linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: evaluate

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Message-ID: <1333935525.7482.7.camel@minggr>
Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:38:45 +0800
From:	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@....com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@....com>, Alex He <alex.he@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: evaluate _PS3 when entering D3 Cold

On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 01:54 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, April 05, 2012, Lin Ming wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 10:56 +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:31:20AM +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > The only situation where a device can be put into ACPI D3_hot (which is not
> > > > > the same as PCI D3_hot, mind you) is when:
> > > > > 
> > > > > (1) There is _PR3 listing some of the device's power resources as "on".
> > > > > (2) The power resources listed by the _PR3 as "off" are turned off and the
> > > > >     power resources listed by the _PR3 as "on" are left in the "on" state.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't understand item (2):
> > > > 
> > > > If the power resource is listed as "off", which means it's already
> > > > turned off. Then why should it be turned off again?
> > > 
> > > Rafael,
> > > I think you misunderstand the meaning of _PR3.
> > > The _PR3 will evaluate a list of power resources, not two lists(one "on"
> > > list and one "off" list), as illustrated by Ming below.
> > > 
> > > And for a device to be put to D3 hot, it should:
> > > 1 execuate _PS3 first if available
> > > 2 turn on all the power resources referenced by _PR3
> > 
> >   3 turn off all the power resources referenced by previous state
> 
> But leave the ones listed by _PR3 in the "on" state, you mean?

Yes.

_PR0: {r1, r2, r3, r4, r5}
_PR3: {r4, r5}

D0: {r1, r2, r3, r4, r5} are all on
D3 hot: {r1, r2, r3} are turned off and {r4, r5} are *left* on
D3 cold: {r1, r2, r3, r4, r5} are all turned off

Is this correct?

Thanks for your detail explanation.

> 
> Rafael


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