From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752231AbaJ1SXP (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:23:15 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:43397 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750892AbaJ1SXO (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:23:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 19:23:12 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Guenter Roeck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Alexander Graf , Andrew Morton , Geert Uytterhoeven , Heiko Stuebner , Lee Jones , Len Brown , Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9tornaz?= , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Romain Perier Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] kernel: Add support for power-off handler call chain Message-ID: <20141028182312.GA13636@amd> References: <1414516266-4965-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1414516266-4965-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue 2014-10-28 10:11:06, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Various drivers implement architecture and/or device specific means to > power off the system. For the most part, those drivers set the global > variable pm_power_off to point to a function within the driver. > > This mechanism has a number of drawbacks. Typically only one scheme > to remove power is supported (at least if pm_power_off is used). > At least in theory there can be multiple means remove power, some of > which may be less desirable. For example, some mechanisms may only > power off the CPU or the CPU card, while another may power off the > entire system. Others may really just execute a restart sequence > or drop into the ROM monitor. Using pm_power_off can also be racy > if the function pointer is set from a driver built as module, as the > driver may be in the process of being unloaded when pm_power_off is > called. If there are multiple power-off handlers in the system, removing > a module with such a handler may inadvertently reset the pointer to > pm_power_off to NULL, leaving the system with no means to remove power. > > Introduce a system power-off handler call chain to solve the described > problems. This call chain is expected to be executed from the architecture > specific machine_power_off() function. Drivers and architeceture code > providing system power-off functionality are expected to register with > this call chain. When registering a power-off handler, callers can > provide a priority to control power-off handler execution sequence > and thus ensure that the power-off handler with the optimal capabilities > to remove power for a given system is called first. > > Cc: Alan Cox > Cc: Alexander Graf > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven > cc: Heiko Stuebner > Cc: Lee Jones > Cc: Len Brown Acked-by: Pavel Machek -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html