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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/devices.txt | 41 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt index ff923fe67d98..64565aac6e40 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt @@ -520,33 +520,20 @@ Support for power domains is provided through the pwr_domain field of struct device. This field is a pointer to an object of type struct dev_power_domain, defined in include/linux/pm.h, providing a set of power management callbacks analogous to the subsystem-level and device driver callbacks that are executed -for the given device during all power transitions, in addition to the respective -subsystem-level callbacks. Specifically, the power domain "suspend" callbacks -(i.e. ->runtime_suspend(), ->suspend(), ->freeze(), ->poweroff(), etc.) are -executed after the analogous subsystem-level callbacks, while the power domain -"resume" callbacks (i.e. ->runtime_resume(), ->resume(), ->thaw(), ->restore, -etc.) are executed before the analogous subsystem-level callbacks. Error codes -returned by the "suspend" and "resume" power domain callbacks are ignored. - -Power domain ->runtime_idle() callback is executed before the subsystem-level -->runtime_idle() callback and the result returned by it is not ignored. Namely, -if it returns error code, the subsystem-level ->runtime_idle() callback will not -be called and the helper function rpm_idle() executing it will return error -code. This mechanism is intended to help platforms where saving device state -is a time consuming operation and should only be carried out if all devices -in the power domain are idle, before turning off the shared power resource(s). -Namely, the power domain ->runtime_idle() callback may return error code until -the pm_runtime_idle() helper (or its asychronous version) has been called for -all devices in the power domain (it is recommended that the returned error code -be -EBUSY in those cases), preventing the subsystem-level ->runtime_idle() -callback from being run prematurely. - -The support for device power domains is only relevant to platforms needing to -use the same subsystem-level (e.g. platform bus type) and device driver power -management callbacks in many different power domain configurations and wanting -to avoid incorporating the support for power domains into the subsystem-level -callbacks. The other platforms need not implement it or take it into account -in any way. +for the given device during all power transitions, instead of the respective +subsystem-level callbacks. Specifically, if a device's pm_domain pointer is +not NULL, the ->suspend() callback from the object pointed to by it will be +executed instead of its subsystem's (e.g. bus type's) ->suspend() callback and +anlogously for all of the remaining callbacks. In other words, power management +domain callbacks, if defined for the given device, always take precedence over +the callbacks provided by the device's subsystem (e.g. bus type). + +The support for device power management domains is only relevant to platforms +needing to use the same device driver power management callbacks in many +different power domain configurations and wanting to avoid incorporating the +support for power domains into subsystem-level callbacks, for example by +modifying the platform bus type. Other platforms need not implement it or take +it into account in any way. Device Low Power (suspend) States |