From: s.nawrocki@samsung•com (Sylwester Nawrocki)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC v3 1/2] PM / Domains: Extend API pm_genpd_dev_need_restore to use restore types
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:05:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5492A6DE.5020704@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5418986.E58ik2Q1Hm@vostro.rjw.lan>
On 18/12/14 01:58, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> What's needed to solve this problem is a generalized way to have runtime
>>>> > >> PM dependencies between devices. Runtime PM already automatically
>>>> > >> handles parent devices as one type of dependent device (e.g. a parent
>>>> > >> device needs to be runtime PM resumed before its child.) So what's
>>>> > >> needed is a generic way to other PM dependencies with the runtime PM
>>>> > >> core (not the genpd core.)
>>> > >
>>> > > Considering the example above with three devices, device D1 and D2 are
>>> > > passive components in this power domain. These devices only need to
>>> > > know the state changes of the power domains but would not control the
>>> > > power domain themselves nor put forth constraints in the power domain
>>> > > state changes. So I did not clearly understand as to how this example
>>> > > could be solved by introducing changes in runtime PM core.
>> >
>> > Your solution only solves the problems for devices managed by genpd.
>> >
>> > If I understood your example correctly, what you really want to solve
>> > this problem more generically is to be able to tell the runtime PM core
>> > that D3 has a dependency on D1 and D2. Then, whenver the runtime PM
>> > core is doing get/put operations for D3, it needs to also do them for D1
>> > and D2.
Indeed, I think it would solve most of the problems if we were able to
model the PM dependencies between devices which would then be handled
in the PM core. I recall something like this has been proposed a while
ago [1].
>> > This will accomplish the same as your proposed approach, but work for
>> > any devices in any PM domains.
>
> Plus, it is not limited to runtime PM, really. It affects system suspend
> too.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/26/485
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Regards,
Sylwester
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-18 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-13 16:51 [PATCH RFC v3 1/2] PM / Domains: Extend API pm_genpd_dev_need_restore to use restore types Amit Daniel Kachhap
2014-12-13 16:51 ` [PATCH RFC v3 2/2] clk: samsung: Add PM runtime support for clocks Amit Daniel Kachhap
2014-12-16 11:10 ` [PATCH RFC v3 1/2] PM / Domains: Extend API pm_genpd_dev_need_restore to use restore types Marek Szyprowski
2014-12-16 22:10 ` Kevin Hilman
2014-12-17 14:36 ` amit daniel kachhap
2014-12-17 18:25 ` Kevin Hilman
2014-12-18 0:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-12-18 10:05 ` Sylwester Nawrocki [this message]
2014-12-19 2:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-12-17 2:43 ` amit daniel kachhap
2014-12-17 13:08 ` Marek Szyprowski
2014-12-17 14:56 ` amit daniel kachhap
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