From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> Commit e1866b33b1e89f077b7132daae3dfd9a594e9a1a (PM / Runtime: Rework runtime PM handling during driver removal) forgot to update the documentation in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt to match the new code in drivers/base/dd.c. Update that documentation to match the code it describes. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt @@ -513,13 +513,29 @@ helper functions described in Section 4. should be used. Of course, for this purpose the device's runtime PM has to be enabled earlier by calling pm_runtime_enable(). -If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() or ->remove() callback runs +If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() callback runs pm_runtime_suspend() or pm_runtime_idle() or their asynchronous counterparts, they will fail returning -EAGAIN, because the device's usage counter is -incremented by the core before executing ->probe() and ->remove(). Still, it -may be desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() or ->remove() has -finished, so the PM core uses pm_runtime_put_sync() to invoke the -subsystem-level idle callback for the device at that time. +incremented by the driver core before executing ->probe(). Still, it may be +desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() has finished, so the driver +core uses pm_runtime_put_sync() to invoke the subsystem-level idle callback for +the device at that time. + +Moreover, the driver core prevents runtime PM callbacks from racing with the bus +notifier callback in __device_release_driver(), which is necessary, because the +notifier is used by some subsystems to carry out operations affecting the +runtime PM functionality. It does so by calling pm_runtime_get_sync() before +driver_sysfs_remove() and the BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER notifications. This +resumes the device if it's in the suspended state and prevents it from +being suspended again while those routines are being executed. + +To allow bus types and drivers to put devices into the suspended state by +calling pm_runtime_suspend() from their ->remove() routines, the driver core +executes pm_runtime_put_sync() after running the BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER +notifications in __device_release_driver(). This requires bus types and +drivers to make their ->remove() callbacks avoid races with runtime PM directly, +but also it allows of more flexibility in the handling of devices during the +removal of their drivers. The user space can effectively disallow the driver of the device to power manage it at run time by changing the value of its /sys/devices/.../power/control _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
