Re: [PATCH 1/2] mmc: tmio: Further fixup runtime PM management at remove

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Ulf,

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 5:24 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
> Before calling tmio_mmc_host_probe(), the caller is required to enable
> clocks for its device, as to make it accessible when reading/writing
> registers during probe.
>
> Therefore, the responsibility to disable these clocks, in the error path of
> ->probe() and during ->remove(), is better managed outside
> tmio_mmc_host_remove(). As a matter of fact, callers of
> tmio_mmc_host_remove() already expects this to be the behaviour.
>
> However, there's a problem with tmio_mmc_host_remove() when the Kconfig
> option, CONFIG_PM, is set. More precisely, tmio_mmc_host_remove() may then
> disable the clock via runtime PM, which leads to clock enable/disable
> imbalance problems, when the caller of tmio_mmc_host_remove() also tries to
> disable the same clocks.
>
> To solve the problem, let's make sure tmio_mmc_host_remove() leaves the
> device with clocks enabled, but also make sure to disable the IRQs, as we
> normally do at ->runtime_suspend().
>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
> Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

(on R-Car Gen2, various Gen3, SH-Mobile AG5, R-Mobile A1, R-Mobile APE6,
 RZ/A1, and RZ/A2)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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