linux-kernel - Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

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Message-Id: <200704262102.38568.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:02:37 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	suspend2-devel@...ts.suspend2.net, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-pm <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

On Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:40, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 20:40 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > >  * it surfaces kernel implementation details about pm_ops and thus makes
> > >    the whole thing very fragile
> > 
> > Can you elaborate?
> 
> Well it tells userspace about pm_ops->enter/prepare/finish etc.
> Also, it seems that it needs a "release memory now" operation instead of
> just releasing it when the fd is closed?

Yes.  That's because we want to be able to repeat creating the image
without closing the fd in some situations.

> > >  * it has yet another interface (yuck) to determine whether to reboot,
> > >    shut down etc, doesn't use /sys/power/disk
> > 
> > Yes.  In fact it was meant as a replacement for /sys/power/disk at one point.
> 
> Heh.
> 
> > >  * I generally had no idea wtf it is doing in some places
> > 
> > I could have told you if you had asked. :-)
> 
> I was offline ;)
> 
> > Do we need hibernate_ops at all?  There's only one user anyway and I'm not
> > sure there will be more of them in the future.
> 
> I'm pretty sure there won't be, but there's no way to do it cleanly
> without pm_ops since even acpi doesn't do this all the time but only
> when some set of conditions is true. Hence, it needs to be able to
> determine the availability of the platform mode at run time rather than
> build time (build time => we could use weak symbols, arch hooks, ...)

Still, we could use a global var 'platform_hibernation' or something like this,
I think.  Then, we can do

#define platform_hibernation	0

on the architectures that don't need it and make ACPI use it instead of this
"dynamic linking".

Greetings,
Rafael
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