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Message-ID: <99d5bcca1d6541a49ff8a9f41f9b18af@BL2FFO11FD039.protection.gbl>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:50:59 -0800
From: Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] PM / sleep: Fix racing timers
On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 03:56PM -0800, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 01:33AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 02, 2014 09:01:15 AM Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> > > Hi Rafael,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for the huge delay.
> >
> > > On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 01:01AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Monday, September 22, 2014 10:07:03 AM Soren Brinkmann wrote:
> > > > > On platforms that do not power off during suspend, successfully entering
> > > > > suspend races with timers.
> > > > >
> > > > > The race happening in a couple of location is:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. disable IRQs (e.g. arch_suspend_disable_irqs())
> > > > > ...
> > > > > 2. syscore_suspend()
> > > > > -> timekeeping_suspend()
> > > > > -> clockevents_notify(SUSPEND)
> > > > > -> tick_suspend() (timers are turned off here)
> > > > > ...
> > > > > 3. wfi (wait for wake-IRQ here)
> > > > >
> > > > > Between steps 1 and 2 the timers can still generate interrupts that are
> > > > > not handled and stay pending until step 3. That pending IRQ causes an
> > > > > immediate - spurious - wake.
> > > > >
> > > > > The solution is to move the clockevents suspend/resume notification
> > > > > out of the syscore_suspend step and explictly call them at the appropriate
> > > > > time in the suspend/hibernation paths. I.e. timers are suspend _before_
> > > > > IRQs get disabled. And accordingly in the resume path.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > there was not a lot of discussion on the last submission. Just one comment from
> > > > > Rafael (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/26/780), which - as I outlined in my
> > > > > response, does not apply, IMHO, since the platform does not re-enable
> > > > > interrupts.
> > > >
> > > > Well, you just don't agree with it.
> > > >
> > > > The problem with your approach is that timer interrupts aren't actually as
> > > > special as you think and any other IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupts would have caused
> > > > similar issues to appear under specific conditions.
> > > >
> > > > The solution I would suggest and that actually covers all IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
> > > > interrupts would be to use a wait_event() loop like the one in freeze_enter()
> > > > (on top of the current linux-next or the pm-genirq branch of linux-pm.git),
> > > > but wait for pm_abort_suspend to become true, to implement system suspend.
> > >
> > > sorry, it took me a while since I needed to get some dependencies ported
> > > to the pm-genirq base. Once I had that, it reproduced my original issue.
> > > So far so good. I then looked into finding a solution following your
> > > guidance. I'm not sure I really found what you had in mind, but below is
> > > what I came up with, which seems to do it.
> > > Please let me know how far off I am.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sören
> > >
> > > -------8<------------------8<----------------8<----------------8<---------------
> > > diff --git a/drivers/base/power/wakeup.c b/drivers/base/power/wakeup.c
> > > index c2744b30d5d9..a4f9914571f1 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/base/power/wakeup.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/base/power/wakeup.c
> > > @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
> > > bool events_check_enabled __read_mostly;
> > >
> > > /* If set and the system is suspending, terminate the suspend. */
> > > -static bool pm_abort_suspend __read_mostly;
> > > +bool pm_abort_suspend __read_mostly;
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * Combined counters of registered wakeup events and wakeup events in progress.
> > > diff --git a/kernel/power/suspend.c b/kernel/power/suspend.c
> > > index 6dadb25cb0d8..e6a6de8f76d0 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/power/suspend.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/power/suspend.c
> > > @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
> > >
> > > static const char *pm_labels[] = { "mem", "standby", "freeze", };
> > > const char *pm_states[PM_SUSPEND_MAX];
> > > +extern bool pm_abort_suspend;
> > >
> > > static const struct platform_suspend_ops *suspend_ops;
> > > static const struct platform_freeze_ops *freeze_ops;
> > > @@ -294,25 +295,27 @@ static int suspend_enter(suspend_state_t state, bool *wakeup)
> > > if (error || suspend_test(TEST_CPUS))
> > > goto Enable_cpus;
> > >
> > > - arch_suspend_disable_irqs();
> > > - BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> > > -
> > > - error = syscore_suspend();
> > > - if (!error) {
> > > - *wakeup = pm_wakeup_pending();
> > > - if (!(suspend_test(TEST_CORE) || *wakeup)) {
> > > - trace_suspend_resume(TPS("machine_suspend"),
> > > - state, true);
> > > - error = suspend_ops->enter(state);
> > > - trace_suspend_resume(TPS("machine_suspend"),
> > > - state, false);
> > > - events_check_enabled = false;
> > > + while (!pm_abort_suspend) {
> >
> > That won't work in general, because pm_abort_suspend may not be set on some
> > platforms on wakeup. It is only set if a wakeup interrupt triggers which
> > may not be the case on ACPI systems if the BIOS has woken up the system.
> >
> > But that could be addressed by making those platforms simply set pm_wakeup_pending
> > in their BIOS exit path.
> >
> > > + arch_suspend_disable_irqs();
> > > + BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> > > +
> > > + error = syscore_suspend();
> >
> > Also it shouldn't be necessary to do syscore_suspend()/syscore_resume() in
> > every iteration of the loop.
> >
> > > + if (!error) {
> > > + *wakeup = pm_wakeup_pending();
> >
> > Plus pm_wakeup_pending() returns true if pm_abort_suspend is set
> >
> > > + if (!(suspend_test(TEST_CORE) || *wakeup)) {
> > > + trace_suspend_resume(TPS("machine_suspend"),
> > > + state, true);
> >
> > Did you try to add the loop here instead of above? Like:
> >
> > for (;;) {
> > *wakeup = pm_wakeup_pending();
> > if (*wakeup)
> > break;
>
> I think, that doesn't work. I chose the start/end points of the loop
> to include the IRQ enable/disable calls. AFAICT, pm_abort_suspend is
> set in an ISR. Without enabling interrupts the abort condition of
> this loop never becomes true.
Any further ideas how to resolve this?
Sören
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