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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lockdep warning in urb.c:363 usb_submit_urb
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:37:36 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2004171928160.13245-100000@netrider.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3462492.idEHzggvYf@kreacher>

On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> There is one detail here that I missed, sorry about that.
> 
> Actually, the core can only set the runtime status to "active" for
> devices where dev_pm_skip_suspend() returns 'true'.
> 
> First, if the device is not "suspended", its status is "active" already
> anyway.
> 
> Second, if the device has SMART_SUSPEND clear, the driver may not expect
> its runtime status to change from "suspended" to "active" during system-wide
> resume-type transitions (the driver's system-wide PM callbacks may use
> the runtime status to determine what to do and changing the status this
> way may confuse that).
> 
> [Actually, the drivers that set neither SMART_SUSPEND nor MAY_SKIP_RESUME
>  may not expect the runtime status to change during system-wide resume-type
>  transitions at all, but there is the corner case when the driver can set
>  MAY_SKIP_RESUME without setting SMART_SUSPEND.  In that case its "noirq"
>  and "early" resume callbacks may be skipped and then it should expect
>  the runtime status to sometimes change from "active" to "suspended" during
>  RESUME transitions, but it may still not expect to see changes the other way
>  around, as in that case all of its callbacks are going to be invoked and
>  apply the internal runtime status handling mentioned above.]
> 
> So overall:
> 
>   At the start of the {resume,thaw,restore}_noirq phase, if
>   dev_pm_skip_resume() returns true ,then the core will set the
>   runtime status to "suspended".  Otherwise, if dev_pm_skip_suspend()
>   also returns true, then the core will set the runtime status to "active".
>   If this is not what the subsystem or driver wants, it must update the
>   runtime status itself.

Sigh.  The bug which prompted this whole thread was when I forgot to 
set the runtime PM status back to "active" in one of my drivers.  I was 
hoping the core could handle it for me automatically.

I guess the answer is always to set the SMART_SUSPEND flag.


> > > > For this to work properly, we will have to rely on subsystems/drivers
> > > > to call pm_runtime_resume() during the suspend/freeze transition if
> > > > SMART_SUSPEND is clear.
> > > 
> > > That has been the case forever, though.
> > 
> > I'm not so sure about that.  The existing PM core code doesn't ever get
> > into a situation where it tries to set a device's runtime status to
> > "active" while the parent's status is "suspended".
> 
> I'm assuming that you refer to the scenario below.
> 
> > > > Otherwise we could have the following scenario:
> > > > 
> > > > Device A has a child B, and both are runtime suspended when hibernation
> > > > starts.  Suppose that the SMART_SUSPEND flag is set for A but not for
> > > > B, and suppose that B's subsystem/driver neglects to call
> > > > pm_runtime_resume() during the FREEZE transition.  Then during the THAW
> > > > transition, dev_pm_skip_resume() will return "true" for A and "false"  
> > > > for B.  This will lead to an error when the core tries to set B's
> > > > runtime status to "active" while A's status is "suspended".
> 
> That cannot happen, because dev_pm_smart_suspend() also returns 'false' for B
> and so its runtime status will not be changed to "active".

Yes, your change to dev_pm_skip_resume() will prevent the problem from 
arising.


> BTW, I have updated my pm-sleep-core branch to reflect what appears to be
> the current state-of-the-art to me.
> 
> I'm going to post a v2 of this patch series over the weekend for reference.

Okay, I'll check it out.

By the way, if you don't mind I may want to do some editing of 
devices.rst.

Alan Stern



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-17 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-23 14:38 lockdep warning in urb.c:363 usb_submit_urb Qais Yousef
2020-03-23 15:36 ` Oliver Neukum
2020-03-23 15:54   ` Alan Stern
2020-03-23 16:02     ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-23 16:18     ` Oliver Neukum
2020-03-23 15:57   ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-23 16:20     ` Oliver Neukum
2020-03-23 17:29   ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-24  9:08     ` Oliver Neukum
2020-03-24 10:46       ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-24 13:20         ` Oliver Neukum
2020-03-24 13:43           ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-24 13:52             ` Alan Stern
2020-03-24 14:06               ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-24 15:56                 ` Alan Stern
2020-03-24 17:22                   ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-24 19:22                     ` Alan Stern
2020-03-25 15:00                       ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-25 20:49                         ` Alan Stern
2020-03-25 21:28                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-03-26 12:27                             ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-27 20:45                               ` Alan Stern
2020-03-28 14:15                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-03-28 19:58                                   ` Alan Stern
2020-03-29  9:16                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-03-29 13:56                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-03-29 16:27                                       ` Alan Stern
2020-04-03 15:04                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-03 16:13                                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-03 16:41                                           ` Alan Stern
2020-04-03 18:32                                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-03 20:15                                               ` Alan Stern
2020-04-06 16:45                                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-06 20:25                                                   ` Alan Stern
2020-04-09 18:45                                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-11  2:41                                                       ` Alan Stern
2020-04-13 21:32                                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-14 13:43                                                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-14 17:47                                                             ` Alan Stern
2020-04-15 22:20                                                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-16 15:18                                                                 ` Alan Stern
2020-04-17  9:57                                                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-17 16:10                                                                     ` Alan Stern
2020-04-17 21:54                                                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-17 23:37                                                                         ` Alan Stern [this message]
2020-04-18  9:40                                                                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-03 17:08                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-20 20:26                           ` Alan Stern
2020-04-21 11:15                             ` Qais Yousef
2020-03-24 13:47         ` Alan Stern

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