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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt | 22 |
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt index edeecd447d23..b96098ccfe69 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt @@ -75,12 +75,14 @@ you should do the following: # echo platform > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state -Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait 5 seconds, -resume devices and thaw processes. If "platform" is written to +Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait a few +seconds (5 by default, but configurable by the suspend.pm_test_delay module +parameter), resume devices and thaw processes. If "platform" is written to /sys/power/pm_test , then after suspending devices the kernel will additionally invoke the global control methods (eg. ACPI global control methods) used to -prepare the platform firmware for hibernation. Next, it will wait 5 seconds and -invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global methods used to cancel hibernation etc. +prepare the platform firmware for hibernation. Next, it will wait a +configurable number of seconds and invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global +methods used to cancel hibernation etc. Writing "none" to /sys/power/pm_test causes the kernel to switch to the normal hibernation/suspend operations. Also, when open for reading, /sys/power/pm_test diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt index 8afb236ca765..e51564c1a140 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Indirect operating mode control. Consumer drivers can request a change in their supply regulator operating mode by calling :- -int regulator_set_optimum_mode(struct regulator *regulator, int load_uA); +int regulator_set_load(struct regulator *regulator, int load_uA); This will cause the core to recalculate the total load on the regulator (based on all its consumers) and change operating mode (if necessary and permitted) diff --git a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt index 2f9c5a5fcb25..8afb29a8604a 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt @@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ but also to IPIs and to some other special-purpose interrupts. The IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag is used to indicate that to the IRQ subsystem when requesting a special-purpose interrupt. It causes suspend_device_irqs() to -leave the corresponding IRQ enabled so as to allow the interrupt to work all -the time as expected. +leave the corresponding IRQ enabled so as to allow the interrupt to work as +expected during the suspend-resume cycle, but does not guarantee that the +interrupt will wake the system from a suspended state -- for such cases it is +necessary to use enable_irq_wake(). Note that the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag affects the entire IRQ and not just one user of it. Thus, if the IRQ is shared, all of the interrupt handlers installed @@ -110,8 +112,9 @@ any special interrupt handling logic for it to work. IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and enable_irq_wake() ------------------------------------- -There are no valid reasons to use both enable_irq_wake() and the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND -flag on the same IRQ. +There are very few valid reasons to use both enable_irq_wake() and the +IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag on the same IRQ, and it is never valid to use both for the +same device. First of all, if the IRQ is not shared, the rules for handling IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupts (interrupt handlers are invoked after suspend_device_irqs()) are @@ -120,4 +123,13 @@ handlers are not invoked after suspend_device_irqs()). Second, both enable_irq_wake() and IRQF_NO_SUSPEND apply to entire IRQs and not to individual interrupt handlers, so sharing an IRQ between a system wakeup -interrupt source and an IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupt source does not make sense. +interrupt source and an IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupt source does not generally +make sense. + +In rare cases an IRQ can be shared between a wakeup device driver and an +IRQF_NO_SUSPEND user. In order for this to be safe, the wakeup device driver +must be able to discern spurious IRQs from genuine wakeup events (signalling +the latter to the core with pm_system_wakeup()), must use enable_irq_wake() to +ensure that the IRQ will function as a wakeup source, and must request the IRQ +with IRQF_COND_SUSPEND to tell the core that it meets these requirements. If +these requirements are not met, it is not valid to use IRQF_COND_SUSPEND. |