The device link allows the pm framework to tie the supplier and consumer. So, whenever the consumer is powered-on, the supplier is powered-on first. There are however cases in which the consumer wants to power-on the supplier, but not itself. E.g., A Graphics or multimedia driver wants to power-on the SMMU to unmap a buffer and finish the TLB operations without powering on itself. Some of these unmap requests are coming from the user space when the controller itself is not powered-up, and it can be huge penalty in terms of power and latency to power-up the graphics/mm controllers. There can be an argument that the supplier should handle this case on its own and there should not be a need for the consumer to power-on the supplier. But as discussed on the thread [1] about ARM-SMMU runtime pm, we don't want to introduce runtime pm calls in atomic paths, such as in arm_smmu_unmap. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9827825/ Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c index 027d159ac381..af169304ca13 100644 --- a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c +++ b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c @@ -1578,6 +1578,7 @@ void pm_runtime_get_suppliers(struct device *dev) device_links_read_unlock(idx); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_runtime_get_suppliers); /** * pm_runtime_put_suppliers - Drop references to supplier devices. @@ -1596,6 +1597,7 @@ void pm_runtime_put_suppliers(struct device *dev) device_links_read_unlock(idx); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_runtime_put_suppliers); void pm_runtime_new_link(struct device *dev) { -- QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- 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
