linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] PM: Introduce destroy_suspended

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Date:	Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:55:50 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] PM: Introduce destroy_suspended_device()

On Saturday, 5 of January 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > I have rebased gregkh-driver-pm-acquire-device-locks-prior-to-suspending.patch
> > on top of the $subject series, the result is appended.  It has only been
> > compilation tested for now, but I'll be testing it for the next couple of days.
> > 
> > Please review.
> 
> I would prefer it if you could also merge in this patch at the same 
> time:
> 
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2007-December/015921.html

Makes sense, I will.

> > +void device_resume(void)
> >  {
> > -	sysdev_resume();
> > -	dpm_power_up();
> > +	might_sleep();
> > +	dpm_resume();
> > +	unlock_all_devices();
> > +	unregister_dropped_devices();
> > +	up_write(&pm_sleep_rwsem);
> >  }
> 
> With the aforementioned patch merged in, this will generate a 
> warning for each dropped device.  The call to 
> unregister_dropped_devices() should come after the up_write().
> 
> You might also consider adding a call to unregister_dropped_devices()  
> in the error path of device_suspend() -- in theory even an aborted 
> suspend might cause a device to malfunction.

In fact it already works like this, since device_suspend() now calls the entire
device_resume() on error.

> Otherwise this looks okay.

However, I think we don't need to wait with unregistering suspended devices
until after the other ones are resumed.  We only need a special function for
unregistering suspended devices that will make the PM core release the device's
semaphore before unregistering it.

I have already sent a replacemet for
gregkh-driver-pm-acquire-device-locks-prior-to-suspending.patch that includes
some code from the $subject patch and implements the above idea:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/4/278

I'm going to merge it with your patch at:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2007-December/015921.html
and with patches [2/4] and [4/4] from the $subject series.  I'll post the
result for a review later today.

Thanks,
Rafael
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