On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 23:00 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, November 19, 2012 11:31:01 AM Alan Stern wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Huang Ying wrote: > > > > > For unbound PCI devices, what we need is: > > > > > > - Always in D0 state, because some devices does not work again after > > > being put into D3 by the PCI bus. > > > > > > - In SUSPENDED state if allowed, so that the parent devices can still > > > be put into low power state. > > > > > > To satisfy these requirement, the runtime PM for the unbound PCI > > > devices are disabled and set to SUSPENDED state. One issue of this > > > solution is that the PCI devices will be put into SUSPENDED state even > > > if the SUSPENDED state is forbidden via the sysfs interface > > > (.../power/control) of the device. This is not an issue for most > > > devices, because most PCI devices are not used at all if unbounded. > > > But there are exceptions. For example, unbound VGA card can be used > > > for display, but suspend its parents make it stop working. > > > > > > To fix the issue, we keep the runtime PM enabled when the PCI devices > > > are unbound. But the runtime PM callbacks will do nothing if the PCI > > > devices are unbound. This way, we can put the PCI devices into > > > SUSPENDED state without put the PCI devices into D3 state. > > > > > > Known issue: after some changing, pci_dev->driver is used to indicate > > > whether the PCI devices are bound and whether the runtime PM callbacks > > > should do nothing. Maybe it is better to use a dedicated flag such as > > > .skip_rtpm_callbacks. That may improve code readability. > > > > I think it's okay like this, especially if you add a comment in > > pci_runtime_suspend, pci_runtime_resume, and pci_runtime_idle > > explaining that when pci_dev->driver isn't set, the device should > > always remain in D0 regardless of the runtime status. > > Yes, I agree with Alan. Please add comments as Alan's suggesting and it > should be fine. Sure. Will do that. Best Regards, Huang Ying -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
