[RFC/NOT FOR MERGING 3/5] arm: omap: introduce other PM methods

Kevin Hilman khilman at deeprootsystems.com
Thu Oct 18 13:07:31 EDT 2012


Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com> writes:

> current omap_device PM implementation defines
> omap-specific *_noirq methods but uses the
> generic versions for all other PM methods.
>
> As it turns out, if a device decides to implement
> non-runtime PM callbacks, we might fall into a
> situation where the hwmod is still idled which
> will generate an abort exception when we try
> to access device's address space while clocks
> are still gated.

Please explain in more detail how this could happen.

Kevin

> In order to solve that, we implement all other
> methods taking into account that devices might
> not implement those, in which case we return
> early.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>



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