linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] suspend: delete sys

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Date:	Sat, 9 May 2015 15:59:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] suspend: delete sys_sync()

On Fri, 8 May 2015, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> My current view on that is that whether or not to do a sync() before suspending
> ultimately is a policy decision and should belong to user space as such (modulo
> the autosleep situation when user space may not know when the suspend is going
> to happen).
> 
> Moreover, user space is free to do as many sync()s before suspending as it
> wants to and the question here is whether or not the *kernel* should sync()
> in the suspend code path.
> 
> Since we pretty much can demonstrate that having just one sync() in there is
> not sufficient in general, should we put two of them in there?  Or just
> remove the existing one and leave it to user space entirely?

I don't know about the advantages of one sync over two.  But how about
adding a "syncs_before_suspend" (or just "syncs") sysfs attribute that
takes a small numeric value?  The default can be 0, and the user could
set it to 1 or 2 (or higher).

Alan Stern

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