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 1D4EB2C0085 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:17:06 +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: <1C2FF4B5-3F3C-4A9D-941D-A4BC4F5C95DE@kernel.crashing.org> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:16:51 -0500 Message-Id: <287921FF-96B1-4BBC-B9F9-3F8D24244061@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> <1C2FF4B5-3F3C-4A9D-941D-A4BC4F5C95DE@kernel.crashing.org> 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 10, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Kumar Gala wrote: >=20 > On Aug 2, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Zhao Chenhui wrote: >=20 >> 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 >=20 > Benh, Ack? Ben? - k=