Question about timers during system suspend

Question about timers during system suspend

[Raj Kumar]

Hi,
 
I have question regarding the timers during system suspend. If a software timer is
active in device driver, will this timer be stopped during system suspend?
 
If the timer is active, will it prevent the system from full suspend?
 
The another thing is during system suspend, how the user space code know about suspend?
 
One way is that device driver gets the suspend and it notifies the user space. 
 
But is there way that during system goes into full suspend, is any user space component that will
give notifications to applications that has registered for system suspend transition?
 
 
Regards
Raj 		 	   		  

Re: Question about timers during system suspend

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, January 04, 2011, Raj Kumar wrote:
> 
> Hi,

Hi,

> I have question regarding the timers during system suspend. If a software timer is
> active in device driver, will this timer be stopped during system suspend?

What do you mean by "stopped"?  Do you mean canceled?

> If the timer is active, will it prevent the system from full suspend?

No, it won't.

> The another thing is during system suspend, how the user space code know about suspend?

It doesn't, unless it's notified by the user space process initiating suspend.

> One way is that device driver gets the suspend and it notifies the user space. 

That doesn't work, because user space is frozen when drivers' suspend routines
are being called.  It might work if the driver in question registered a power
management notifier and sent a notification to user space from there.

> But is there way that during system goes into full suspend, is any user space component that will
> give notifications to applications that has registered for system suspend transition?

That depends on the configuration of user space.  pm-utils can do that for one
example.

Thanks,
Rafael

Re: Question about timers during system suspend

[Raj Kumar]

 
Dear rafael,
 
Thanks for quick reply.
 
>> I have question regarding the timers during system suspend. If a software timer is
> > active in device driver, will this timer be stopped during system suspend?
>
> What do you mean by "stopped"? Do you mean canceled?
 
I mean cancel the software timer. But if the software timer is active as you already mentioned it will not prevent
system suspend. I mean to say if the driver has active software timer means software timer is not fired yet and device driver
will return from suspend callback without cancelation software timer and it times out after this
will not prevent system suspend to return error code.
 
right??
 
or is it mandatory to cancel the software timer during suspend callback to device driver?
 
 
Regards
raj
 



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> From: rjw@sisk.pl
> To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Question about timers during system suspend
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 00:05:42 +0100
> CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
>
> On Tuesday, January 04, 2011, Raj Kumar wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > I have question regarding the timers during system suspend. If a software timer is
> > active in device driver, will this timer be stopped during system suspend?
>
> What do you mean by "stopped"? Do you mean canceled?
>
> > If the timer is active, will it prevent the system from full suspend?
>
> No, it won't.
>
> > The another thing is during system suspend, how the user space code know about suspend?
>
> It doesn't, unless it's notified by the user space process initiating suspend.
>
> > One way is that device driver gets the suspend and it notifies the user space.
>
> That doesn't work, because user space is frozen when drivers' suspend routines
> are being called. It might work if the driver in question registered a power
> management notifier and sent a notification to user space from there.
>
> > But is there way that during system goes into full suspend, is any user space component that will
> > give notifications to applications that has registered for system suspend transition?
>
> That depends on the configuration of user space. pm-utils can do that for one
> example.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael 		 	   		  

Re: Question about timers during system suspend

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, January 05, 2011, Raj Kumar wrote:
> 
> Dear rafael,
>  
> Thanks for quick reply.
>  
> >> I have question regarding the timers during system suspend. If a software timer is
> > > active in device driver, will this timer be stopped during system suspend?
> >
> > What do you mean by "stopped"? Do you mean canceled?
>  
> I mean cancel the software timer. But if the software timer is active as you
> already mentioned it will not prevent system suspend. I mean to say if the
> driver has active software timer means software timer is not fired yet and
> device driver will return from suspend callback without cancelation software
> timer and it times out after this will not prevent system suspend to return
> error code.

I'm not really sure what you mean.  If the timer expires right after the
suspend routine has returned, then either the timer function will run
immediately (so you need to take that into consideration), if the timer
interrupt is still enabled at this point, or it will run during resume
(asynchronously with respect to the driver's resume routine).

> right??
>  
> or is it mandatory to cancel the software timer during suspend callback to device driver?

I guess it's better to cancel the timer directly from the suspend routine, but
it is not formally required to do so.

Thanks,
Rafael

 
> ----------------------------------------
> > From: rjw@sisk.pl
> > To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Question about timers during system suspend
> > Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 00:05:42 +0100
> > CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> >
> > On Tuesday, January 04, 2011, Raj Kumar wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I have question regarding the timers during system suspend. If a software timer is
> > > active in device driver, will this timer be stopped during system suspend?
> >
> > What do you mean by "stopped"? Do you mean canceled?
> >
> > > If the timer is active, will it prevent the system from full suspend?
> >
> > No, it won't.
> >
> > > The another thing is during system suspend, how the user space code know about suspend?
> >
> > It doesn't, unless it's notified by the user space process initiating suspend.
> >
> > > One way is that device driver gets the suspend and it notifies the user space.
> >
> > That doesn't work, because user space is frozen when drivers' suspend routines
> > are being called. It might work if the driver in question registered a power
> > management notifier and sent a notification to user space from there.
> >
> > > But is there way that during system goes into full suspend, is any user space component that will
> > > give notifications to applications that has registered for system suspend transition?
> >
> > That depends on the configuration of user space. pm-utils can do that for one
> > example.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael 		 	   		  
> 

Question about hibernation

[Raj Kumar]

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Hi,

I have following question regarding the hibernation. If a device driver uses dedicated memory (dedicated memory in linux which is not OS addressable e.g. device driver is using some pages from dedicated memory), When the system hibernates, will this be responsibility of device driver to save this area 
or 
OS hibernation procedure save this area of ram (dedicated memory area) into swap image?

Thanks
Raj  
 		 	   		  

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Re: Question about hibernation

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Freitag, 18. März 2011, 14:45:24 schrieb Raj Kumar:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have following question regarding the hibernation. If a device driver uses dedicated memory (dedicated memory in linux which is not OS addressable e.g. device driver is using some pages from dedicated memory), When the system hibernates, will this be responsibility of device driver to save this area 
> or 
> OS hibernation procedure save this area of ram (dedicated memory area) into swap image?

If you got it from get_free_pages (at the end of a long call chain) the
kernel saves it. If not, it is your problem.

	HTH
		Oliver

Re: Question about hibernation

[Raj Kumar]

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Hi,
 
Thanks for reply. What if memory is allocated using dma_alloc_coherent where the physical address is from dedicated area of RAM(which is not addressable by OS)? I also believe that all the buffers and state variables are taken care by OS kernel. Right?
 
Thanks
Raj
 

 
> From: oneukum@suse.de
> To: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Question about hibernation
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:09:02 +0100
> CC: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> 
> Am Freitag, 18. März 2011, 14:45:24 schrieb Raj Kumar:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have following question regarding the hibernation. If a device driver uses dedicated memory (dedicated memory in linux which is not OS addressable e.g. device driver is using some pages from dedicated memory), When the system hibernates, will this be responsibility of device driver to save this area 
> > or 
> > OS hibernation procedure save this area of ram (dedicated memory area) into swap image?
> 
> If you got it from get_free_pages (at the end of a long call chain) the
> kernel saves it. If not, it is your problem.
> 
> HTH
> Oliver
 		 	   		  

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Re: Question about hibernation

[Raj Kumar]

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Hi Rafael,
 
I am working on device driver whose some part is user space and some part is kernel space. So the user space part
of the driver provides interface to user space applications. 
1) Now, Suppose some user space is application is going on which is accessing the user space driver and user space driver
scheduled some jobs to kernel space, Now suppose system hibernation start, since it freezes all the user space processes
so suppose jobs are not completed yet which are scheduled to kernel space by user space.
 
when the kernel space device driver completes the jobs and gives the notification to user space driver, since user space
process is already frozen, so there will be problem if we suspend the driver using suspend and resume.
 
right?
 
2) The other point I was seeing, when the power management core freezes all the processes before suspending and resuming
devices, it will take some time for freezing and after that if some device driver refuses to suspend, then it will again resume
the whole processes, so latency time be more. right?
 
3) Next question is regarding the kernel space threads, when these are frozen during suspend/hibernation?
 
Thanks
Raj
 
 
 
 
 
 
> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 00:43:30 +0200
> From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
> Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Question about hibernation
> To: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Message-ID: <201010060043.30489.rjw@sisk.pl>
> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-2"
> 
> On Tuesday, October 05, 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Alan,
> > 
> > I have question regarding the hibernation mode in linux. 
> > 
> > 1) In normal suspend to ram, is freezing of tasks necessary while suspend to ram in current linux power management core?
> 
> Yes, it is.
> 
> > 2) In hibernation mode, is freezing of tasks done before normal suspend/resumes in order to that hibernation image is in sync?
> 
> That depends on what you mean by normal "suspend/resumes". Generally speaking,
> the hibernate code freezes tasks before preallocating image memory.
> 
> > My issue is because it might be possible that there is some part of device driver which is user space and another part is kernel space
> > then in suspend to ram and hibernation mode is freezing of all user space part is done before kernel side or it differs while
> > suspend to ram and hibernation mode?
> 
> User space is always frozen before suspend and hibernation.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 
> 
 		 	   		  

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Re: Question about hibernation

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, October 08, 2010, you wrote:
> 
> Hi Rafael,

Hi,

> I am working on device driver whose some part is user space and some part is kernel space. So the user space part
> of the driver provides interface to user space applications. 
> 1) Now, Suppose some user space is application is going on which is accessing the user space driver and user space driver
> scheduled some jobs to kernel space, Now suppose system hibernation start, since it freezes all the user space processes
> so suppose jobs are not completed yet which are scheduled to kernel space by user space.
>  
> when the kernel space device driver completes the jobs and gives the notification to user space driver, since user space
> process is already frozen, so there will be problem if we suspend the driver using suspend and resume.
>  
> right?

Yes, there's going to be a problem if the driver is not prepared to handle such situations.

Depending of the particular case, one possible approach is to use a PM notifier
as described in Documentation/power/notifiers.txt.

> 2) The other point I was seeing, when the power management core freezes all the processes before suspending and resuming
> devices, it will take some time for freezing and after that if some device driver refuses to suspend, then it will again resume
> the whole processes, so latency time be more. right?

Yes, it works as described.

> 3) Next question is regarding the kernel space threads, when these are frozen during suspend/hibernation?

They are frozen immediately after user space has been frozen, but only a
handful of kernel threads are frozen.

Thanks,
Rafael

Re: Question about hibernation

[Raj Kumar]

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Hi Rafael,
 
1) I have question on system resume that e.g. in device driver let us say for example structure is defined global,
e.g.
 
struct dev
{
int a;
 
} dev_t;
 
 
this structure is global. Now during system suspend, suppose the value of 
 
dev_t.a =2;
 
So when the resume happens, will the dev_t.a will remain the same i.e. 2?
 
2) During the system suspend, if the system hibernates, then the message sent from power management core to all drivers is
PMSG_HIBERNATE and if system suspends to ram, then message sent from power management core to all drivers is PMSG_SUSPEND.
 
correct me if I am wrong.
 
Regards
Raj
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
> From: rjw@sisk.pl
> To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Question about hibernation
> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:31:48 +0200
> CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> 
> On Friday, October 08, 2010, you wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Rafael,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I am working on device driver whose some part is user space and some part is kernel space. So the user space part
> > of the driver provides interface to user space applications. 
> > 1) Now, Suppose some user space is application is going on which is accessing the user space driver and user space driver
> > scheduled some jobs to kernel space, Now suppose system hibernation start, since it freezes all the user space processes
> > so suppose jobs are not completed yet which are scheduled to kernel space by user space.
> > 
> > when the kernel space device driver completes the jobs and gives the notification to user space driver, since user space
> > process is already frozen, so there will be problem if we suspend the driver using suspend and resume.
> > 
> > right?
> 
> Yes, there's going to be a problem if the driver is not prepared to handle such situations.
> 
> Depending of the particular case, one possible approach is to use a PM notifier
> as described in Documentation/power/notifiers.txt.
> 
> > 2) The other point I was seeing, when the power management core freezes all the processes before suspending and resuming
> > devices, it will take some time for freezing and after that if some device driver refuses to suspend, then it will again resume
> > the whole processes, so latency time be more. right?
> 
> Yes, it works as described.
> 
> > 3) Next question is regarding the kernel space threads, when these are frozen during suspend/hibernation?
> 
> They are frozen immediately after user space has been frozen, but only a
> handful of kernel threads are frozen.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
 		 	   		  

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Re: Question about hibernation

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, October 14, 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:
> 
> Hi Rafael,
>  
> 1) I have question on system resume that e.g. in device driver let us say for example structure is defined global,
> e.g.
>  
> struct dev
> {
> int a;
>  
> } dev_t;
>  
>  
> this structure is global. Now during system suspend, suppose the value of 
>  
> dev_t.a =2;
>  
> So when the resume happens, will the dev_t.a will remain the same i.e. 2?

Yes, it will.  For hibernation, the contents of all memory from before the image
was created is restored during resume.

> 2) During the system suspend, if the system hibernates, then the message sent from power management core to all drivers is
> PMSG_HIBERNATE and if system suspends to ram, then message sent from power management core to all drivers is PMSG_SUSPEND.

That was in the old model, which isn't recommended any more.

Currently, it is recommended that drivers implement callbacks in struct dev_pm_ops,
as described in Documentation/power/devices.txt and Documentation/power/pci.txt.

Thanks,
Rafael

  
> > From: rjw@sisk.pl
> > To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: Question about hibernation
> > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:31:48 +0200
> > CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> > 
> > On Friday, October 08, 2010, you wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi Rafael,
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > I am working on device driver whose some part is user space and some part is kernel space. So the user space part
> > > of the driver provides interface to user space applications. 
> > > 1) Now, Suppose some user space is application is going on which is accessing the user space driver and user space driver
> > > scheduled some jobs to kernel space, Now suppose system hibernation start, since it freezes all the user space processes
> > > so suppose jobs are not completed yet which are scheduled to kernel space by user space.
> > > 
> > > when the kernel space device driver completes the jobs and gives the notification to user space driver, since user space
> > > process is already frozen, so there will be problem if we suspend the driver using suspend and resume.
> > > 
> > > right?
> > 
> > Yes, there's going to be a problem if the driver is not prepared to handle such situations.
> > 
> > Depending of the particular case, one possible approach is to use a PM notifier
> > as described in Documentation/power/notifiers.txt.
> > 
> > > 2) The other point I was seeing, when the power management core freezes all the processes before suspending and resuming
> > > devices, it will take some time for freezing and after that if some device driver refuses to suspend, then it will again resume
> > > the whole processes, so latency time be more. right?
> > 
> > Yes, it works as described.
> > 
> > > 3) Next question is regarding the kernel space threads, when these are frozen during suspend/hibernation?
> > 
> > They are frozen immediately after user space has been frozen, but only a
> > handful of kernel threads are frozen.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
>  		 	   		  

Re: Question about hibernation

[Raj Kumar]

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Hi Rafael,
 
Thanks for your quick reply.  
 
1) I already implemented this with dev_pm_ops. I used suspend and resume callbacks
whose prototype is like
 
struct dev_pm_ops power_mgmt_ops
{
   .suspend =  powermanagement_suspend,
   .resume =  powermanagement_resume
 
}
 
int powermanagement_suspend(device *dev)
{
 
}
 
In normal suspend to ram mode it will work. But will it work in case of hibernation also?
 
if yes, since in suspend and resume call backs, only the device structure is provided, so how can
then person can identify it is suspend to ram or hibernation?
 
or for hibernation, poweroff  and restore function should be implemented which is similar
to suspend and resume call backs in case of suspend to ram?
 
Regards
Raj
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
> From: rjw@sisk.pl
> To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Question about hibernation
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:51:05 +0200
> CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> 
> On Thursday, October 14, 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Rafael,
> > 
> > 1) I have question on system resume that e.g. in device driver let us say for example structure is defined global,
> > e.g.
> > 
> > struct dev
> > {
> > int a;
> > 
> > } dev_t;
> > 
> > 
> > this structure is global. Now during system suspend, suppose the value of 
> > 
> > dev_t.a =2;
> > 
> > So when the resume happens, will the dev_t.a will remain the same i.e. 2?
> 
> Yes, it will. For hibernation, the contents of all memory from before the image
> was created is restored during resume.
> 
> > 2) During the system suspend, if the system hibernates, then the message sent from power management core to all drivers is
> > PMSG_HIBERNATE and if system suspends to ram, then message sent from power management core to all drivers is PMSG_SUSPEND.
> 
> That was in the old model, which isn't recommended any more.
> 
> Currently, it is recommended that drivers implement callbacks in struct dev_pm_ops,
> as described in Documentation/power/devices.txt and Documentation/power/pci.txt.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 
> 
> > > From: rjw@sisk.pl
> > > To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> > > Subject: Re: Question about hibernation
> > > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:31:48 +0200
> > > CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> > > 
> > > On Friday, October 08, 2010, you wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Rafael,
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > I am working on device driver whose some part is user space and some part is kernel space. So the user space part
> > > > of the driver provides interface to user space applications. 
> > > > 1) Now, Suppose some user space is application is going on which is accessing the user space driver and user space driver
> > > > scheduled some jobs to kernel space, Now suppose system hibernation start, since it freezes all the user space processes
> > > > so suppose jobs are not completed yet which are scheduled to kernel space by user space.
> > > > 
> > > > when the kernel space device driver completes the jobs and gives the notification to user space driver, since user space
> > > > process is already frozen, so there will be problem if we suspend the driver using suspend and resume.
> > > > 
> > > > right?
> > > 
> > > Yes, there's going to be a problem if the driver is not prepared to handle such situations.
> > > 
> > > Depending of the particular case, one possible approach is to use a PM notifier
> > > as described in Documentation/power/notifiers.txt.
> > > 
> > > > 2) The other point I was seeing, when the power management core freezes all the processes before suspending and resuming
> > > > devices, it will take some time for freezing and after that if some device driver refuses to suspend, then it will again resume
> > > > the whole processes, so latency time be more. right?
> > > 
> > > Yes, it works as described.
> > > 
> > > > 3) Next question is regarding the kernel space threads, when these are frozen during suspend/hibernation?
> > > 
> > > They are frozen immediately after user space has been frozen, but only a
> > > handful of kernel threads are frozen.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rafael
> > 
> 
 		 	   		  

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Re: Question about hibernation

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, October 14, 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:
> 
> Hi Rafael,

Hi,

> Thanks for your quick reply.  
>  
> 1) I already implemented this with dev_pm_ops. I used suspend and resume callbacks
> whose prototype is like
>  
> struct dev_pm_ops power_mgmt_ops
> {
>    .suspend =  powermanagement_suspend,
>    .resume =  powermanagement_resume
>  
> }
>  
> int powermanagement_suspend(device *dev)
> {
>  
> }
>  
> In normal suspend to ram mode it will work. But will it work in case of hibernation also?

It may be sufficient to point hibernate-specific callback pointers to your
suspend/resume routines:
  
 struct dev_pm_ops power_mgmt_ops
 {
    .suspend =  powermanagement_suspend,
    .resume =  powermanagement_resume,
    .freeze =  powermanagement_suspend,
    .thaw =  powermanagement_resume,
    .poweroff =  powermanagement_suspend,
    .restore =  powermanagement_resume,
 }

depending on the particular needs of your driver.

> if yes, since in suspend and resume call backs, only the device structure is provided, so how can
> then person can identify it is suspend to ram or hibernation?

See above.

> or for hibernation, poweroff  and restore function should be implemented which is similar
> to suspend and resume call backs in case of suspend to ram?

Yes.

Thanks,
Rafael

Re: Runtime power management during system resume

[Raj Kumar]

 
Hi,
 
My question is:
 
1) When the system suspends, it invokes pm_runtime_put_sync when complete
callback is called which will again trigger to put device idle
 
means in runtime power management core, the device status is set to RPM_SUSPENDED.
right?
 
2) As you also said that during system resume, it does not increment the power_usage
counter,
 
that is ok, driver will increase the power_usage counter...
 
But will driver also set the state to RPM_ACTIVE means pm_runtime_set_active
 
right?
 
 
3) During hibernation, if the driver is registered using platform_driver_register...
 
When the system hibernates, will power management core call suspend, resume?
 
right?
 
Regards,
Raj
 
 
 
 
 
 


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> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:30:25 -0400
> From: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
> To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Runtime power management during system resume
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> I have implemented the run time power management in my drivers. I have one
>> issue regarding System resume.
>>
>> When the system sleep is triggered as it is mentioned that Power management
>> core will increment the power_usage counter during prepare and decrements when complete
>> is called.
>>
>> Now I have few questions:
>>
>> 1) When the system resume is done, it does not increase the power_usage counter.
>> right?
>
> That's right.
>
>> So Does then the driver need to update the power_usage counter with run time power management
>> core and again set it to active means RPM_ACTIVE?
>
> Read section 6 of Documentation/power/runtime_pm.h. It explains this.
>
>> 2) Suppose device is active, means its power_usage counter is already one, Now during system
>> sleep, does the driver first suspend it with run time power management core and then continue
>> System suspend?
>
> No.
>
>> 3) Because I have seen the code of power management core and I did not see the that during
>> system suspend, run time power management status is updated means RPM_SUSPENDED.
>> right?
>
> I don't understand your question.
>
> Alan Stern
> 		 	   		  

Re: Runtime power management during system resume

[Raj Kumar]

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Hi Alan,

Thanks for quick replies. As you said

 


> >> 2) Suppose device is active, means its power_usage counter is already one, Now during system
> >> sleep, does the driver first suspend it with run time power management core and then continue
> >> System suspend?
> >
{ALAN}  No.

 

 

But since during system suspend power_usage counter is incremented by 1 But if the device is active

means its state is RPM_ACTIVE, its power_usage counter is 1 in run time power management core.

 

when the system suspend happens, it will also increment the power_usage_counter by 1 during dpm_prepare

 

Now   the power_usage_counter is 2.

 

So when dpm_complete is invoked, it will decrement the power_usage_counter by 1 during dpm_complete.

 

So now when the drivers gets system suspend, its power_usage counter is still 1.

 

So what in this scenario, does the device decrements the power_usage counter itself?

 

Thanks

Raj









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> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:30:25 -0400
> > From: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
> > To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> > CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: Runtime power management during system resume
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Alan,
> >>
> >> I have implemented the run time power management in my drivers. I have one
> >> issue regarding System resume.
> >>
> >> When the system sleep is triggered as it is mentioned that Power management
> >> core will increment the power_usage counter during prepare and decrements when complete
> >> is called.
> >>
> >> Now I have few questions:
> >>
> >> 1) When the system resume is done, it does not increase the power_usage counter.
> >> right?
> >
> > That's right.
> >
> >> So Does then the driver need to update the power_usage counter with run time power management
> >> core and again set it to active means RPM_ACTIVE?
> >
> > Read section 6 of Documentation/power/runtime_pm.h. It explains this.
> >
> >> 2) Suppose device is active, means its power_usage counter is already one, Now during system
> >> sleep, does the driver first suspend it with run time power management core and then continue
> >> System suspend?
> >
> > No.
> >
> >> 3) Because I have seen the code of power management core and I did not see the that during
> >> system suspend, run time power management status is updated means RPM_SUSPENDED.
> >> right?
> >
> > I don't understand your question.
> >
> > Alan Stern
> >
 		 	   		  

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Re: Runtime power management during system resume

[Raj Kumar]

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Hi Alan,

 

I have few more questions:

 

1) If the platform device driver is using platform_bus_type as its bus type, in that case is the parent of device is its bus?

 

2) Because I saw the code in platform_device_register, when any platform device is register, its parent is set to

platform bus?

right?

 

int platform_device_add(struct platform_device *pdev)
{

----------------------------------------

if (!pdev->dev.parent)
                pdev->dev.parent = &platform_bus;

------------------------------------------------------

}

 

So when the platform device wants to use parent other than platform bus, is it possible to set the parent

of platform device to any other device rather than platform_bus?

 

 

3) The 3rd question is regarding, in this function

 

int __pm_runtime_resume(struct device *dev, bool from_wq)
        __releases(&dev->power.lock) __acquires(&dev->power.lock)
{

 

-----------------------
        if (dev->bus && dev->bus->pm && dev->bus->pm->runtime_resume) {
                spin_unlock_irq(&dev->power.lock);

                retval = dev->bus->pm->runtime_resume(dev);

                spin_lock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
                dev->power.runtime_error = retval;
        }

 

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 out:
        if (parent) {
                spin_unlock_irq(&dev->power.lock);

                pm_runtime_put(parent);

                spin_lock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
        }

}

 

When the device is resumed and its status is set to RPM_ACTIVE, Now the control comes to 

pm_runtime_put(parent) (suppose device is resumed correctly)

 

Now it decrements the power usage count and call idle for parent.

 

Why after resuming the device, It will try to schedule idle for its parent?

 

Since the device is resumed so its parent should be active.

 

Regards

Raj

 

 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:30:25 -0400
> > From: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
> > To: rajkumar278@hotmail.com
> > CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: Runtime power management during system resume
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Alan,
> >>
> >> I have implemented the run time power management in my drivers. I have one
> >> issue regarding System resume.
> >>
> >> When the system sleep is triggered as it is mentioned that Power management
> >> core will increment the power_usage counter during prepare and decrements when complete
> >> is called.
> >>
> >> Now I have few questions:
> >>
> >> 1) When the system resume is done, it does not increase the power_usage counter.
> >> right?
> >
> > That's right.
> >
> >> So Does then the driver need to update the power_usage counter with run time power management
> >> core and again set it to active means RPM_ACTIVE?
> >
> > Read section 6 of Documentation/power/runtime_pm.h. It explains this.
> >
> >> 2) Suppose device is active, means its power_usage counter is already one, Now during system
> >> sleep, does the driver first suspend it with run time power management core and then continue
> >> System suspend?
> >
> > No.
> >
> >> 3) Because I have seen the code of power management core and I did not see the that during
> >> system suspend, run time power management status is updated means RPM_SUSPENDED.
> >> right?
> >
> > I don't understand your question.
> >
> > Alan Stern
> >

 		 	   		  

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[Raj Kumar]

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Hi Alan,

 

I have question regarding the CPU frequency subsystem through which the frequency of the CPU is scaled.

e.g. If we have device driver (X device contains processor) that wants to scale its own processor based

upon the workload, (DVFS driver for this processor is implemented and registered with cpufreq subsystem)

then X device driver when detects waorkload,  Can this X device driver call policy governor APIS for scaling clock or

this X device driver can directly calls DVFS driver APIs directly?

I just want to know from our device driver how do call DVFS driver if DVFS driver is registered with cpu frequency subsystem?

 

 

 

Regards

Raj 

 
 		 	   		  

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Question about hibernation

[Raj Kumar]

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Hi Alan,
 
I have question regarding the hibernation mode in linux. 
 
1) In normal suspend to ram, is freezing of tasks necessary while suspend to ram in current linux power management core?
2) In hibernation mode, is freezing of tasks done before normal suspend/resumes in order to that hibernation image is in sync?
 
My issue is because it might be possible that there is some part of device driver which is user space and another part is kernel space
then in suspend to ram and hibernation mode is freezing of all user space part is done before kernel side or it differs while
suspend to ram and hibernation mode?
 
Regards
Raj
  		 	   		  

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Re: Question about hibernation

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, October 05, 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:
> 
> Hi Alan,
>  
> I have question regarding the hibernation mode in linux. 
>  
> 1) In normal suspend to ram, is freezing of tasks necessary while suspend to ram in current linux power management core?

Yes, it is.

> 2) In hibernation mode, is freezing of tasks done before normal suspend/resumes in order to that hibernation image is in sync?

That depends on what you mean by normal "suspend/resumes".  Generally speaking,
the hibernate code freezes tasks before preallocating image memory.

> My issue is because it might be possible that there is some part of device driver which is user space and another part is kernel space
> then in suspend to ram and hibernation mode is freezing of all user space part is done before kernel side or it differs while
> suspend to ram and hibernation mode?

User space is always frozen before suspend and hibernation.

Thanks,
Rafael