PM / runtime: Add new helper for conditional usage count incrementation

Introduce a new runtime PM function, pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(),
that will increment the device's runtime PM usage counter and
return 1 if its status is RPM_ACTIVE and its usage counter
is greater than 0 at the same time (0 will be returned otherwise).

This is useful for things that should only be done if the device
is active (from the runtime PM perspective) and used by somebody
(as indicated by the usage counter) already and they are not worth
bothering otherwise.

Requested-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index 0784bc3..7328cf8 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -371,6 +371,12 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h:
     - increment the device's usage counter, run pm_runtime_resume(dev) and
       return its result
 
+  int pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(struct device *dev);
+    - return -EINVAL if 'power.disable_depth' is nonzero; otherwise, if the
+      runtime PM status is RPM_ACTIVE and the runtime PM usage counter is
+      nonzero, increment the counter and return 1; otherwise return 0 without
+      changing the counter
+
   void pm_runtime_put_noidle(struct device *dev);
     - decrement the device's usage counter