linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: suspend/resume governors with PM notifiers

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Message-ID: <1830400.e7iQhdqTJH@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:39:18 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>
Cc:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Patch Tracking <patches@...aro.org>,
	"cpufreq@...r.kernel.org" <cpufreq@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>, jinchoi@...adcom.com,
	Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@...aro.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: suspend/resume governors with PM notifiers

On Monday, November 18, 2013 09:37:39 PM Lan Tianyu wrote:
> On 11/18/2013 07:01 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > On 18 November 2013 16:27, Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com> wrote:
> >> How about introducing a resume/suspend callback pointer or list(if there
> >> are several places that need to deal with cpu resume/suspend) in the
> >> struct cpu and populate it in the cpufreq_add_dev()?
> >>
> >> The suspend/resume() of cpu_subsys needs to check the callback pointer
> >> and run it if available.
> >
> > That's almost a new infrastructure then and looks more hackish :)
> 
> The resume/suspend() must be stored in the struct driver->pm? :)
> 
> > Apart from that even cpufreq would be a bit hacky as we don't really need
> > per-cpu callbacks..
> >
> 
> This maybe depends on where we want the issue to be fixed, right?
> The cpufreq driver also can fix the issue if we run their cpu_driver 
> resume/suspend callback earlier.
> 
> Another point, I just see cpuidle_resume() and cpuidle_pause() are 
> called in the dpm_resume_noirq and dpm_suspend_noirq(). Not sure whether 
> this can be applied to cpufreq.

I don't see why not.

Thanks!

-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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