Re: Runtime PM support in serial core?

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On 2016-08-24 15:16:08 [+0000], Shevchenko, Andriy wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 17:03 +0200, bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On 2016-08-24 14:56:12 [+0000], Shevchenko, Andriy wrote:
> 
> > > Today I discovered that runtime PM rather broken in 8250 _by
> > > design_.
> 
> 
> > >  It
> > > definitely requires irq_safe flag to be set in runtime PM. But that
> > > flag
> > > demolishes an effort since it keeps parent (and thus all other
> > > devices
> > > which parent needs to be on) always on.
> 
> ^^^^^ (1)
> 
> > > 
> > > The question is is somebody is going to fix this and when?
> > 
> > Why is it broken? 
> 
> I meant that without irq_safe flag set there are too many places where
> "sleep while in atomic" happens. On the other hand the irq_safe flag
> prevents parent to go to suspend.

This must be new then. I don't remember _any_ "sleeping while atomic"
warnings back then. Maybe Tony knows something. Maybe it does not occur
on TI's PM code. I would have to reanimate my beagle bone to check that.

Sebastian
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