linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v1 3/3] ARM hibernation / suspend-to-disk

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Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2014 23:28:19 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@...com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@...com>,
	Jonathan Austin <Jonathan.Austin@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 3/3] ARM hibernation / suspend-to-disk

Hi!

> > return from the finisher will always be interpreted as an abort rather
> > than success (because the state has to be unwound.)
> > 
> > This is the only way to get a zero return from cpu_suspend().
> 
> Yes, that's the only reason why this code is jumping to cpu_resume, since
> all it is needed is to snapshot the CPU context and by the time the
> finisher is called that's done. Wanted to say that soft reboot is not
> useful (cache flushing and resume with MMU off), but what you are saying
> is correct. We might be saving swsusp_save return value in a global
> variable and just return from the finisher, but that's horrible and
> given the amount of time it takes to snapshot the image to disk the
> cost of this soft reboot will be dwarfed by that.

I feel bad for the "global variable" trick on x86, and if you can
avoid it, please do!

								Pavel
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