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diff --git a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt index 646a89e0c07d..4342acbeee10 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt @@ -123,9 +123,10 @@ please refer directly to the source code for more information about it. Subsystem-Level Methods ----------------------- The core methods to suspend and resume devices reside in struct dev_pm_ops -pointed to by the pm member of struct bus_type, struct device_type and -struct class. They are mostly of interest to the people writing infrastructure -for buses, like PCI or USB, or device type and device class drivers. +pointed to by the ops member of struct dev_pm_domain, or by the pm member of +struct bus_type, struct device_type and struct class. They are mostly of +interest to the people writing infrastructure for platforms and buses, like PCI +or USB, or device type and device class drivers. Bus drivers implement these methods as appropriate for the hardware and the drivers using it; PCI works differently from USB, and so on. Not many people @@ -251,18 +252,29 @@ various phases always run after tasks have been frozen and before they are unfrozen. Furthermore, the *_noirq phases run at a time when IRQ handlers have been disabled (except for those marked with the IRQ_WAKEUP flag). -All phases use bus, type, or class callbacks (that is, methods defined in -dev->bus->pm, dev->type->pm, or dev->class->pm). These callbacks are mutually -exclusive, so if the device type provides a struct dev_pm_ops object pointed to -by its pm field (i.e. both dev->type and dev->type->pm are defined), the -callbacks included in that object (i.e. dev->type->pm) will be used. Otherwise, -if the class provides a struct dev_pm_ops object pointed to by its pm field -(i.e. both dev->class and dev->class->pm are defined), the PM core will use the -callbacks from that object (i.e. dev->class->pm). Finally, if the pm fields of -both the device type and class objects are NULL (or those objects do not exist), -the callbacks provided by the bus (that is, the callbacks from dev->bus->pm) -will be used (this allows device types to override callbacks provided by bus -types or classes if necessary). +All phases use PM domain, bus, type, or class callbacks (that is, methods +defined in dev->pm_domain->ops, dev->bus->pm, dev->type->pm, or dev->class->pm). +These callbacks are regarded by the PM core as mutually exclusive. Moreover, +PM domain callbacks always take precedence over bus, type and class callbacks, +while type callbacks take precedence over bus and class callbacks, and class +callbacks take precedence over bus callbacks. To be precise, the following +rules are used to determine which callback to execute in the given phase: + + 1. If dev->pm_domain is present, the PM core will attempt to execute the + callback included in dev->pm_domain->ops. If that callback is not + present, no action will be carried out for the given device. + + 2. Otherwise, if both dev->type and dev->type->pm are present, the callback + included in dev->type->pm will be executed. + + 3. Otherwise, if both dev->class and dev->class->pm are present, the + callback included in dev->class->pm will be executed. + + 4. Otherwise, if both dev->bus and dev->bus->pm are present, the callback + included in dev->bus->pm will be executed. + +This allows PM domains and device types to override callbacks provided by bus +types or device classes if necessary. These callbacks may in turn invoke device- or driver-specific methods stored in dev->driver->pm, but they don't have to. |