_domain, @@ -629,6 +631,16 @@ support for power domains into subsystem-level callbacks, for example by modifying the platform bus type. Other platforms need not implement it or take it into account in any way. +Devices may be defined as IRQ-safe which indicates to the PM core that their +runtime PM callbacks may be invoked with disabled interrupts (see +Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt for more information). If an IRQ-safe +device belongs to a PM domain, the runtime PM of the domain will be +disallowed, unless the domain itself is defined as IRQ-safe. However, it +makes sense to define a PM domain as IRQ-safe only if all the devices in it +are IRQ-safe. Moreover, if an IRQ-safe domain has a parent domain, the runtime +PM of the parent is only allowed if the parent itself is IRQ-safe too with the +additional restriction that all child domains of an IRQ-safe parent must also +be IRQ-safe. Device Low Power (suspend) States --------------------------------- -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
