If the remote processor is offline, no need to recover anything, and pm_relax is needed to be called. summary from some discussion points: pm_stay_awake() is needed to stop and reverse the suspend process that is currently underway. RPROC_OFFLINE state indicate there is no recovery process is in progress and no chance to do the pm_relax. Because when recovering from crash, rproc->lock is held and state is RPROC_CRASHED -> RPROC_OFFLINE -> RPROC_RUNNING, and then unlock rproc->lock. When the state is in RPROC_OFFLINE it means separate request of rproc_stop was done and no need to hold the wakeup source in crash handler to recover any more. Changelog === V6 --- Address the comments. Drop the allocate ordered workqueue change. V5 --- Use goto out instead of directly call pm_relax and return. Suggested by Mathieu. Add new change with allocate ordered workqueue for allow only 1 active work. V4 --- Add pm relax when in RPROC_OFFLINE. previous discussion here: [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1bcd3fe8-f68d-ea7f-c0f9-68771e3421d5@xxxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-remoteproc/20221202094532.2925-1-quic_aiquny@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t Maria Yu (1): remoteproc: core: do pm_relax when in RPROC_OFFLINE state drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.17.1