Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.kernel > #1504441

Re: [PATCH 2/2] PM / sleep: don't suspend parent when async child suspend_{noirq,early} fails

From Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] PM / sleep: don't suspend parent when async child suspend_{noirq,early} fails
Date 2016-10-20 02:50 +0200
Message-ID <su9It-iF-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <su9p8-cb-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <su9p8-cb-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


Ugh, as I hope the patch context makes clear, the subject should be

s/early/late/

as should the body of the commit message.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:26:10PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Consider two devices, A and B, where B is a child of A, and B utilizes
> asynchronous suspend (it does not matter whether A is sync or async). If
> B fails to suspend_noirq() or suspend_early(), or is interrupted by a

s/early/late/

> wakeup (pm_wakeup_pending()), then it aborts and sets the async_error
> variable. However, device A does not (immediately) check the async_error
> variable; it may continue to run its own suspend_noirq()/suspend_early()

s/early/late/

> callback. This is bad.
> 
> We can resolve this problem by checking the async_error flag after
> waiting for children to suspend, using the same logic for the noirq and
> late suspend cases as we already do for __device_suspend().
> 
> It's easy to observe this erroneous behavior by, for example, forcing a
> device to sleep a bit in its suspend_noirq() (to ensure the parent is
> waiting for the child to complete), then return an error, and watch the
> parent suspend_noirq() still get called. (Or similarly, fake a wakeup
> event at the right (or is it wrong?) time.)
> 
> Fixes: de377b397272 ("PM / sleep: Asynchronous threads for suspend_late")
> Fixes: 28b6fd6e3779 ("PM / sleep: Asynchronous threads for suspend_noirq")
> Reported-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>

If the patch is otherwise acceptable, feel free to make the above edits.
Or I can fix them up if I send v2.

Sorry for the noise,
Brian

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

[PATCH 2/2] PM / sleep: don't suspend parent when async child suspend_{noirq,early} fails Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> - 2016-10-20 02:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] PM / sleep: don't suspend parent when async child  suspend_{noirq,early} fails Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> - 2016-10-20 02:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] PM / sleep: don't suspend parent when async child  suspend_{noirq,early} fails Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 03:00 +0200

csiph-web