linux-kernel - Re: [V3 PATCH 4/4] scsi:stex.c Add S3/S4 support

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Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:02:33 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
To:	Charles Chiou <ch1102chiou@...il.com>
Cc:	JBottomley@...allels.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, grace.chang@...promise.com,
	victor.p@...mise.com, ed.lin@...mise.com
Subject: Re: [V3 PATCH 4/4] scsi:stex.c Add S3/S4 support

On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 09:38 +0800, Charles Chiou wrote:
>  From 91868d4afe10533b8a4496075109e411100217bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Charles Chiou <charles.chiou@...promise.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:15:18 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] scsi:stex.c Add S3/S4 support
> 
> Add S3/S4 support, add .suspend and .resume function in pci_driver.
> 
> Pegasus need 30~40 seconds to boot up. We don't want to OS wait
> in .resume function. Create a thread to handle device boot up.
> 

> +static int stex_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> +	struct st_hba *hba = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
> +	struct hba_handshake_workstruct *hswork;
> +	int sts;
> +
> +	hba->mu_status = MU_STATE_STARTING;
> +	hswork = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hba_handshake_workstruct), GFP_KERNEL);

The system is coming back from sleep. You cannot swap or page out
as disks may still be asleep. GFP_KERNEL is automatically changed
to GFP_NOIO. It would be nice to outright use GFP_NOIO.

> +	INIT_WORK(&hswork->handshake_work, resume_handshake);

Memory allocations can fail.
I suggest you allocate the memory in suspend(). There you can just
return -ENOMEM in the error case.

	Regards
		Oliver



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