[PATCH] PM / runtime: print error when activating a child to unactive parent

The code currently silently bails out with -EBUSY if you try to
activate a child to an inactive parent.

This typically happens when you have a runtime suspended parent
and runtime resume your child, but forgot to set .ignore_children
on the parent to true with pm_suspend_ignore_children(dev).

Silently ignoring this error is not good as it gives rise to
other strange behaviour like double-resume of devices after
silently bailing out of the .runtime_resume() callback.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>
---
 drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
index b74690418504..e7ee8293055b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c

@@ -1045,10 +1045,14 @@ int __pm_runtime_set_status(struct device *dev, unsigned int status)
 		 */
 		if (!parent->power.disable_depth
 		    && !parent->power.ignore_children
-		    && parent->power.runtime_status != RPM_ACTIVE)
+		    && parent->power.runtime_status != RPM_ACTIVE) {
+			dev_err(dev, "runtime PM trying to activate child device %s but parent (%s) is not active\n",
+				dev_name(dev),
+				dev_name(parent));
 			error = -EBUSY;
-		else if (dev->power.runtime_status == RPM_SUSPENDED)
+		} else if (dev->power.runtime_status == RPM_SUSPENDED) {
 			atomic_inc(&parent->power.child_count);
+		}
 
 		spin_unlock(&parent->power.lock);
 

-- 
2.4.11

On Monday, June 20, 2016 11:14:26 AM Linus Walleij wrote:

The code currently silently bails out with -EBUSY if you try to
activate a child to an inactive parent.

This typically happens when you have a runtime suspended parent
and runtime resume your child, but forgot to set .ignore_children
on the parent to true with pm_suspend_ignore_children(dev).

Silently ignoring this error is not good as it gives rise to
other strange behaviour like double-resume of devices after
silently bailing out of the .runtime_resume() callback.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>

Applied, thanks!