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-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt22
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
index edeecd447d23..b96098ccfe69 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
@@ -75,12 +75,14 @@ you should do the following:
# echo platform > /sys/power/disk
# echo disk > /sys/power/state
-Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait 5 seconds,
-resume devices and thaw processes. If "platform" is written to
+Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait a few
+seconds (5 by default, but configurable by the suspend.pm_test_delay module
+parameter), resume devices and thaw processes. If "platform" is written to
/sys/power/pm_test , then after suspending devices the kernel will additionally
invoke the global control methods (eg. ACPI global control methods) used to
-prepare the platform firmware for hibernation. Next, it will wait 5 seconds and
-invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global methods used to cancel hibernation etc.
+prepare the platform firmware for hibernation. Next, it will wait a
+configurable number of seconds and invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global
+methods used to cancel hibernation etc.
Writing "none" to /sys/power/pm_test causes the kernel to switch to the normal
hibernation/suspend operations. Also, when open for reading, /sys/power/pm_test
diff --git a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt
index 8afb236ca765..e51564c1a140 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/regulator/consumer.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Indirect operating mode control.
Consumer drivers can request a change in their supply regulator operating mode
by calling :-
-int regulator_set_optimum_mode(struct regulator *regulator, int load_uA);
+int regulator_set_load(struct regulator *regulator, int load_uA);
This will cause the core to recalculate the total load on the regulator (based
on all its consumers) and change operating mode (if necessary and permitted)
diff --git a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
index 2f9c5a5fcb25..8afb29a8604a 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ but also to IPIs and to some other special-purpose interrupts.
The IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag is used to indicate that to the IRQ subsystem when
requesting a special-purpose interrupt. It causes suspend_device_irqs() to
-leave the corresponding IRQ enabled so as to allow the interrupt to work all
-the time as expected.
+leave the corresponding IRQ enabled so as to allow the interrupt to work as
+expected during the suspend-resume cycle, but does not guarantee that the
+interrupt will wake the system from a suspended state -- for such cases it is
+necessary to use enable_irq_wake().
Note that the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag affects the entire IRQ and not just one
user of it. Thus, if the IRQ is shared, all of the interrupt handlers installed
@@ -110,8 +112,9 @@ any special interrupt handling logic for it to work.
IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and enable_irq_wake()
-------------------------------------
-There are no valid reasons to use both enable_irq_wake() and the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
-flag on the same IRQ.
+There are very few valid reasons to use both enable_irq_wake() and the
+IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag on the same IRQ, and it is never valid to use both for the
+same device.
First of all, if the IRQ is not shared, the rules for handling IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
interrupts (interrupt handlers are invoked after suspend_device_irqs()) are
@@ -120,4 +123,13 @@ handlers are not invoked after suspend_device_irqs()).
Second, both enable_irq_wake() and IRQF_NO_SUSPEND apply to entire IRQs and not
to individual interrupt handlers, so sharing an IRQ between a system wakeup
-interrupt source and an IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupt source does not make sense.
+interrupt source and an IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupt source does not generally
+make sense.
+
+In rare cases an IRQ can be shared between a wakeup device driver and an
+IRQF_NO_SUSPEND user. In order for this to be safe, the wakeup device driver
+must be able to discern spurious IRQs from genuine wakeup events (signalling
+the latter to the core with pm_system_wakeup()), must use enable_irq_wake() to
+ensure that the IRQ will function as a wakeup source, and must request the IRQ
+with IRQF_COND_SUSPEND to tell the core that it meets these requirements. If
+these requirements are not met, it is not valid to use IRQF_COND_SUSPEND.