linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 5/5] arm64: Use SYSTEM_OFF2 PSCI call to power off for hibernate

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:12:44 +0000
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 5/5] arm64: Use SYSTEM_OFF2 PSCI call to power
 off for hibernate

On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 16:02 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:59:06 +0000,
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +static void __init psci_init_system_off2(void)
> > +{
> > +       int ret;
> > +
> > +       ret = psci_features(PSCI_FN_NATIVE(1_3, SYSTEM_OFF2));
> > +
> > +       if (ret != PSCI_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED)
> > +               psci_system_off2_supported = true;
> 
> It'd be worth considering the (slightly broken) case where SYSTEM_OFF2
> is supported, but HIBERNATE_OFF is not set in the response, as the
> spec doesn't say that this bit is mandatory (it seems legal to
> implement SYSTEM_OFF2 without any hibernate type, making it similar to
> SYSTEM_OFF).

Such is not my understanding. If SYSTEM_OFF2 is supported, then
HIBERNATE_OFF *is* mandatory.

The next update to the spec is turning the PSCI_FEATURES response into
a *bitmap* of the available features, and I believe it will mandate
that bit zero is set.

And if for whatever reason that SYSTEM_OFF2/HIBERNATE_OFF call
*doesn't* work, Linux will end up doing a 'real' poweroff, first
through EFI and then finally as a last resort with a PSCI SYSTEM_OFF.
So it would be OK to have false positives in the detection.

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