[PATCH 2/2] firmware: arm_scmi: power_control: Set SCMI_SYSPOWER_IDLE in pm resume

[Sudeep Holla]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 01:23:10AM +0000, Peng Fan wrote:
> > 
> > Just to summarise my understanding here at very high level, the issue
> > exists as the second notification by an agent to the Linux to suspend
> > the system wakes up the system from suspend state. Since the
> > interrupts are enabled before the thaw_processes() (which eventually
> > continues the execution of scmi_suspend_work_func() to set the state
> > to SCMI_SYSPOWER_IDLE, the scmi_userspace_notifier() is executed
> > much before and ends up ignoring the request as the state is still not
> > set to SCMI_SYSPOWER_IDLE. There is a race which your patch is
> > addressing.
> 
> Thanks for writing this down, It is very correct and clear.
> 

While I am not against adding bus PM ops as it can be useful elsewhere,
just wonder if this usecase is a good use of it. Does setting the state
before the pm_suspend() call suffice. I still need to think through the
possible race with that solution, but just asking you to check if that
helps.

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Regards,
Sudeep