[2/3,SCSI] : runtime resume parent for child's system-resume

[Patch description from Alan Stern]

If a child device was runtime-suspended when a system suspend began,
then there will be nothing to prevent its parent from
runtime-suspending as soon as it is woken up during the system resume.
Then when the time comes to resume the child, the resume will fail
because the parent is already back at low power.

On the other hand, there are some devices which should remain at low
power across an entire suspend-resume cycle.  The details depend on the
device and the platform.

This suggests that the PM core is not the right place to solve the
problem.  One possible solution is for the subsystem or device driver
to call pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->parent) at the start of the
system-resume procedure and pm_runtime_put_sync(dev->parent) at the
end.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> wrote:
> [Patch description from Alan Stern]
>
> If a child device was runtime-suspended when a system suspend began,
> then there will be nothing to prevent its parent from
> runtime-suspending as soon as it is woken up during the system resume.
> Then when the time comes to resume the child, the resume will fail
> because the parent is already back at low power.
>
> On the other hand, there are some devices which should remain at low
> power across an entire suspend-resume cycle.  The details depend on the
> device and the platform.
>
> This suggests that the PM core is not the right place to solve the
> problem.  One possible solution is for the subsystem or device driver
> to call pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->parent) at the start of the
> system-resume procedure and pm_runtime_put_sync(dev->parent) at the
> end.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>

Hi Alan,

May I add your SOB?

Thanks,
Lin Ming

> ---
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c |   11 ++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c
> index a633076..bf8bf79 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c
> @@ -72,8 +72,17 @@ static int scsi_bus_resume_common(struct device *dev)
>  {
>        int err = 0;
>
> -       if (scsi_is_sdev_device(dev))
> +       if (scsi_is_sdev_device(dev)) {
> +               /*
> +                * Parent device may have runtime suspended as soon as
> +                * it is woken up during the system resume.
> +                *
> +                * Resume it on behalf of child.
> +                */
> +               pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->parent);
>                err = scsi_dev_type_resume(dev);
> +               pm_runtime_put_sync(dev->parent);
> +       }
>
>        if (err == 0) {
>                pm_runtime_disable(dev);
> --
> 1.7.2.5
>
> --
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