* been registered) to recover from the race condition.
* This method is executed for all kinds of suspend transitions and is
* followed by one of the suspend callbacks: @suspend(), @freeze(), or
- * @poweroff(). The PM core executes subsystem-level @prepare() for all
- * devices before starting to invoke suspend callbacks for any of them, so
- * generally devices may be assumed to be functional or to respond to
- * runtime resume requests while @prepare() is being executed. However,
- * device drivers may NOT assume anything about the availability of user
- * space at that time and it is NOT valid to request firmware from within
- * @prepare() (it's too late to do that). It also is NOT valid to allocate
+ * @poweroff(). If the transition is a suspend to memory or standby (that
+ * is, not related to hibernation), the return value of @prepare() may be
+ * used to indicate to the PM core to leave the device in runtime suspend
+ * if applicable. Namely, if @prepare() returns a positive number, the PM
+ * core will understand that as a declaration that the device appears to be
+ * runtime-suspended and it may be left in that state during the entire
+ * transition and during the subsequent resume if all of its descendants
+ * are left in runtime suspend too. If that happens, @complete() will be
+ * executed directly after @prepare() and it must ensure the proper
+ * functioning of the device after the system resume.
+ * The PM core executes subsystem-level @prepare() for all devices before
+ * starting to invoke suspend callbacks for any of them, so generally
+ * devices may be assumed to be functional or to respond to runtime resume
+ * requests while @prepare() is being executed. However, device drivers
+ * may NOT assume anything about the availability of user space at that
+ * time and it is NOT valid to request firmware from within @prepare()
+ * (it's too late to do that). It also is NOT valid to allocate
* substantial amounts of memory from @prepare() in the GFP_KERNEL mode.
* [To work around these limitations, drivers may register suspend and
* hibernation notifiers to be executed before the freezing of tasks.]
* of the other devices that the PM core has unsuccessfully attempted to
* suspend earlier).
* The PM core executes subsystem-level @complete() after it has executed
- * the appropriate resume callbacks for all devices.
+ * the appropriate resume callbacks for all devices. If the corresponding
+ * @prepare() at the beginning of the suspend transition returned a
+ * positive number and the device was left in runtime suspend (without
+ * executing any suspend and resume callbacks for it), @complete() will be
+ * the only callback executed for the device during resume. In that case,
+ * @complete() must be prepared to do whatever is necessary to ensure the
+ * proper functioning of the device after the system resume. To this end,
+ * @complete() can check the power.direct_complete flag of the device to
+ * learn whether (unset) or not (set) the previous suspend and resume
+ * callbacks have been executed for it.
*
* @suspend: Executed before putting the system into a sleep state in which the
* contents of main memory are preserved. The exact action to perform
bool is_late_suspended:1;
bool ignore_children:1;
bool early_init:1; /* Owned by the PM core */
+ bool direct_complete:1; /* Owned by the PM core */
spinlock_t lock;
#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
struct list_head entry;