Re: [PATCH] spi: tegra20-slink: Fix runtime PM imbalance on error

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/05/2020 09:04, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:50 AM Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> pm_runtime_get_sync() increments the runtime PM usage counter even
>> when it returns an error code. Thus a pairing decrement is needed on
>> the error handling path to keep the counter balanced.
> 
> ...
> 
>>         ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(&pdev->dev);
>>         if (ret < 0) {
>>                 dev_err(&pdev->dev, "pm runtime get failed, e = %d\n", ret);
> 
>> +               pm_runtime_put(&pdev->dev);
> 
> For all your patches, please, double check what you are proposing.
> 
> Here, I believe, the correct one will be _put_noidle().
> 
> AFAIU you are not supposed to actually suspend the device in case of error.
> But I might be mistaken, thus see above.
> 
>>                 goto exit_pm_disable;
>>         }


Is there any reason why this is not handled in pm_runtime_get itself?
Jon

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