On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >> I'm afraid you can't call pm_runtime_get_sync() from these methods, as
>> >> they may be called from interrupt context.
>> >
>> > Ouch. I know the clock framework has prepare/enable separated with
>> > context, but with the irqchip callbacks I suppose no such separation
>>
>> It's not the clock operations, but the pm_runtime operations that cannot be
>> called from interrupt context.
>
> In fact the pm_runtime operations _can_ be called from interrupt
> context, provided the driver has first invoked pm_runtime_irq_safe().
> Of course, this requires that none of the runtime-PM callback routines
> ever sleep or perform a blocking operation.
>
> This is all explained in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt (search for
> "irq_safe").
Perhaps that can help. We'll have to give it a try...
I've always found this a bit strange when PM Domains are involved:
pm_runtime_irq_safe(dev) applies to device dev, while the actual callbacks
belong to the PM Domain code (the device's driver doesn't have any).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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