linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM / suspend: Count suspend-to-idle loop as sleep time

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Date:   Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:06:31 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     mika.penttila@...tfour.com
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / suspend: Count suspend-to-idle loop as sleep time

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:53 AM Mika Penttilä
<mika.penttila@...tfour.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/14/2018 11:46 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, September 14, 2018 10:28:44 AM CEST Mika Penttilä wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >>
> >> On 09/14/2018 09:59 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> >>>
> >>> There is a difference in behavior between suspend-to-idle and
> >>> suspend-to-RAM in the timekeeping handling that leads to functional
> >>> issues.  Namely, every iteration of the loop in s2idle_loop()
> >>> increases the monotinic clock somewhat, even if timekeeping_suspend()
> >>> and timekeeping_resume() are invoked from s2idle_enter(), and if
> >>> many of them are carried out in a row, the monotonic clock can grow
> >>> significantly while the system is regarded as suspended, which
> >>> doesn't happen during suspend-to-RAM and so it is unexpected and
> >>> leads to confusion and misbehavior in user space (similar to what
> >>> ensued when we tried to combine the boottime and monotonic clocks).
> >>>
> >>> To avoid that, count all iterations of the loop in s2idle_loop()
> >>> as "sleep time" and adjust the clock for that on exit from
> >>> suspend-to-idle.
> >>>
> >>> [That also covers systems on which timekeeping is not suspended
> >>>  by by s2idle_enter().]
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> This is a replacement for https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10599209/
> >>>
> >>> I decided to count the entire loop in s2idle_loop() as "sleep time" as the
> >>> patch is then simpler and it also covers systems where timekeeping is not
> >>> suspended in the final step of suspend-to-idle.
> >>>
> >>> I dropped the "Fixes:" tag, because the monotonic clock delta problem
> >>> has been present on the latter since the very introduction of "freeze"
> >>> (as suspend-to-idle was referred to previously) and so this doesn't fix
> >>> any particular later commits.
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>>  kernel/power/suspend.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
> >>>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> >>>
> >>> Index: linux-pm/kernel/power/suspend.c
> >>> ===================================================================
> >>> --- linux-pm.orig/kernel/power/suspend.c
> >>> +++ linux-pm/kernel/power/suspend.c
> >>> @@ -109,8 +109,12 @@ static void s2idle_enter(void)
> >>>
> >>>  static void s2idle_loop(void)
> >>>  {
> >>> +   ktime_t start, delta;
> >>> +
> >>>     pm_pr_dbg("suspend-to-idle\n");
> >>>
> >>> +   start = ktime_get();
> >>> +
> >>>     for (;;) {
> >>>             int error;
> >>>
> >>> @@ -150,6 +154,20 @@ static void s2idle_loop(void)
> >>>             pm_wakeup_clear(false);
> >>>     }
> >>>
> >>> +   /*
> >>> +    * If the monotonic clock difference between the start of the loop and
> >>> +    * this point is too large, user space may get confused about whether or
> >>> +    * not the system has been suspended and tasks may get killed by
> >>> +    * watchdogs etc., so count the loop as "sleep time" to compensate for
> >>> +    * that.
> >>> +    */
> >>> +   delta = ktime_sub(ktime_get(), start);
> >>> +   if (ktime_to_ns(delta) > 0) {
> >>> +           struct timespec64 timespec64_delta = ktime_to_timespec64(delta);
> >>> +
> >>> +           timekeeping_inject_sleeptime64(&timespec64_delta);
> >>> +   }
> >>
> >> But doesn't injecting sleep time here make monotonic clock too large by the amount of sleeptime?
> >> tick_freeze() / tick_unfreeze() already injects the sleeptime (otherwise delta would be 0).
> >
> > No, it doesn't.
> >
> > The delta here is the extra time taken by the loop which hasn't been counted
> > as sleep time yet.
>
> I said incorrectly monotonic clock, but timekeeping_inject_sleeptime64() forwards the wall time, by the amount of delta.
> Why wouldn't some other cpu update xtime when one cpu is in the loop? And if all cpus enter s2idle, tick_unfreeze()
> injects sleeptime. My point is that this extra injection makes wall time wrong, no?

OK, you're right.  I got that the other way around.

So, the patch is withdrawn.