Re: dev_pm_ops and PCMCIA sockets

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On Monday 15 March 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > attempting to use the "new-style" dev_pm_ops to handle the suspend / resume
> > needs of PCMCIA sockets gives me a headache. Maybe you can assist me in
> > doing it properly?
> > 
> > (1) PCMCIA/CardBus sockets all share one class:
> > 	 struct class pcmcia_socket_class
> >     The "class" devices (which are struct *device now) are registered in
> >     drivers/pcmcia/cs.c . The functional ordering is:
> > 
> > 
> > 	struct device *dev	-- some PCMCIA/CardBus bridge
> 
> On some bus, such as PCI, right?
> 
> > 	struct device *dev	-- of class pcmcia_socket_class; represents
> > 				   the socket. One bridge may have mutliple
> > 				   sockets.
> 
> This is the "class" device, not registered on any bus, right?
> 
> > 	struct device *dev	-- of bus "pcmcia" or "pci"; represents the
> > 				   PCMCIA/CardBus card. One card is in one
> > 				   socket; but one card may have multiple
> > 				   "pcmcia" or "pci" devices.
> > 
> > 
> > (2) For suspend, we need the following order:
> > 
> > 	1) CardBus and PCMCIA cards themselves;
> > 	   IRQs may be on.
> > 
> > 	   For CardBus, this is well handled by the PCI subsystem; for
> > 	   PCMCIA cards, we currently rely on an old-style "suspend"
> > 	   callback in struct bus_type .
> > 
> > 	2) the PCMCIA/CardBus socket ("class devices"); IRQs may be on
> > 
> > 	   Currently, we rely on an ugly, custom callback mechanism. Quoting
> > 	   drivers/pcmcia/cs.c:
> > 
> > 	    * socket drivers are expected to use the following callbacks in
> > 	    * their .drv struct:
> > 	    *  - pcmcia_socket_dev_suspend
> > 	    *  - pcmcia_socket_dev_resume
> > 	    * These functions check for the appropriate struct pcmcia_soket arrays,
> > 	    * and pass them to the low-level functions pcmcia_{suspend,resume}_socket
> 
> Okay, these callbacks could theoretically be put into a class-level
> dev_pm_ops structure.
> 
> > 	3) The PCMCIA/CardBus bridge devices; both with IRQs on and off
> > 
> > 	   For example, yenta_socket appropriately uses "struct dev_pm_ops".
> > 
> > 
> > (3) For resume, it's a bit more complicated:
> > 
> > 	1) The PCMCIA/CardBus bridge devices with IRQs off
> > 
> > 	2) The PCMCIA/CardBus sockets ("class devices") with IRQs off
> 
> It's a little odd that sockets need to have a noirq resume stage but
> not a noirq suspend stage.
> 
> > 	3) the PCMCIA/CardBus bridge devices with IRQs on
> > 
> > 	4) The PCMCIA/CardBus sockets ("class devices") with IRQs on
> > 
> > 	5) CardBus and PCMCIA cards themselves
> > 
> > 
> > (4) A first attempt to use struct dev_pm_ops in struct class pcmcia_socket_class
> > 
> > + const struct dev_pm_ops pcmcia_socket_pm_ops = {
> > + 	/* dev_suspend, dev_resume may be called with IRQs enabled */
> > + 	SET_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS(pcmcia_socket_classdev_suspend,
> > + 				pcmcia_socket_classdev_resume)
> > + 
> > + 	/* early resume must be called with IRQs disabled */
> > + 	.resume_noirq = pcmcia_socket_classdev_resume_noirq,
> > + 	.thaw_noirq = pcmcia_socket_classdev_resume_noirq,
> > + 	.restore_noirq = pcmcia_socket_classdev_resume_noirq,
> > + };
> > 
> >     lead to the following issues:
> > 
> >      a) resume_noirq never got called. Haven't tried thaw_noirq and
> > 	restore_noirq so far.
> 
> They won't be called either.  I don't know whether this counts as a bug 
> or a feature, but the fact is that currently the PM core doesn't invoke 
> the noirq callbacks for classes or types -- only for buses.
> 
> If Rafael agrees that it is a bug, then it should be easy enough to 
> fix.

This was intentional, because there were no classes imlementing the "noirq"
callbacks in the "legacy" model.

We can add that just fine if necessary.

Rafael
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