Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] PM: Implement autosleep and "wake locks"

Arve Hjønnevåg
2012-02-15T05:57:47Z

2012/2/14 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>:
> On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>> ...
>> but the wake-source timeout feature has some bugs or incompatible apis. An
>> init api would also be useful for embedding wake-sources in other data
>> structures without adding another memory allocation. Your patch to
>> move the spinlock init to wakeup_source_add still require the struct
>> to be zero initialized and the name set manually.
>
> That should be easy to fix.  What about the appended patch?
>

That works, but I still have to call more than one function before I
can use the wakeup-source (wakeup_source_init and wakeup_source_add)
and more than one function before I can free it (__pm_relax,
wakeup_source_remove and wakeup_source_drop). Is there any reason to
keep these separate?

Also, not copying the name when the caller provides the memory for the
wakeup-source would be a closer match to the wakelock api. Most of our
wakelocks pass a string constant as the name, and making a copy of
that string is not useful. wake_lock_init is also safe to call from
atomic context, but I don't know if anyone relies on this.

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Arve Hjønnevåg