[PATCH v3 1/2] pm: runtime: Simplify pm_runtime_get_if_active() usage

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael at kernel.org
Mon Jan 22 18:16:54 UTC 2024


On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 7:12 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > There are two ways to opportunistically increment a device's runtime PM
> > usage count, calling either pm_runtime_get_if_active() or
> > pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(). The former has an argument to tell whether to
> > ignore the usage count or not, and the latter simply calls the former with
> > ign_usage_count set to false. The other users that want to ignore the
> > usage_count will have to explitly set that argument to true which is a bit
> > cumbersome.
>
> s/explitly/explicitly/
>
> > To make this function more practical to use, remove the ign_usage_count
> > argument from the function. The main implementation is renamed as
> > pm_runtime_get_conditional().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus at linux.intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org> # drivers/net/ipa/ipa_smp2p.c
> > Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> > Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> # sound/
> > Reviewed-by: Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz at linux.intel.com> # drivers/accel/ivpu/
> > Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com> # drivers/gpu/drm/i915/
> > Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
>
> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com> # drivers/pci/
>
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_runtime_get_if_active);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_runtime_get_conditional);
>
> If pm_runtime_get_conditional() is exported, shouldn't it also be
> documented in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst?
>
> But I'm dubious about exporting it because
> __intel_runtime_pm_get_if_active() is the only caller, and you end up
> with the same pattern there that we have before this series in the PM
> core.  Why can't intel_runtime_pm.c be updated to use
> pm_runtime_get_if_active() or pm_runtime_get_if_in_use() directly, and
> make pm_runtime_get_conditional() static?

Sounds like a good suggestion to me.


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