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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:19:34 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> CC: viresh.kumar@...aro.org, robert.jarzmik@...el.com, durgadoss.r@...el.com, tianyu.lan@...el.com, lantianyu1986@...il.com, dirk.brandewie@...il.com, stern@...land.harvard.edu, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Cpufreq, cpu hotplug, suspend/resume related fixes On 07/17/2013 08:57 PM, Toralf Förster wrote: > On 07/16/2013 11:32 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 05:15:14 PM Toralf Förster wrote: >>> On 07/12/2013 12:23 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >>>> On 07/12/2013 04:03 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>>>> On Friday, July 12, 2013 03:45:17 AM Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>>> Commit a66b2e (cpufreq: Preserve sysfs files across suspend/resume) caused >>>>>> some subtle regressions in the cpufreq subsystem during suspend/resume. >>>>>> This patchset is aimed at rectifying those problems, by fixing the regression >>>>>> as well as achieving the original goal of that commit in a proper way. >>>>>> >>>>>> Patch 1 reverts the above commit, and is CC'ed to stable. >>>>>> >>>>>> Patches 2 - 5 reorganize the code and have no functional impact, and can go >>>>>> in as general cleanups as well. This reorganization builds a base that the >>>>>> rest of the patches will make use of. >>>>>> >>>>>> Patch 6 and 7 add a mechanism to perform light-weight init/tear-down of CPUs >>>>>> in the cpufreq subsystem and finally patch 8 uses it to preserve sysfs files >>>>>> across suspend/resume. >>>>>> >>>>>> All the patches apply on current mainline. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Robert, Durgadoss, it would be great if you could try it out and see if it works >>>>>> well for your usecase. I tested it locally and cpufreq related files did retain >>>>>> their permissions across suspend/resume. Let me know if it works fine in your >>>>>> setup too. >>>>>> >>>>>> And I'd of course appreciate to hear from Dirk, Tianyu and Toralf to know >>>>>> whether their systems work fine after: >>>>>> a. applying only the first commit (this is what gets backported to stable) >>>>>> b. applying all the commits >>>>>> >>>>>> (Note: I had to use Michael's fix[1] to avoid CPU hotplug deadlock while >>>>>> testing this patchset. Though that patch also touches cpufreq subsystem, it >>>>>> doesn't affect this patchset in any way and there is absolutely no dependency >>>>>> between the two in terms of code. That fix just makes basic CPU hotplug work >>>>>> without locking up on current mainline). >>>>>> >>>>>> [1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/10/611 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you very much! >>>>> >>>>> Thanks Srivatsa! >>>>> >>>>> I'm going to take [1/8] for 3.11 and queue up the rest for 3.12 if people don't >>>>> hate them. This way we'll have some more testing coverage before they reach >>>>> the mainline hopefully. >>>>> >>> >>> On 07/16/2013 01:25 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:> On Monday, July 15, 2013 07:38:02 PM Toralf Förster wrote: >>>> Sorry, I have no idea what 1#8 means. >>> >>> sry - here again with full quote of the email : >>> >>> I applied patch [1/8] on top of v3.11-rc1-8-g47188d3 passes two s2ram/wakeup >>> cycles fine and crashed the system at the 3rd attempt / one times just at >>> the 4th (blinking power led, no sysrq, ...). >>> >>> Applying patch 1-8 on top of that tree differs in that way that it >>> crashes now the system even at the 1st attempt or at least at the 2nd >>> >>> My hardware is a ThinkPad T420 with latest BIOS and a 32 bit stable >>> Gentoo Linux - FWIW .config attached. >> >> I think you'll need the fixes first, basically [1/8] from this series and >> this: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2827512/ . >> >> Please try to run with these two things applied only and see how that goes. >> >> Thanks, >> Rafael >> >> > That was it. > > Applying https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2827512/ and then patch > [1/8] on top of v3.11-rc1-8-g47188d3 works fine and solved the reported > issue. > > Furthermore applying patches 2-8 works too - suspend/wakeup works fine > and frequencies are scaled right after wakeup at the T420. > Phew! Finally :-) Thank you for all your testing efforts! Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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