Hi, Linux already supports runtime PM of disks (drivers/scsi/sd.c) so that after certain amount of idle time the disk is suspended automatically. This series extends the support to AHCI host controllers. Whenever SATA ports are determined to be idle (all children are runtime suspended) the host controller is also suspended. On recent Intel CPUs like Broxton this allows the CPU to go low power idle states like S0ix runtime (given that all necessary blocks are also in their correesponding low power states). Patches [1-2/7] fix a lockup where disk is runtime suspended and the system is put to sleep. They are independent of the rest of the series. Patch [3/7] makes it possible for SATA ports to be runtime suspended when there is not disk connected. For example on Lenovo Yoga 900 there are two SATA ports which only one of them has disk connected. This patch allows the host controller to runtime suspend whenever the disk is idle. Rest of the patches bring runtime PM support for the AHCI driver. By default runtime PM is blocked and needs to be unblocked from userspace (following what other PCI drivers do). I've used following script to unblock runtime PM for the whole stack (with 15 seconds of idle time): ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ #!/bin/sh TIMEOUT=${1:-15} HOST=$(lspci -D | grep "SATA controller" | cut -f 1 -d ' ') DISK=sda # Enable runtime PM for all SATA ports for port in /sys/bus/pci/devices/$HOST/ata*; do echo auto > $port/power/control done # Then for the host controller echo auto > /sys/bus/pci/devices/$HOST/power/control # And last for the disk echo auto > /sys/block/$DISK/device/power/control echo $(($TIMEOUT * 1000)) > /sys/block/$DISK/device/power/autosuspend_delay_ms ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ Mika Westerberg (7): block: Add blk_set_runtime_active() scsi: Set request queue runtime PM status back to active on resume scsi: Drop runtime PM usage count after host is added ahci: Cache host controller version ahci: Convert driver to use modern PM hooks ahci: Add functions to manage runtime PM of AHCI ports ahci: Add runtime PM support for the host controller block/blk-core.c | 24 ++++++++++++ drivers/ata/ahci.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- drivers/ata/ahci.h | 1 + drivers/ata/libahci.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 7 ++++ drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c | 10 +++++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 + 7 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) -- 2.7.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html