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<title>PM: Make ACPI wakeup from S5 work again when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is unset</title>
<updated>2011-03-07T23:05:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-24T10:10:01+00:00</published>
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commit 805bdaec1a44155db35f6ee5410d6bbc365324a8 upstream.

Commit 074037e (PM / Wakeup: Introduce wakeup source objects and
event statistics (v3)) caused ACPI wakeup to only work if
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is set, but it also worked for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP unset
before.  This can be fixed by making device_set_wakeup_enable(),
device_init_wakeup() and device_may_wakeup() work in the same way
as before commit 074037e when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is unset.

Reported-and-tested-by: Justin Maggard &lt;jmaggard10@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 805bdaec1a44155db35f6ee5410d6bbc365324a8 upstream.

Commit 074037e (PM / Wakeup: Introduce wakeup source objects and
event statistics (v3)) caused ACPI wakeup to only work if
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is set, but it also worked for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP unset
before.  This can be fixed by making device_set_wakeup_enable(),
device_init_wakeup() and device_may_wakeup() work in the same way
as before commit 074037e when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is unset.

Reported-and-tested-by: Justin Maggard &lt;jmaggard10@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>PM / Runtime: Implement autosuspend support</title>
<updated>2010-10-16T23:57:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-25T21:35:21+00:00</published>
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This patch (as1427) implements the "autosuspend" facility for runtime
PM.  A few new fields are added to the dev_pm_info structure and
several new PM helper functions are defined, for telling the PM core
whether or not a device uses autosuspend, for setting the autosuspend
delay, and for marking periods of device activity.

Drivers that do not want to use autosuspend can continue using the
same helper functions as before; their behavior will not change.  In
addition, drivers supporting autosuspend can also call the old helper
functions to get the old behavior.

The details are all explained in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
and Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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This patch (as1427) implements the "autosuspend" facility for runtime
PM.  A few new fields are added to the dev_pm_info structure and
several new PM helper functions are defined, for telling the PM core
whether or not a device uses autosuspend, for setting the autosuspend
delay, and for marking periods of device activity.

Drivers that do not want to use autosuspend can continue using the
same helper functions as before; their behavior will not change.  In
addition, drivers supporting autosuspend can also call the old helper
functions to get the old behavior.

The details are all explained in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
and Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM / Runtime: Add no_callbacks flag</title>
<updated>2010-10-16T23:57:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-25T21:35:15+00:00</published>
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Some devices, such as USB interfaces, cannot be power-managed
independently of their parents, i.e., they cannot be put in low power
while the parent remains at full power.  This patch (as1425) creates a
new "no_callbacks" flag, which tells the PM core not to invoke the
runtime-PM callback routines for the such devices but instead to
assume that the callbacks always succeed.  In addition, the
non-debugging runtime-PM sysfs attributes for the devices are removed,
since they are pretty much meaningless.

The advantage of this scheme comes not so much from avoiding the
callbacks themselves, but rather from the fact that without the need
for a process context in which to run the callbacks, more work can be
done in interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Some devices, such as USB interfaces, cannot be power-managed
independently of their parents, i.e., they cannot be put in low power
while the parent remains at full power.  This patch (as1425) creates a
new "no_callbacks" flag, which tells the PM core not to invoke the
runtime-PM callback routines for the such devices but instead to
assume that the callbacks always succeed.  In addition, the
non-debugging runtime-PM sysfs attributes for the devices are removed,
since they are pretty much meaningless.

The advantage of this scheme comes not so much from avoiding the
callbacks themselves, but rather from the fact that without the need
for a process context in which to run the callbacks, more work can be
done in interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: Fix potential issue with failing asynchronous suspend</title>
<updated>2010-10-16T23:57:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-22T20:10:57+00:00</published>
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There is a potential issue with the asynchronous suspend code that
a device driver suspending asynchronously may not notice that it
should back off.  There are two failing scenarions, (1) when the
driver is waiting for a driver suspending synchronously to complete
and that second driver returns error code, in which case async_error
won't be set and the waiting driver will continue suspending and (2)
after the driver has called device_pm_wait_for_dev() and the waited
for driver returns error code, in which case the caller of
device_pm_wait_for_dev() will not know that there was an error and
will continue suspending.

To fix this issue make __device_suspend() set async_error, so
async_suspend() doesn't need to set it any more, and make
device_pm_wait_for_dev() return async_error, so that its callers
can check whether or not they should continue suspending.

No more changes are necessary, since device_pm_wait_for_dev() is
not used by any drivers' suspend routines.

Reported-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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There is a potential issue with the asynchronous suspend code that
a device driver suspending asynchronously may not notice that it
should back off.  There are two failing scenarions, (1) when the
driver is waiting for a driver suspending synchronously to complete
and that second driver returns error code, in which case async_error
won't be set and the waiting driver will continue suspending and (2)
after the driver has called device_pm_wait_for_dev() and the waited
for driver returns error code, in which case the caller of
device_pm_wait_for_dev() will not know that there was an error and
will continue suspending.

To fix this issue make __device_suspend() set async_error, so
async_suspend() doesn't need to set it any more, and make
device_pm_wait_for_dev() return async_error, so that its callers
can check whether or not they should continue suspending.

No more changes are necessary, since device_pm_wait_for_dev() is
not used by any drivers' suspend routines.

Reported-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / Wakeup: Introduce wakeup source objects and event statistics (v3)</title>
<updated>2010-10-16T23:57:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-22T20:09:10+00:00</published>
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Introduce struct wakeup_source for representing system wakeup sources
within the kernel and for collecting statistics related to them.
Make the recently introduced helper functions pm_wakeup_event(),
pm_stay_awake() and pm_relax() use struct wakeup_source objects
internally, so that wakeup statistics associated with wakeup devices
can be collected and reported in a consistent way (the definition of
pm_relax() is changed, which is harmless, because this function is
not called directly by anyone yet).  Introduce new wakeup-related
sysfs device attributes in /sys/devices/.../power for reporting the
device wakeup statistics.

Change the global wakeup events counters event_count and
events_in_progress into atomic variables, so that it is not necessary
to acquire a global spinlock in pm_wakeup_event(), pm_stay_awake()
and pm_relax(), which should allow us to avoid lock contention in
these functions on SMP systems with many wakeup devices.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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Introduce struct wakeup_source for representing system wakeup sources
within the kernel and for collecting statistics related to them.
Make the recently introduced helper functions pm_wakeup_event(),
pm_stay_awake() and pm_relax() use struct wakeup_source objects
internally, so that wakeup statistics associated with wakeup devices
can be collected and reported in a consistent way (the definition of
pm_relax() is changed, which is harmless, because this function is
not called directly by anyone yet).  Introduce new wakeup-related
sysfs device attributes in /sys/devices/.../power for reporting the
device wakeup statistics.

Change the global wakeup events counters event_count and
events_in_progress into atomic variables, so that it is not necessary
to acquire a global spinlock in pm_wakeup_event(), pm_stay_awake()
and pm_relax(), which should allow us to avoid lock contention in
these functions on SMP systems with many wakeup devices.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / Runtime: Add runtime PM statistics (v3)</title>
<updated>2010-07-19T00:01:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-19T00:01:06+00:00</published>
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In order for PowerTOP to be able to report how well the new runtime PM is
working for the various drivers, the kernel needs to export some basic
statistics in sysfs.

This patch adds two sysfs files in the runtime PM domain that expose the
total time a device has been active, and the time a device has been
suspended.

With this PowerTOP can compute the activity percentage

Active %age = 100 * (delta active) / (delta active + delta suspended)

and present the information to the user.

I've written the PowerTOP code (slated for version 1.12) already, and the
output looks like this:

Runtime Device Power Management statistics
Active  Device name
 10.0%	06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

[version 2: fix stat update bugs noticed by Alan Stern]
[version 3: rebase to -next and move the sysfs declaration]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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In order for PowerTOP to be able to report how well the new runtime PM is
working for the various drivers, the kernel needs to export some basic
statistics in sysfs.

This patch adds two sysfs files in the runtime PM domain that expose the
total time a device has been active, and the time a device has been
suspended.

With this PowerTOP can compute the activity percentage

Active %age = 100 * (delta active) / (delta active + delta suspended)

and present the information to the user.

I've written the PowerTOP code (slated for version 1.12) already, and the
output looks like this:

Runtime Device Power Management statistics
Active  Device name
 10.0%	06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

[version 2: fix stat update bugs noticed by Alan Stern]
[version 3: rebase to -next and move the sysfs declaration]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM: Make it possible to avoid races between wakeup and system sleep</title>
<updated>2010-07-18T23:58:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-05T20:43:53+00:00</published>
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One of the arguments during the suspend blockers discussion was that
the mainline kernel didn't contain any mechanisms making it possible
to avoid races between wakeup and system suspend.

Generally, there are two problems in that area.  First, if a wakeup
event occurs exactly when /sys/power/state is being written to, it
may be delivered to user space right before the freezer kicks in, so
the user space consumer of the event may not be able to process it
before the system is suspended.  Second, if a wakeup event occurs
after user space has been frozen, it is not generally guaranteed that
the ongoing transition of the system into a sleep state will be
aborted.

To address these issues introduce a new global sysfs attribute,
/sys/power/wakeup_count, associated with a running counter of wakeup
events and three helper functions, pm_stay_awake(), pm_relax(), and
pm_wakeup_event(), that may be used by kernel subsystems to control
the behavior of this attribute and to request the PM core to abort
system transitions into a sleep state already in progress.

The /sys/power/wakeup_count file may be read from or written to by
user space.  Reads will always succeed (unless interrupted by a
signal) and return the current value of the wakeup events counter.
Writes, however, will only succeed if the written number is equal to
the current value of the wakeup events counter.  If a write is
successful, it will cause the kernel to save the current value of the
wakeup events counter and to abort the subsequent system transition
into a sleep state if any wakeup events are reported after the write
has returned.

[The assumption is that before writing to /sys/power/state user space
will first read from /sys/power/wakeup_count.  Next, user space
consumers of wakeup events will have a chance to acknowledge or
veto the upcoming system transition to a sleep state.  Finally, if
the transition is allowed to proceed, /sys/power/wakeup_count will
be written to and if that succeeds, /sys/power/state will be written
to as well.  Still, if any wakeup events are reported to the PM core
by kernel subsystems after that point, the transition will be
aborted.]

Additionally, put a wakeup events counter into struct dev_pm_info and
make these per-device wakeup event counters available via sysfs,
so that it's possible to check the activity of various wakeup event
sources within the kernel.

To illustrate how subsystems can use pm_wakeup_event(), make the
low-level PCI runtime PM wakeup-handling code use it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: markgross &lt;markgross@thegnar.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
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One of the arguments during the suspend blockers discussion was that
the mainline kernel didn't contain any mechanisms making it possible
to avoid races between wakeup and system suspend.

Generally, there are two problems in that area.  First, if a wakeup
event occurs exactly when /sys/power/state is being written to, it
may be delivered to user space right before the freezer kicks in, so
the user space consumer of the event may not be able to process it
before the system is suspended.  Second, if a wakeup event occurs
after user space has been frozen, it is not generally guaranteed that
the ongoing transition of the system into a sleep state will be
aborted.

To address these issues introduce a new global sysfs attribute,
/sys/power/wakeup_count, associated with a running counter of wakeup
events and three helper functions, pm_stay_awake(), pm_relax(), and
pm_wakeup_event(), that may be used by kernel subsystems to control
the behavior of this attribute and to request the PM core to abort
system transitions into a sleep state already in progress.

The /sys/power/wakeup_count file may be read from or written to by
user space.  Reads will always succeed (unless interrupted by a
signal) and return the current value of the wakeup events counter.
Writes, however, will only succeed if the written number is equal to
the current value of the wakeup events counter.  If a write is
successful, it will cause the kernel to save the current value of the
wakeup events counter and to abort the subsequent system transition
into a sleep state if any wakeup events are reported after the write
has returned.

[The assumption is that before writing to /sys/power/state user space
will first read from /sys/power/wakeup_count.  Next, user space
consumers of wakeup events will have a chance to acknowledge or
veto the upcoming system transition to a sleep state.  Finally, if
the transition is allowed to proceed, /sys/power/wakeup_count will
be written to and if that succeeds, /sys/power/state will be written
to as well.  Still, if any wakeup events are reported to the PM core
by kernel subsystems after that point, the transition will be
aborted.]

Additionally, put a wakeup events counter into struct dev_pm_info and
make these per-device wakeup event counters available via sysfs,
so that it's possible to check the activity of various wakeup event
sources within the kernel.

To illustrate how subsystems can use pm_wakeup_event(), make the
low-level PCI runtime PM wakeup-handling code use it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: markgross &lt;markgross@thegnar.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: Provide generic subsystem-level callbacks</title>
<updated>2010-03-06T20:28:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-06T20:28:37+00:00</published>
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There are subsystems whose power management callbacks only need to
invoke the callbacks provided by device drivers.  Still, their system
sleep PM callbacks should play well with the runtime PM callbacks,
so that devices suspended at run time can be left in that state for
a system sleep transition.

Provide a set of generic PM callbacks for such subsystems and
define convenience macros for populating dev_pm_ops structures.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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There are subsystems whose power management callbacks only need to
invoke the callbacks provided by device drivers.  Still, their system
sleep PM callbacks should play well with the runtime PM callbacks,
so that devices suspended at run time can be left in that state for
a system sleep transition.

Provide a set of generic PM callbacks for such subsystems and
define convenience macros for populating dev_pm_ops structures.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: Allow device drivers to use dpm_wait()</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T19:39:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-27T22:47:38+00:00</published>
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There are some dependencies between devices (in particular, between
EHCI USB controllers and their OHCI/UHCI siblings) which are not
reflected by the structure of the device tree.  With synchronous
suspend and resume these dependencies are taken into accout
automatically, because the devices in question are always registered
in the right order, but to meet these constraints with asynchronous
suspend and resume the drivers of these devices will need to use
dpm_wait() in their suspend/resume routines, so introduce a helper
function allowing them to do that.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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There are some dependencies between devices (in particular, between
EHCI USB controllers and their OHCI/UHCI siblings) which are not
reflected by the structure of the device tree.  With synchronous
suspend and resume these dependencies are taken into accout
automatically, because the devices in question are always registered
in the right order, but to meet these constraints with asynchronous
suspend and resume the drivers of these devices will need to use
dpm_wait() in their suspend/resume routines, so introduce a helper
function allowing them to do that.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: Asynchronous suspend and resume of devices</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T19:39:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-23T21:23:32+00:00</published>
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Theoretically, the total time of system sleep transitions (suspend
to RAM, hibernation) can be reduced by running suspend and resume
callbacks of device drivers in parallel with each other.  However,
there are dependencies between devices such that we're not allowed
to suspend the parent of a device before suspending the device
itself.  Analogously, we're not allowed to resume a device before
resuming its parent.

The most straightforward way to take these dependencies into accout
is to start the async threads used for suspending and resuming
devices at the core level, so that async_schedule() is called for
each suspend and resume callback supposed to be executed
asynchronously.

For this purpose, introduce a new device flag, power.async_suspend,
used to mark the devices whose suspend and resume callbacks are to be
executed asynchronously (ie. in parallel with the main suspend/resume
thread and possibly in parallel with each other) and helper function
device_enable_async_suspend() allowing one to set power.async_suspend
for given device (power.async_suspend is unset by default for all
devices).  For each device with the power.async_suspend flag set the
PM core will use async_schedule() to execute its suspend and resume
callbacks.

The async threads started for different devices as a result of
calling async_schedule() are synchronized with each other and with
the main suspend/resume thread with the help of completions, in the
following way:
(1) There is a completion, power.completion, for each device object.
(2) Each device's completion is reset before calling async_schedule()
    for the device or, in the case of devices with the
    power.async_suspend flags unset, before executing the device's
    suspend and resume callbacks.
(3) During suspend, right before running the bus type, device type
    and device class suspend callbacks for the device, the PM core
    waits for the completions of all the device's children to be
    completed.
(4) During resume, right before running the bus type, device type and
    device class resume callbacks for the device, the PM core waits
    for the completion of the device's parent to be completed.
(5) The PM core completes power.completion for each device right
    after the bus type, device type and device class suspend (or
    resume) callbacks executed for the device have returned.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Theoretically, the total time of system sleep transitions (suspend
to RAM, hibernation) can be reduced by running suspend and resume
callbacks of device drivers in parallel with each other.  However,
there are dependencies between devices such that we're not allowed
to suspend the parent of a device before suspending the device
itself.  Analogously, we're not allowed to resume a device before
resuming its parent.

The most straightforward way to take these dependencies into accout
is to start the async threads used for suspending and resuming
devices at the core level, so that async_schedule() is called for
each suspend and resume callback supposed to be executed
asynchronously.

For this purpose, introduce a new device flag, power.async_suspend,
used to mark the devices whose suspend and resume callbacks are to be
executed asynchronously (ie. in parallel with the main suspend/resume
thread and possibly in parallel with each other) and helper function
device_enable_async_suspend() allowing one to set power.async_suspend
for given device (power.async_suspend is unset by default for all
devices).  For each device with the power.async_suspend flag set the
PM core will use async_schedule() to execute its suspend and resume
callbacks.

The async threads started for different devices as a result of
calling async_schedule() are synchronized with each other and with
the main suspend/resume thread with the help of completions, in the
following way:
(1) There is a completion, power.completion, for each device object.
(2) Each device's completion is reset before calling async_schedule()
    for the device or, in the case of devices with the
    power.async_suspend flags unset, before executing the device's
    suspend and resume callbacks.
(3) During suspend, right before running the bus type, device type
    and device class suspend callbacks for the device, the PM core
    waits for the completions of all the device's children to be
    completed.
(4) During resume, right before running the bus type, device type and
    device class resume callbacks for the device, the PM core waits
    for the completion of the device's parent to be completed.
(5) The PM core completes power.completion for each device right
    after the bus type, device type and device class suspend (or
    resume) callbacks executed for the device have returned.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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