Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread

Pavel Machek
2010-08-04T21:15:13Z

Hi!

> > > > If this doesn't work for the Android folks for whatever reason, another
> > > > approach would be to do the freeze in user code, which could track
> > > > whether any user-level resources (pthread mutexes, SysV semas, whatever)
> > > > where held, and do the freeze on a thread-by-thread basis within each
> > > > "victim" application as the threads reach safe points.
> > >
> > > The main problem I see with the cgroups solution is that it doesn't seem
> > > to do anything to handle avoiding loss of wakeup events.
> >
> > In different message, Arve said they are actually using low-power idle
> > to emulate suspend on Android.
>
> Hello, Pavel,
>
> Could you please point me at this message?

AFAICT, this tells us that idle and suspend is the same hardware state
on current Android hardware:
Pavel

Message-ID: <AANLkTinjH0C0bSK=Y2wKASnbJFsR2BN303xBXkaHbmRC@mail.gmail.com>

Arve said:

If you just program the alarm you will wake up see that the monotonic
clock has not advanced and set the alarm another n seconds into the
future. Or are proposing that suspend should be changed to keep the
monotonic clock running? If you are, why? We can enter the same
hardware states from idle, and modifying suspend to wake up more often
would increase the average power consumption in suspend, not improve
it for idle. In other words, if suspend wakes up as often as idle, why
use suspend?

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