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PM / runtime: Asynchronous "idle" in pm_runtime_allow()

Arjan reports that it takes a relatively long time to enable runtime
PM for multiple devices at system startup, because all writes to the
"control" attribute in sysfs are handled synchronously and if the
device is suspended as a result of the write, it will block until
that operation is complete.

That may be avoided by passing the RPM_ASYNC flag to rpm_idle()
in pm_runtime_allow() which will make it execute the device's
"idle" callback asynchronously, so writes to "control" changing
it from "on" to "auto" will return without waiting.

Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>

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drivers/base/power/runtime.c
··· 1260 1260 1261 1261 dev->power.runtime_auto = true; 1262 1262 if (atomic_dec_and_test(&dev->power.usage_count)) 1263 - rpm_idle(dev, RPM_AUTO); 1263 + rpm_idle(dev, RPM_AUTO | RPM_ASYNC); 1264 1264 1265 1265 out: 1266 1266 spin_unlock_irq(&dev->power.lock);