linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM: avoid 'autosleep' in shutdown progress

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Message-ID: <152678399.VWEAi22Dp4@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jul 2013 02:16:38 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com
Cc:	shuox.liu@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	len.brown@...el.com, pavel@....cz, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: avoid 'autosleep' in shutdown progress

On Friday, July 12, 2013 02:14:11 PM Yanmin Zhang wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 16:03 +0800, shuox.liu@...el.com wrote:
> > From: Liu ShuoX <shuox.liu@...el.com>
> > 
> > In shutdown progress, system is possible to do power transition
> > (such as suspend-to-ram) in parallel. It is unreasonable. So,
> > fixes it by adding a system_state checking and queue try_to_suspend
> > again when system status is not running.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Liu ShuoX <shuox.liu@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/power/autosleep.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> Without this patch, we hit an hang issue on Android.
> 
> Scenario:
> Kernel starts shutdown and calls all device driver's shutdown callback.
> When a driver's shutdown is called, the last wakelock is released and
> suspend-to-ram starts. However, as some driver's shut down callbacks
> already shut down devices and disable runtime pm, the suspend-to-ram
> calls driver's suspend callback without noticing that device is already
> off and causes crash.

OK, queued up as a fix for 3.11, with a modified changelog (I used your
scenario above in it).

Thanks,
Rafael


> We know the drivers should be fixed, but can we also change generic
> codes a little to make it stronger?
> 
> > diff --git a/kernel/power/autosleep.c b/kernel/power/autosleep.c
> > index c6422ff..9012ecf 100644
> > --- a/kernel/power/autosleep.c
> > +++ b/kernel/power/autosleep.c
> > @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ static void try_to_suspend(struct work_struct *work)
> >  
> >  	mutex_lock(&autosleep_lock);
> >  
> > -	if (!pm_save_wakeup_count(initial_count)) {
> > +	if (!pm_save_wakeup_count(initial_count) ||
> > +		system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
> >  		mutex_unlock(&autosleep_lock);
> >  		goto out;
> >  	}
> 
> 
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