[RFC PATCH 0/8] PM / Domains: Add support for removing PM domains

Jon Hunter jonathanh at nvidia.com
Mon Jun 6 06:19:56 PDT 2016


Hi Ulf,

On 28/03/16 13:38, Jon Hunter wrote:
> Hi Uffe,
> 
> On 04/03/16 12:33, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 4 March 2016 at 12:23, Jon Hunter <jonathanh at nvidia.com> wrote:
>>> In order to safely remove PM domains there are a few changes that need to be
>>> made to ensure that no one is holding an external reference to a PM domain
>>> after it has been removed. One solution, implemented here, solves this by
>>> eliminating external references to PM domain. Another alternative would be
>>> to employ some reference counting for the PM domains, however, I did not see
>>> a good reason for allowing external references in the first place (as always
>>> there could be something that I have over-looked!).
>>>
>>> Jon Hunter (8):
>>>   PM / Domains: Add new helper functions for device-tree
>>>   ARM: EXYNOS: Remove calls to of_genpd_get_from_provider()
>>>   staging: board: Remove calls to of_genpd_get_from_provider()
>>>   PM / Domains: Don't expose generic_pm_domain structure
>>>   PM / Domains: Verify the PM domain is present when adding a provider
>>>   PM / Domains: Remove a provider by referencing the data pointer
>>>   PM / Domains: Prepare for adding support to remove PM domains
>>>   PM / Domains: Add support for removing PM domains
>>>
>>>  arch/arm/mach-exynos/pm_domains.c |  23 +--
>>>  drivers/base/power/domain.c       | 324 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>>  drivers/staging/board/board.c     |   9 +-
>>>  include/linux/pm_domain.h         |  55 ++++---
>>>  4 files changed, 348 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.1.4
>>>
>>
>> Jon, thanks for posting this!
>> My initial impressions is the I like the ideas for where you moves this.
>>
>> I will review it in more details as soon as I can (travelling next week).
> 
> Just wanted to see if you have had chance to look at this yet? Not urgent.

Any feedback on this?

FYI, patch #2 does not apply cleanly on the latest -next but the others
should.

Cheers
Jon

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