From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous resume after abort Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:06:43 +0200 Message-ID: <201009022306.43470.rjw@sisk.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Colin Cross Cc: Randy Dunlap , Len Brown , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Andrew Morton List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, September 02, 2010, Colin Cross wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Colin Cross wrote: > > > >> >> I think it would be better to change device_pm_init() and add a > >> >> complete_all(). > >> > > >> > I agree. > >> That would work, and was my first solution, but it increases the > >> reliance on the completion variable being left completed between state > >> transitions, which is undocumented and unnecessary. It seems more > >> straightforward to me to only wait on the parent if the parent is > >> suspended. > > > > How about calling complete_all() from within dpm_prepare() as well? > > Then it will get initialized properly at the beginning of every sleep > > transition. > That would work, but I still don't see why it's better. With either > of your changes, the power.completion variable is storing state, and > not just used for notification. However, the exact meaning of that > state is unclear, especially during the transition from an aborted > suspend to resume, and the state is duplicating power.status. Setting > it to complete in dpm_prepare is especially confusing, because at that > point nothing is completed, it hasn't even been started. It just sets the initial value. But I agree it would be cleaner to do that during the initialization. Thanks, Rafael