Re: [linux-pm] runtime_pm_get_sync() from ISR with IRQs disabled?

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Friday, September 24, 2010, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> ...
> > >
> > > You're trying to fight the runtime-PM design instead of using it as it 
> > > was intended.  We already have an API for starting a resume from 
> > > interrupt context, and that's what you should use.
> > 
> > It may seem like I'm trying to fight the design, but I'm actually trying
> > to find ways to use it.  I want to use the API (and we're using it
> > successfully in most of our drivers now.)  The problem is only in a few
> > of these corner cases where using it introduces significant changes from
> > previous behavior like introducing long, unbounded windows for missed
> > interrupts.
> 
> This really sounds to me like you need _noirq() runtime PM callbacks
> and some framework around them.
> 
> I'm not fundamentally against that, but it will require some time to introduce,
> if we decide that it's really necessary.
> 
> I need to think a bit more about that, thanks for the example.

How about adding another flag to the dev_pm_info structure, to indicate 
that the runtime callbacks may be called in interrupt context?

Maybe that will lead to problems I haven't thought of.  But if it seems 
okay to you, I can code it up easily enough.

Alan Stern

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