linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] PM: sleep: Restore asynchronous device resume optimization

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0hn=KgaWn9pwtLsH2a8n61BNxzb1xrNoxUfEi3o9OAZGw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 11:38:59 +0100
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, 
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@...ux.intel.com>, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>, 
	Naohiro.Aota@....com, kernel-team@...a.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] PM: sleep: Restore asynchronous device resume optimization

On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 11:31 AM Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski@...sung.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> On 09.01.2024 17:59, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >   From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> >
> > Before commit 7839d0078e0d ("PM: sleep: Fix possible deadlocks in core
> > system-wide PM code"), the resume of devices that were allowed to resume
> > asynchronously was scheduled before starting the resume of the other
> > devices, so the former did not have to wait for the latter unless
> > functional dependencies were present.
> >
> > Commit 7839d0078e0d removed that optimization in order to address a
> > correctness issue, but it can be restored with the help of a new device
> > power management flag, so do that now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > ---
>
> This patch finally landed in linux-next some time ago as 3e999770ac1c
> ("PM: sleep: Restore asynchronous device resume optimization"). Recently
> I found that it causes a non-trivial interaction with commit
> 5797b1c18919 ("workqueue: Implement system-wide nr_active enforcement
> for unbound workqueues"). Since merge commit 954350a5f8db in linux-next
> system suspend/resume fails (board doesn't wake up) on my old Samsung
> Exynos4412-based Odroid-U3 board (ARM 32bit based), which was rock
> stable for last years.
>
> My further investigations confirmed that the mentioned commits are
> responsible for this issue. Each of them separately (3e999770ac1c and
> 5797b1c18919) doesn't trigger any problems. Reverting any of them on top
> of linux-next (with some additional commit due to code dependencies)
> also fixes/hides the problem.
>
> Let me know if You need more information or tests on the hardware. I'm
> open to help debugging this issue.

If you echo 0 to /sys/power/pm_async before suspending the system,
does it still fail?