From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Skip all governor-related actions for cpufreq_suspended set Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 23:56:25 +0200 Message-ID: <8218019.txzPhLMNil@vostro.rjw.lan> References: <2044559.GVlD7a2JcO@vostro.rjw.lan> <2346918.2NTGrKGAVB@vostro.rjw.lan> <20160408054414.GE9674@vireshk-i7> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160408054414.GE9674@vireshk-i7> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Viresh Kumar Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux PM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Srinivas Pandruvada List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Friday, April 08, 2016 11:14:14 AM Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 08-04-16, 00:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, April 07, 2016 05:35:03 PM Viresh Kumar wrote: > > > > That's *ugly* and it works by chance, unless I am misreading it > > > completely. > > > > I'm assuming that what you mean by "ugly" here is "not really straightforward", > > which I agree with, > > Yeah. > > > but then it is really disappointing to see comments like > > that from you about the code that you helped to write. > > I was just trying to say that this isn't how I feel it should be done. > :( Fair enough. > > Moreover, runtime CPU offline *also* doesn't have to run the governor exit/init > > for the same reason why the policy directory doesn't have to be removed on > > CPU offline: it is just pointless to do that. The governor has been stopped > > already and it won't do anything more. The only problem here is to prevent > > governor tunable sysfs attributes from triggering actions in that state, > > but that shouldn't be too difficult to arrange for. If that's done, > > Isn't that already guaranteed as userspace should have been frozen by > by the time we reach cpufreq_suspend()? For the "offline/online during suspend/resume" case it is guaranteed, but for the "runtime offline/online" case it isn't. I essentially would like those two cases to be as similar as reasonably possible, if not identical. Thanks, Rafael