linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 4)

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Message-Id: <1206574982.6926.53.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:43:02 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and
	hibernation callbacks (rev. 4)


On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 02:27 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > This is the 4th revision of the patch.
> > + * struct pm_noirq_ops - device PM callbacks executed with interrupts disabled
> > + *
> > + * The following callbacks included in 'struct pm_noirq_ops' are executed with
> > + * the nonboot CPUs switched off and with interrupts disabled on the only
> > + * functional CPU.  They also are executed with the PM core list of devices
> > + * locked, so they must NOT unregister any devices.
> > + *
> > + * @suspend_noirq: Complete the operations of ->suspend() by carrying out any
> > + *	actions required for suspending the device that need interrupts to be
> > + *	disabled
> IMHO, no need to add _noirq in both struct and struct members.
> pm_noirq->suspend_noirq does not look good...

There is absolutely no point getting a second struct anymore.

BTW. I haven't had a chance to review the rest of the discussion on that
thread yet, been busy with other things, I'll try to go back to it today
or tomorrow.

Cheers,
Ben.

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