PM / Runtime: Allow _put_sync() from interrupts-disabled context

Currently the use of pm_runtime_put_sync() is not safe from
interrupts-disabled context because rpm_idle() will release the
spinlock and enable interrupts for the idle callbacks.  This enables
interrupts during a time where interrupts were expected to be
disabled, and can have strange side effects on drivers that expected
interrupts to be disabled.

This is not a bug since the documentation clearly states that only
_put_sync_suspend() is safe in IRQ-safe mode.

However, pm_runtime_put_sync() could be made safe when in IRQ-safe
mode by releasing the spinlock but not re-enabling interrupts, which
is what this patch aims to do.

Problem was found when using some buggy drivers that set
pm_runtime_irq_safe() and used _put_sync() in interrupts-disabled
context.

Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index 14dd3c6ad97e..4ce5450ab6e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -54,11 +54,10 @@ 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
 to tell the PM core that a device's ->runtime_suspend() and ->runtime_resume()
-callbacks should be invoked in atomic context with interrupts disabled
-(->runtime_idle() is still invoked the default way).  This implies that these
-callback routines must not block or sleep, but it also means that the
-synchronous helper functions listed at the end of Section 4 can be used within
-an interrupt handler or in an atomic context.
+callbacks should be invoked in atomic context with interrupts disabled.
+This implies that these callback routines must not block or sleep, but it also
+means that the synchronous helper functions listed at the end of Section 4 can
+be used within an interrupt handler or in an atomic context.
 
 The subsystem-level suspend callback is _entirely_ _responsible_ for handling
 the suspend of the device as appropriate, which may, but need not include
@@ -483,6 +482,7 @@ pm_runtime_suspend()
 pm_runtime_autosuspend()
 pm_runtime_resume()
 pm_runtime_get_sync()
+pm_runtime_put_sync()
 pm_runtime_put_sync_suspend()
 
 5. Runtime PM Initialization, Device Probing and Removal