Re: [Resend][PATCH] PCI PM: Read device power state from register after updating it

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On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:48:40 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> 
> After attempting to change the power state of a PCI device
> pci_raw_set_power_state() doesn't check if the value it wrote into
> the device's PCI_PM_CTRL register has been stored in there, but
> unconditionally modifies the device's current_state field to reflect
> the change.  This may cause problems to happen if the power state of
> the device hasn't been changed in fact, because it will make the PCI
> PM core make a wrong assumption.
> 
> To prevent such situations from happening modify
> pci_raw_set_power_state() so that it reads the device's PCI_PM_CTRL
> register after writing into it and uses the value read from the
> register to update the device's current_state field.  Also make it
> print a message saying that the device refused to change its power
> state as requested (returning an error code in such cases would cause
> suspend regressions to appear on some systems, where device drivers'
> suspend routines return error codes if pci_set_power_state() fails).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

Applied to my for-linus branch, thanks.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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