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Re: [PATCHv4 2/4] serial: imx: add runtime pm support

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Hi,

On Friday, August 14, 2015 09:37:46 PM Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> This change introduces the runtime pm support on imx serial
> driver. The objective is to be able to idle the uart
> port whenever it is not in use while still being able
> to wake it up when needed. The key changes in this patch are:
> 1. Move the clock handling to runtime pm. Both, ipg and per,
> are now handled in the suspend and resume callbacks. Only
> enabling and disabling the clocks are handled in runtime
> suspend and resume, so we are able to use runtime pm
> in IRQ context.
> 2. Clocks are prepared in probe and unprepared in remove,
> so we do not need to prepare (may sleep) in runtime pm.
> 3. We mark the device activity based on uart and console
> callbacks. Whenever the device is needed and we want to
> access registers, we runtime_pm_get and then mark its
> last usage when we are done. This is done also across
> IRQs and DMA callbacks.
> 4. We reuse the infrastructure in place for suspend and
> resume, so we do not need to redo wakeup configuration,
> or context save and restore.
> 
> After this change, the clocks are still sane, in the sense
> of having balanced clock prepare and enable.

The clock changes in this patch seem to make this driver
non-functional with CONFIG_PM=n.  Have you tested your
changes with CONFIG_PM=n?

Generally the driver should not depend on PM support to
enable its clocks.  We had this issue in few Exynos-specific
drivers not that long time ago..

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

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[PATCHv4 0/4] serial: imx: rework pm support and add runtime pm Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 06:40 +0200
  [PATCHv4 1/4] serial: imx: add a flag to indicate we are in the suspend path Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 06:40 +0200
  [PATCHv4 2/4] serial: imx: add runtime pm support Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 06:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCHv4 2/4] serial: imx: add runtime pm support Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> - 2015-08-17 17:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCHv4 2/4] serial: imx: add runtime pm support Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 19:30 +0200

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