Hello,

I am reviving this old thread, because the proposed patch (almost)
solves the problem I recently reported with the bad interaction of
runtime PM with the Zynq GPIO driver (see
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-gpio/msg35437.html).

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:33:09 +0200, Michal Simek wrote:

This patch almost solves the problem. It doesn't work as-is, because it
assumes that runtime PM is used by all GPIO controllers, which is not
the case. When runtime PM is not enabled, pm_runtime_get_sync() fails
with -EACCES, and the whole gpiochip_irq_reqres() function aborts.

The following patch works fine in my case (a MMC card detect signal is
connected to a pin of a PCA GPIO expander over I2C, whose INT# pin is
itself connected to a GPIO pin of the Zynq SoC).

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 20887c62fbb3..bd9a81fc8d56 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/kfifo.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/timekeeping.h>
+#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/gpio.h>
 
 #include "gpiolib.h"

@@ -3540,12 +3541,23 @@ int gpiochip_reqres_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
        if (!try_module_get(chip->gpiodev->owner))
                return -ENODEV;
 
+       if (pm_runtime_enabled(chip->parent)) {
+               ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(chip->parent);
+               if (ret < 0) {
+                       module_put(chip->gpiodev->owner);
+                       return ret;
+               }
+       }
+
        ret = gpiochip_lock_as_irq(chip, offset);
        if (ret) {
                chip_err(chip, "unable to lock HW IRQ %u for IRQ\n", offset);
+               if (pm_runtime_enabled(chip->parent))
+                       pm_runtime_put(chip->parent);
                module_put(chip->gpiodev->owner);
                return ret;
        }
+
        return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_reqres_irq);

@@ -3553,6 +3565,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_reqres_irq);
 void gpiochip_relres_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
 {
        gpiochip_unlock_as_irq(chip, offset);
+       if (pm_runtime_enabled(chip->parent))
+               pm_runtime_put(chip->parent);
        module_put(chip->gpiodev->owner);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_relres_irq);

However, I must say that from a design perspective, I am not a big fan
of this solution. Indeed for the normal GPIO ->request() and ->free()
hooks, it is currently the GPIO driver itself that is responsible for
runtime PM get/put, so it would be weird to have the runtime PM get/put
for the IRQ request/free be done by the GPIO core.

I believe that either the GPIO core should be in charge of the entire
runtime PM interaction, or it should entirely be the responsibility of
each GPIO controller driver. Having a mixed solution seems very
confusing.

Let me know which direction should be taken so that I can submit a
proper patch to hopefully resolve this issue.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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