linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

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Date:	Sat, 29 May 2010 08:11:58 -0700
From:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2010, Brian Swetland wrote:
>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> > If no such constraints are active, the QoS-based suspend blocks in an
>> > interruptible wait until the number of active QOS_EVENTUALLY
>> > constraints drops to 0.  When that happens, it carries out a normal
>> > suspend-to-RAM -- except that it checks along the way to make sure that
>> > no new QoS constraints are activated while the suspend is in progress.
>> > If they are, the PM core backs out and fails the QoS-based suspend.
>>
>> The issue with this approach is that if userspace wants to suspend
>> while a driver is holding a QOS_EVENTUALLY constraint, it's basically
>> going to spin constantly writing "qos" and failing.
>
> No, no.  If userspace wants to suspend while a driver is holding a
> QOS_EVENTUALLY constraint, the user process blocks in an interruptible
> wait state as described in the first paragraph above.

Oops -- I misread the first paragraph.  The behavior you described is
indeed what I would want.

Brian
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