Re: [Resend][PATCH -mm] Hibernation: Enter platform hibernation state in a consistent way (rev. 4)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:14:08 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> +	if (!hibernation_ops)
> +		return -ENOSYS;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * We have cancelled the power transition by running
> +	 * hibernation_ops->finish() before saving the image, so we should let
> +	 * the firmware know that we're going to enter the sleep state after all
> +	 */
> +	error = hibernation_ops->start();
> +	if (error)
> +		return error;
> +
> +	suspend_console();
> +	error = device_suspend(PMSG_SUSPEND);
> +	if (error)
> +		return error;
> +
> +	error = hibernation_ops->prepare();
> +	if (error)
> +		goto Resume_devices;
> +
> +	error = disable_nonboot_cpus();
> +	if (error)
> +		goto Finish;
> +
> +	local_irq_disable();
> +	error = device_power_down(PMSG_SUSPEND);
> +	if (!error) {
> +		hibernation_ops->enter();
> +		/* We should never get here */
> +		while (1);
>  	}
> +	local_irq_enable();
> +

Confused.  afacit there's no way for the caller of this function to know
whether or not suspend_console() was called, so the error recovery doesn't
know whether or not to run resume_console().  How does all that work?