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Add minimal runtime PM support (enable on probe, disable on remove), to
ensure proper operation with a parent device that uses runtime PM.
This is needed on systems where the FLASH is connected to a bus
controller that is contained in a PM domain and/or has a gateable
functional clock. In such cases, before accessing any device connected
to the external bus, the PM domain must be powered up, and/or the
functional clock must be enabled, which is typically handled through
runtime PM by the bus controller driver.
An example of this is the Renesas APE6-EVM development board, which has
an Ethernet controller and a CFI FLASH connected to the Bus State
Controller (BSC) of an R-Mobile APE6 SoC.
As long as the Ethernet driver, which had Runtime PM support since
commit 3a611e26e9 ("net/smsc911x: Add minimal runtime PM
support"), keeps the BSC powered, accessing the FLASH works.
When the ethernet node in r8a73a4-ape6evm.dts is disabled, the BSC is
never powered up, and the kernel crashes when trying to access the
FLASH:
Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406) at 0x00000000
pgd = (ptrval)
[00000000] *pgd=7fef2835
Internal error: : 1406 [#1] SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 122 Comm: hd Tainted: G W 5.5.0-rc1-ape6evm-00814-g38ca966db25b9dbd-dirty #136
Hardware name: Generic R8A73A4 (Flattened Device Tree)
PC is at chip_ready+0x12c/0x380
LR is at chip_ready+0x10c/0x380
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
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