diff --git a/drivers/acpi/device_pm.c b/drivers/acpi/device_pm.c
index e54956ae93d3..44172eb18d6e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/device_pm.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/device_pm.c
@@ -1112,13 +1112,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_subsys_resume_early);
 int acpi_subsys_freeze(struct device *dev)
 {
 	/*
-	 * This used to be done in acpi_subsys_prepare() for all devices and
-	 * some drivers may depend on it, so do it here.  Ideally, however,
-	 * runtime-suspended devices should not be touched during freeze/thaw
-	 * transitions.
+	 * Resume all runtime-suspended devices before creating a snapshot
+	 * image of system memory, because the restore kernel generally cannot
+	 * be expected to always handle them consistently and they need to be
+	 * put into the runtime-active metastate during system resume anyway,
+	 * so it is better to ensure that the state saved in the image will be
+	 * always consistent with that.
 	 */
-	if (!dev_pm_test_driver_flags(dev, DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND))
-		pm_runtime_resume(dev);
+	pm_runtime_resume(dev);
 
 	return pm_generic_freeze(dev);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
index 5eadbc3d0969..ce54fa3ed94a 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
@@ -972,15 +972,15 @@ static int pci_pm_freeze(struct device *dev)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * This used to be done in pci_pm_prepare() for all devices and some
-	 * drivers may depend on it, so do it here.  Ideally, runtime-suspended
-	 * devices should not be touched during freeze/thaw transitions,
-	 * however.
+	 * Resume all runtime-suspended devices before creating a snapshot
+	 * image of system memory, because the restore kernel generally cannot
+	 * be expected to always handle them consistently and they need to be
+	 * put into the runtime-active metastate during system resume anyway,
+	 * so it is better to ensure that the state saved in the image will be
+	 * always consistent with that.
 	 */
-	if (!dev_pm_smart_suspend_and_suspended(dev)) {
-		pm_runtime_resume(dev);
-		pci_dev->state_saved = false;
-	}
+	pm_runtime_resume(dev);
+	pci_dev->state_saved = false;
 
 	if (pm->freeze) {
 		int error;