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From: "stern@rowland.harvard.edu" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: "Sverdlin, Alexander \(Nokia - DE/Ulm\)"  <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Cc: "dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn" <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: ks-sa - fix runtime pm imbalance on error
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 12:45:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200520164556.GC11084@rowland.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab400cba7523e69b15360b0928cb8fa8b9432d86.camel@nokia.com>

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:42:17PM +0000, Sverdlin, Alexander (Nokia - DE/Ulm) wrote:
> Hello Dinghao,
> 
> On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 21:29 +0800, Dinghao Liu wrote:
> > pm_runtime_get_sync() increments the runtime PM usage counter even
> > the call returns an error code. Thus a pairing decrement is needed
> > on the error handling path to keep the counter balanced.
> 
> I believe, this is the wrong place for such kind of fix.
> pm_runtime_get_sync() has obviously a broken semantics with regards to
> your observation but no other driver does what you propose.

Look again.  For example, see what usb_autoresume_device() in 
drivers/usb/core/driver.c does.

You really shouldn't make generalizations such as "no other driver does 
..." unless you have read the code for every driver in the kernel.

Alan Stern

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-20 13:29 [PATCH] hwrng: ks-sa - fix runtime pm imbalance on error Dinghao Liu
2020-05-20 15:42 ` Sverdlin, Alexander (Nokia - DE/Ulm)
2020-05-20 16:45   ` stern [this message]
2020-05-28  6:55     ` Herbert Xu
2020-05-28  7:13       ` dinghao.liu
2020-05-28 15:39       ` stern
2020-05-21  6:21   ` dinghao.liu

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