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

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:09:55 +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 Friday, 27 April 2007 12:19, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:18 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > 1) We define platform_hibernation if CONFIG_ACPI is set.
> 
> Let's just define it always then in the common code so we don't have
> even more magic bits platforms need to define even if they don't care at
> all. And please don't put #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI into the common code ;)
> Maybe #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_NEEDS_HIBERNATE_HOOKS or something.
> 
> > 2) In the ACPI code we do
> > 
> > if (can do S4)
> > 	platform_hibernation = 1;
> 
> Gotcha.
> 
> > 3) We have functions arch_platform_prepare()/finish()/enter() that are defined
> > to be noops for anything but ACPI systems and for ACPI systems they are
> > defined like this:
> > 
> > int arch_platform_enter(void)
> > {
> > 	if (!platform_hibernation)
> > 		return 0;
> > 
> > 	...
> > }
> > 
> > I think it should work.
> 
> You could reduce code churn in all other platforms by making these weak
> symbols like the irq hooks I did for pm_ops. It looks like it can work
> and possibly is even less intrusive than my hibernate_ops patch. Though
> then again my hibernate_ops patch removed a lot of stuff that is now no
> longer necessary, and also completely removed the PM_SUSPEND_DISK foo...
> we probably want that regardless of how we invoke ACPI.

Yes.  Still, I'd like to rework your patch to deal with ACPI without
introducing hibernate_ops .  I'm going to do this later today if you don't
mind. :-)

Rafael
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