From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D47CC2C0099 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:41:05 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/smp: Do not disable IPI interrupts during suspend Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: <20120802100418.GA13777@localhost.localdomain> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:40:19 -0500 Message-Id: <1C2FF4B5-3F3C-4A9D-941D-A4BC4F5C95DE@kernel.crashing.org> References: <1342788421-27648-1-git-send-email-chenhui.zhao@freescale.com> <5028672F-1873-4E45-AA23-4CA9F191BE77@kernel.crashing.org> <1343427631.21647.1.camel@pasglop> <20120802100418.GA13777@localhost.localdomain> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org list" , Zhao Chenhui , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org list" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Aug 2, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Zhao Chenhui wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 08:20:31AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt = wrote: >> On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 16:58 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >>> On Jul 20, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Zhao Chenhui wrote: >>>=20 >>>> During suspend, all interrupts including IPI will be disabled. In = this case, >>>> the suspend process will hang in SMP. To prevent this, pass the = flag >>>> IRQF_NO_SUSPEND when requesting IPI irq. >>>>=20 >>>> Signed-off-by: Zhao Chenhui >>>> Signed-off-by: Li Yang >>>> --- >>>> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 2 +- >>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >>>=20 >>> BenH, >>>=20 >>> Can you ack? >>=20 >> No I'll merge it but not until it's been in next for a bit unless you >> have some strong emergency there, it's on my mental list of things to >> shovel into next after rc1. >>=20 >> Curiosity: didn't we use to disable all non-boot CPUs on suspend ? >>=20 >> Cheers, >> Ben. >=20 > Yes, we disabled all non-boot CPUs on suspend by calling = disable_nonboot_cpus(). > The disable_nonboot_cpus() needs IPIs to work. But prior to > calling disable_nonboot_cpus(), the IPIs are disabled in = dpm_suspend_noirq(). >=20 > -Chenhui Benh, Ack? - k=