[PATCH v3 0/9] PM / Domains: Fix race conditions during boot

[Kevin Hilman]

Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 09:12:39AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> writes:
>
>> > There may be more than one device in a PM domain which then will be
>> > probed at different points in time.
>
>> > Depending on timing and runtime PM support, in for the device related
>> > driver/subsystem, a PM domain may be advised to power off after a
>> > successful probe sequence.
>
>> > A general requirement for a device within a PM domain, is that the
>> > PM domain must stay powered during the probe sequence. To cope with
>> > such requirement, let's add two new APIs, dev_pm_domain_get|put().
>
>> I'm confused. Why arent' pm_runtime_get*() and pm_runtime_put*() working?
>
>> What's not explained here (or what I'm not understanding) is why a PM
>> domain is powering off if it has active devices.
>
> The issue AIUI is what happens during system boot - if one device in a
> domain probes and marks itself runtime idle then that will trigger
> domain powerdown even if there is another device in the domain that
> hasn't yet been probed.  This can cause undesirable glitches (or worse)
> during boot depending on what's getting powered down.

I'm not quite seeing how this series fixes that problem.

Looking at platform devices in PATCH 4/9, the new _get() and _put() are
still happening around ->probe(), so if a platform device runtime suspends
after probe, don't we still have a PM domain that can turn off?

Kevin