[PATCH v1 1/1] thermal: imx: implement runtime PM support

[Petr Benes]

We dropped Michal from the loop. Adding him back.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 14:59, Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 01:55:32PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On 19/10/2021 13:51, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > > Hi Daniel,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 01:04:46PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > >> On 24/09/2021 13:50, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > >>> Starting with commit d92ed2c9d3ff ("thermal: imx: Use driver's local
> > >>> data to decide whether to run a measurement") this driver stared using
> > >>> irq_enabled flag to make decision to power on/off the thermal core. This
> > >>> triggered a regression, where after reaching critical temperature, alarm
> > >>> IRQ handler set irq_enabled to false,  disabled thermal core and was not
> > >>> able read temperature and disable cooling sequence.
> > >>>
> > >>> In case the cooling device is "CPU/GPU freq", the system will run with
> > >>> reduce performance until next reboot.
> > >>>
> > >>> To solve this issue, we need to move all parts implementing hand made
> > >>> runtime power management and let it handle actual runtime PM framework.
> > >>>
> > >>> Fixes: d92ed2c9d3ff ("thermal: imx: Use driver's local data to decide whether to run a measurement")
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel at pengutronix.de>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for this fix.
> > >>
> > >> Petr or Oleksij,
> > >>
> > >> could you confirm it is tested and working without CONFIG_PM ?
> > >
> > > Petr was right, no it is not working without PM.
> > Ok, thanks.
> >
> > I suppose the fix is related to the initialization of the sensor which
> > should be enabled with/out pm_runtime, right ?
>
> No, i did sanity check on pm_runtime_put() within the probe. Without PM
> it will properly return ENOSYS, so I aborted the probe. Looks like I
> should ignore return value on this function like every driver is doing
> it.
>
> >
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