There may be an issue when the user issue "reboot" command, then the device has shut down its hardware, after that, this runtime-pm featured device's driver will probably be scheduled to do its suspend routine, and at its suspend routine, it may access hardware, but the device has already shutdown physically, then the system hang may be occurred. I ran out this issue with a auto-suspend supported USB devices, like 3G modem, keyboard. The usb runtime suspend routine may be scheduled after the usb controller has been shut down, and the usb runtime suspend routine will try to suspend its roothub(controller), it will access register, then the system hang occurs as the controller is shutdown. Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c index acb3f83..a439227 100644 --- a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c +++ b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c @@ -150,6 +150,13 @@ static int rpm_check_suspend_allowed(struct device *dev) retval = -EAGAIN; else if (dev->power.runtime_status == RPM_SUSPENDED) retval = 1; + /* + * If the device has already been shut down, DO NOT + * send suspend request. + */ + else if (list_empty(&dev->kobj.entry)) { + retval = -ESHUTDOWN; + } return retval; } -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm