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From: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>
To: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bp@alien8.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: In kernel hibernation, suspend to both
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 20:49:39 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336560579.2097.32.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAA2673.50007@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 13:40 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > +             error = suspend_devices_and_enter(PM_SUSPEND_MEM);
> 
> 
> I can imagine running into a host of problems here, since the suspend
> sequence is not carried out fully, from the beginning.
> 
> For example, this will skip sending out the PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE and the
> PM_POST_SUSPEND notifiers. Worse, we actually send out the
> PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE
> and PM_POST_HIBERNATION notifiers and then do a suspend instead,
> underneath!
> 
> (Similar cases for the rest of the notifiers sent during suspend vs
> hibernation).
> 
> Don't we need to handle such things properly, in order to make
> suspend-to-both
> work reliably? 

Honest answer - I have absolutely no idea. I've seen the code of
suspend-utils (i.e. user mode stuff) and it seems to me that it does
exactly this. Could be wrong of course, just like many times before.

Rafael?

-- 
Bojan


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-09 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-08 22:22 [PATCH]: In kernel hibernation, suspend to both Bojan Smojver
2012-05-09  8:10 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-09 10:49   ` Bojan Smojver [this message]
2012-05-09 11:11     ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-13 23:32       ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-14  1:02         ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-14  2:25           ` Alan Stern
2012-05-14  2:37             ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-14  2:46               ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-14  2:58                 ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-14  7:45                   ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-14 11:11                     ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-14 11:47                       ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-14 23:59                         ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-15 14:26                           ` Alan Stern
2012-05-15 14:35                           ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-15 17:42                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-05-15 18:23                               ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-15 22:23                               ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-21  4:38                                 ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-21  8:18                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-21 13:18                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-05-21 21:43                                     ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-21 21:53                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-05-21 21:55                                         ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-24 14:51                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-25  2:02                                             ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-31 16:23                                               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-01  2:03                                                 ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-01  8:48                                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-01  8:57                                                     ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-01  9:03                                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-16 13:59                                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-06-16 17:39                                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-16 19:17                                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-06-16 20:09                                                     ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-16 20:19                                                       ` Alan Stern
2012-06-16 23:07                                                         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-17  3:21                                                           ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-17 10:31                                                             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-17 20:21                                                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-06-18  0:33                                                               ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-18 12:32                                                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-18 20:29                                                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-06-18 21:08                                                                     ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-18 21:28                                                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-06-19  2:09                                                                         ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-19 14:21                                                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 14:32                                                                             ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-19 20:23                                                                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-06-19 21:32                                                                                 ` Bojan Smojver
2012-06-19 22:35                                                                         ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-12 21:47     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-05-13  1:37       ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-13 13:10         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-05-13 23:18           ` Bojan Smojver
2012-05-13 23:49             ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2012-05-14  0:39               ` Bojan Smojver

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