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-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/devices.txt29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt13
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt
index df1a5cb10c4..f023ba6bba6 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt
@@ -249,23 +249,18 @@ various phases always run after tasks have been frozen and before they are
unfrozen. Furthermore, the *_noirq phases run at a time when IRQ handlers have
been disabled (except for those marked with the IRQ_WAKEUP flag).
-Most phases use bus, type, and class callbacks (that is, methods defined in
-dev->bus->pm, dev->type->pm, and dev->class->pm). The prepare and complete
-phases are exceptions; they use only bus callbacks. When multiple callbacks
-are used in a phase, they are invoked in the order: <class, type, bus> during
-power-down transitions and in the opposite order during power-up transitions.
-For example, during the suspend phase the PM core invokes
-
- dev->class->pm.suspend(dev);
- dev->type->pm.suspend(dev);
- dev->bus->pm.suspend(dev);
-
-before moving on to the next device, whereas during the resume phase the core
-invokes
-
- dev->bus->pm.resume(dev);
- dev->type->pm.resume(dev);
- dev->class->pm.resume(dev);
+All phases use bus, type, or class callbacks (that is, methods defined in
+dev->bus->pm, dev->type->pm, or dev->class->pm). These callbacks are mutually
+exclusive, so if the device type provides a struct dev_pm_ops object pointed to
+by its pm field (i.e. both dev->type and dev->type->pm are defined), the
+callbacks included in that object (i.e. dev->type->pm) will be used. Otherwise,
+if the class provides a struct dev_pm_ops object pointed to by its pm field
+(i.e. both dev->class and dev->class->pm are defined), the PM core will use the
+callbacks from that object (i.e. dev->class->pm). Finally, if the pm fields of
+both the device type and class objects are NULL (or those objects do not exist),
+the callbacks provided by the bus (that is, the callbacks from dev->bus->pm)
+will be used (this allows device types to override callbacks provided by bus
+types or classes if necessary).
These callbacks may in turn invoke device- or driver-specific methods stored in
dev->driver->pm, but they don't have to.
diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index ffe55ffa540..654097b130b 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Run-time Power Management Framework for I/O Devices
-(C) 2009 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc.
+(C) 2009-2011 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc.
(C) 2010 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
1. Introduction
@@ -44,11 +44,12 @@ struct dev_pm_ops {
};
The ->runtime_suspend(), ->runtime_resume() and ->runtime_idle() callbacks are
-executed by the PM core for either the bus type, or device type (if the bus
-type's callback is not defined), or device class (if the bus type's and device
-type's callbacks are not defined) of given device. The bus type, device type
-and device class callbacks are referred to as subsystem-level callbacks in what
-follows.
+executed by the PM core for either the device type, or the class (if the device
+type's struct dev_pm_ops object does not exist), or the bus type (if the
+device type's and class' struct dev_pm_ops objects do not exist) of the given
+device (this allows device types to override callbacks provided by bus types or
+classes if necessary). The bus type, device type and class callbacks are
+referred to as subsystem-level callbacks in what follows.
By default, the callbacks are always invoked in process context with interrupts
enabled. However, subsystems can use the pm_runtime_irq_safe() helper function