linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] PCI: Rework default handling of suspend and resume

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812070835040.3425@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sun, 7 Dec 2008 08:44:00 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] PCI: Rework default handling of suspend and resume

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> If there is no objection from Jesse and if you don't mind, I'll prepare a
> version of the $subject patch on top of the patch in your tree and send it to
> you.

Rafael: there's a bug in your 1/3 patch. 

It looks like "pci_save_state()" is currently unhappy with being called 
with interrupts disabled. Or at least "pci_save_pci[ex]_state()" state 
are. They both do a kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL).

So you should change that GFP_KERNEL into a GFP_ATOMIC. Or do something 
more complicated like pre-allocate them during early suspend, but just 
changing it to GFP_ATOMIC seems to be the trivial fix.

I'm not seeing any other issues with saving/restoring things with irq's 
disabled, but people should be on the lookout for details like this.

			Linus
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