Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] PM / core: Add SMART_SUSPEND driver flag

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Nov 06 2017 - 06:23:51 EST


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 28 October 2017 at 00:22, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Define and document a SMART_SUSPEND flag to instruct bus types and PM
>> domains that the system suspend callbacks provided by the driver can
>> cope with runtime-suspended devices, so from the driver's perspective
>> it should be safe to leave devices in runtime suspend during system
>> suspend.
>>
>> Setting that flag may also cause middle-layer code (bus types,
>> PM domains etc.) to skip invocations of the ->suspend_late and
>> ->suspend_noirq callbacks provided by the driver if the device
>> is in runtime suspend at the beginning of the "late" phase of
>> the system-wide suspend transition, in which case the driver's
>> system-wide resume callbacks may be invoked back-to-back with
>> its ->runtime_suspend callback, so the driver has to be able to
>> cope with that too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If not too late:
>
> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Not too late, thanks!

I'll be sending the next batch of this shortly. :-)