From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "stern@rowland.harvard.edu" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Sverdlin,
Alexander (Nokia - DE/Ulm)" <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: ks-sa - fix runtime pm imbalance on error
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 16:55:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200528065519.GA26960@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520164556.GC11084@rowland.harvard.edu>
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:45:56PM -0400, stern@rowland.harvard.edu wrote:
> 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.
However, there seems to be some disagreement as to what to do
when pm_runtime_get_sync fails. Your driver chooses to call
put_sync while others prefer pm_runtime_put_noidle (e.g., see
drivers/base/power/runtime.c).
This API does seem to be in a bit of a mess.
Cheers,
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-28 6:56 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
2020-05-28 6:55 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2020-05-28 7:13 ` dinghao.liu
2020-05-28 15:39 ` stern
2020-05-21 6:21 ` dinghao.liu
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