From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PM / sleep: prohibit devices probing during suspend/hibernation Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:07:45 -0800 Message-ID: <20151106020745.GA24550@kroah.com> References: <1445288064-25299-1-git-send-email-grygorii.strashko@ti.com> <19065758.fKD2xM4Ypl@vostro.rjw.lan> <20151106000957.GB10347@kroah.com> <5530449.00gvFOj9K4@vostro.rjw.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51976 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965402AbbKFCHq (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2015 21:07:46 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5530449.00gvFOj9K4@vostro.rjw.lan> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Grygorii Strashko , stern@rowland.harvard.edu, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thierry Reding On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 03:04:10AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, November 05, 2015 04:09:57 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:38:23PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, November 02, 2015 02:25:00 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Monday, October 19, 2015 11:54:24 PM Grygorii Strashko wrote: > > > > > It is unsafe [1] if probing of devices will happen during suspend or > > > > > hibernation and system behavior will be unpredictable in this case > > > > > (for example: after successful probe the device potentially has a different > > > > > set of PM callbacks than before [2]). > > > > > So, let's prohibit device's probing in dpm_prepare() and defer their > > > > > probes instead. The normal behavior will be restored in dpm_complete(). > > > > > > > > > > This patch introduces new DD core APIs: > > > > > device_defer_all_probes_enable() > > > > > It will disable probing of devices and defer their probes. > > > > > device_defer_all_probes_disable() > > > > > It will restore normal behavior and trigger re-probing of deferred > > > > > devices. > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/11/554 > > > > > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/15/1039 > > > > > Cc: Alan Stern > > > > > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki > > > > > Cc: Thierry Reding > > > > > Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko > > > > > > > > Greg, any objections against this one? > > > > > > Greg, if this isn't problematic, I'd still like to take it for v4.4. > > > > What? The merge window for new stuff closed a few weeks ago, how can > > you add this for 4.4 when it needs to be in linux-next for a while > > first? > > Well, it's not really scary and it was posted way before the merge window, > but no one has had the time to look at it since then, apparently. > > Of course, I can queue it up for the next release too. That would be best, thanks. greg k-h