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-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/devices.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/pci.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/swsusp-dmcrypt.txt2
5 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/00-INDEX b/Documentation/power/00-INDEX
index ad04cc8..7cb6085 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/power/00-INDEX
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ basic-pm-debugging.txt
- Debugging suspend and resume
charger-manager.txt
- Battery charger management.
-devices.txt
+admin-guide/devices.rst
- How drivers interact with system-wide power management
drivers-testing.txt
- Testing suspend and resume support in device drivers
diff --git a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt
index 8ba6625..73ddea3 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt
@@ -607,7 +607,9 @@ individually. Instead, a set of devices sharing a power resource can be put
into a low-power state together at the same time by turning off the shared
power resource. Of course, they also need to be put into the full-power state
together, by turning the shared power resource on. A set of devices with this
-property is often referred to as a power domain.
+property is often referred to as a power domain. A power domain may also be
+nested inside another power domain. The nested domain is referred to as the
+sub-domain of the parent domain.
Support for power domains is provided through the pm_domain field of struct
device. This field is a pointer to an object of type struct dev_pm_domain,
@@ -629,6 +631,16 @@ support for power domains into subsystem-level callbacks, for example by
modifying the platform bus type. Other platforms need not implement it or take
it into account in any way.
+Devices may be defined as IRQ-safe which indicates to the PM core that their
+runtime PM callbacks may be invoked with disabled interrupts (see
+Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt for more information). If an IRQ-safe
+device belongs to a PM domain, the runtime PM of the domain will be
+disallowed, unless the domain itself is defined as IRQ-safe. However, it
+makes sense to define a PM domain as IRQ-safe only if all the devices in it
+are IRQ-safe. Moreover, if an IRQ-safe domain has a parent domain, the runtime
+PM of the parent is only allowed if the parent itself is IRQ-safe too with the
+additional restriction that all child domains of an IRQ-safe parent must also
+be IRQ-safe.
Device Low Power (suspend) States
---------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/power/pci.txt b/Documentation/power/pci.txt
index 4455888..85c746c 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/pci.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ management. Based on previous work by Patrick Mochel <mochel@transmeta.com>
This document only covers the aspects of power management specific to PCI
devices. For general description of the kernel's interfaces related to device
-power management refer to Documentation/power/devices.txt and
+power management refer to Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst and
Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ pm->runtime_idle() callback.
2.4. System-Wide Power Transitions
----------------------------------
There are a few different types of system-wide power transitions, described in
-Documentation/power/devices.txt. Each of them requires devices to be handled
+Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst. Each of them requires devices to be handled
in a specific way and the PM core executes subsystem-level power management
callbacks for this purpose. They are executed in phases such that each phase
involves executing the same subsystem-level callback for every device belonging
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ System restore requires a hibernation image to be loaded into memory and the
pre-hibernation memory contents to be restored before the pre-hibernation system
activity can be resumed.
-As described in Documentation/power/devices.txt, the hibernation image is loaded
+As described in Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst, the hibernation image is loaded
into memory by a fresh instance of the kernel, called the boot kernel, which in
turn is loaded and run by a boot loader in the usual way. After the boot kernel
has loaded the image, it needs to replace its own code and data with the code
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ controlling the runtime power management of their devices.
At the time of this writing there are two ways to define power management
callbacks for a PCI device driver, the recommended one, based on using a
-dev_pm_ops structure described in Documentation/power/devices.txt, and the
+dev_pm_ops structure described in Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst, and the
"legacy" one, in which the .suspend(), .suspend_late(), .resume_early(), and
.resume() callbacks from struct pci_driver are used. The legacy approach,
however, doesn't allow one to define runtime power management callbacks and is
@@ -1046,5 +1046,5 @@ PCI Local Bus Specification, Rev. 3.0
PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, Rev. 1.2
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification, Rev. 3.0b
PCI Express Base Specification, Rev. 2.0
-Documentation/power/devices.txt
+Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst
Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index 1fd1fbe..4870980 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ left in runtime suspend. If that happens, the PM core will not execute any
system suspend and resume callbacks for all of those devices, except for the
complete callback, which is then entirely responsible for handling the device
as appropriate. This only applies to system suspend transitions that are not
-related to hibernation (see Documentation/power/devices.txt for more
+related to hibernation (see Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst for more
information).
The PM core does its best to reduce the probability of race conditions between
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp-dmcrypt.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp-dmcrypt.txt
index 59931b4..b802fbf 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp-dmcrypt.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp-dmcrypt.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Some prerequisites:
You know how dm-crypt works. If not, visit the following web page:
http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/
You have read Documentation/power/swsusp.txt and understand it.
-You did read Documentation/initrd.txt and know how an initrd works.
+You did read Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst and know how an initrd works.
You know how to create or how to modify an initrd.
Now your system is properly set up, your disk is encrypted except for
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