Re: [PATCH v9 06/10] ata: zpodd: check zero power ready status

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On Monday, November 26, 2012 08:48:51 AM Aaron Lu wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 08:50 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 04:59:57 PM Aaron Lu wrote:
> >> On 11/20/2012 02:00 PM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> >>> On 11/19/2012 10:56 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >>>> I really think we need a way for (auto)pm and event polling to talk to
> >>>> each other so that autopm can tell event poll to sod off while pm is
> >>>> in effect.  Trying to solve this from inside libata doesn't seem
> >>>> right.  The problem, again, seems to be figuring out which hardware
> >>>> device maps to which block device.  Hmmm... Any good ideas?
> >>>
> >>> A possible way of doing this is using pm qos.
> >>>
> >>> We currently have 2 pm qos flags, NO_POWER_OFF and REMOTE_WAKEUP, and we
> >>> can add another one: NO_POLL, use it like the following:
> >>> 1 Set the NO_POLL pm qos flag when the underlying driver thinks it is no
> >>>   longer necessary. In the ZPODD's case, it should be set when the
> >>>   device is to be powered off;
> >>> 2 Clear it when poll is necessary again. In the ZPODD's case, when power
> >>>   is re-gained, this flag will be cleared.
> >>
> >>
> >>> 3 In the disk_events_workfn, check if this flag is set, if so, simply
> >>>   return.
> >>
> >> It should be, skip calling disk->fops->check_events, but still queue the
> >> work for next time's poll.
> >>
> >> -Aaron
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The disk->driverfs_dev can be used to host the pm qos flag, ATA layer
> >>> can access it through ata_device->sdev->sdev_gendev.
> >>>
> >>> Is this OK?
> > 
> > No, I don't think so.  PM QoS is about telling the layer that will put the
> > device into low-power states what states are to be taken into consideration.
> > In this case, however, we need to tell someone else that the device has been
> > turned off.  Clearly, we need a way to do that, but not through PM QoS.
> > 
> > Did you consider using pm_runtime_suspended() to check the device status?
> 
> The problem is, a device can be in runtime suspended state while still
> needs to be polled...

Well, maybe this is the problem, then?  Why does it need to be polled when
suspended?

Rafael


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