diff --git a/drivers/base/power/main.c b/drivers/base/power/main.c
index 9dd85bea4026..205a06752ca9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/main.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/main.c
@@ -1606,13 +1606,17 @@ static int __device_suspend(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state, bool async)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * If a device configured to wake up the system from sleep states
-	 * has been suspended at run time and there's a resume request pending
-	 * for it, this is equivalent to the device signaling wakeup, so the
-	 * system suspend operation should be aborted.
+	 * Wait for possible runtime PM transitions of the device in progress
+	 * to complete and if there's a runtime resume request pending for it,
+	 * resume it before proceeding with invoking the system-wide suspend
+	 * callbacks for it.
+	 *
+	 * If the system-wide suspend callbacks below change the configuration
+	 * of the device, they must disable runtime PM for it or otherwise
+	 * ensure that its runtime-resume callbacks will not be confused by that
+	 * change in case they are invoked going forward.
 	 */
-	if (pm_runtime_barrier(dev) && device_may_wakeup(dev))
-		pm_wakeup_event(dev, 0);
+	pm_runtime_barrier(dev);
 
 	if (pm_wakeup_pending()) {
 		dev->power.direct_complete = false;