linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] xen/acpi: upload PM state from init-domain to Xen

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:12:52 +0100
From:   Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:     Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] xen/acpi: upload PM state from init-domain to Xen

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:56:02AM -0700, Ankur Arora wrote:
> >It is ok to do upload_pm_data() with delay i.e. after some other
> >resume actions are done and possibly xen-acpi-processor is in
> >running state ?
> The state uploaded is ACPI P and C state from struct acpi_processor
> which AFAICS is stable once inited so a delay would not lead to
> invalid state.
> The only concern would be the ACPI pCPU hotplug logic in
> acpi_processor_add() which could add a new entry in
> per_cpu(processors) but that also looks okay because either we
> get a NULL or we get a pointer to an inited structure.
> 
> As for the hypervisor -- that falls back to more limited state after
> resume (because some of this state is thrown away at suspend) and so
> uses that until it gets the uploaded PM state from the initial-domain.

Patch looks good to me then.

Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>