PM / core: Add SMART_SUSPEND driver flag

Define and document a SMART_SUSPEND flag to instruct bus types and PM
domains that the system suspend callbacks provided by the driver can
cope with runtime-suspended devices, so from the driver's perspective
it should be safe to leave devices in runtime suspend during system
suspend.

Setting that flag may also cause middle-layer code (bus types,
PM domains etc.) to skip invocations of the ->suspend_late and
->suspend_noirq callbacks provided by the driver if the device
is in runtime suspend at the beginning of the "late" phase of
the system-wide suspend transition, in which case the driver's
system-wide resume callbacks may be invoked back-to-back with
its ->runtime_suspend callback, so the driver has to be able to
cope with that too.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-10-26 12:12:08 +02:00
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@@ -766,6 +766,26 @@ the state of devices (possibly except for resuming them from runtime suspend)
from their ``->prepare`` and ``->suspend`` callbacks (or equivalent) *before*
invoking device drivers' ``->suspend`` callbacks (or equivalent).
Some bus types and PM domains have a policy to resume all devices from runtime
suspend upfront in their ``->suspend`` callbacks, but that may not be really
necessary if the driver of the device can cope with runtime-suspended devices.
The driver can indicate that by setting ``DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND`` in
:c:member:`power.driver_flags` at the probe time, by passing it to the
:c:func:`dev_pm_set_driver_flags` helper. That also may cause middle-layer code
(bus types, PM domains etc.) to skip the ``->suspend_late`` and
``->suspend_noirq`` callbacks provided by the driver if the device remains in
runtime suspend at the beginning of the ``suspend_late`` phase of system-wide
suspend (or in the ``poweroff_late`` phase of hibernation), when runtime PM
has been disabled for it, under the assumption that its state should not change
after that point until the system-wide transition is over. If that happens, the
driver's system-wide resume callbacks, if present, may still be invoked during
the subsequent system-wide resume transition and the device's runtime power
management status may be set to "active" before enabling runtime PM for it,
so the driver must be prepared to cope with the invocation of its system-wide
resume callbacks back-to-back with its ``->runtime_suspend`` one (without the
intervening ``->runtime_resume`` and so on) and the final state of the device
must reflect the "active" status for runtime PM in that case.
During system-wide resume from a sleep state it's easiest to put devices into
the full-power state, as explained in :file:`Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt`.
Refer to that document for more information regarding this particular issue as