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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	sunzhaosheng@hisilicon.com, jean.xupeng@hisilicon.com,
	yuwei3@hisilicon.com, gengyanping@hisilicon.com,
	peter.panshilin@hisilicon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM / wakeup: Remove timer from wakeup_source_remove()
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:04:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190312090430.GA28905@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190312032802.gsheaosu2dtawiyu@vireshk-i7>

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On Tue 2019-03-12 08:58:02, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 11-03-19, 13:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, March 8, 2019 10:53:11 AM CET Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > wakeup_source_remove() is the counterpart of wakeup_source_add() helper
> > > and must undo the initializations done by wakeup_source_add(). Currently
> > > the timer is initialized by wakeup_source_add() but removed from
> > > wakeup_source_drop(), which doesn't look logically correct. Also it
> > > should be okay to call wakeup_source_add() right after calling
> > > wakeup_source_remove(), and in that case we may end up calling
> > > timer_setup() for a potentially scheduled timer which is surely
> > > incorrect.
> > > 
> > > Move the timer removal part to wakeup_source_remove() instead.

> > 
> > I've merged it with the [2/2], rewritten the subject and changelog and
> > queued the result as commit d856f39ac1cc ("PM / wakeup: Rework wakeup
> > source timer cancellation").
> 
> Okay, thanks. We (Android guys) want this to be backported into 4.4+
> kernels via the stable tree. Can we mark this for stable in the commit
> itself ? Else I would be required to send this separately for all the
> kernels. I should have marked it for stable initially though, sorry
> about forgetting then.

Greg is normally pretty agressive about backporting everything
remotely looking like a fix...

But better changelog would help. How is the bug actually affecting
users?

Best regards,
									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-12  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-08  9:53 [PATCH 1/2] PM / wakeup: Remove timer from wakeup_source_remove() Viresh Kumar
2019-03-08  9:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] PM / wakeup: Clear timer.function in wakeup_source_remove() Viresh Kumar
2019-03-11 12:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] PM / wakeup: Remove timer from wakeup_source_remove() Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-03-12  3:28   ` Viresh Kumar
2019-03-12  9:03     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-03-12  9:04     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2019-03-12 11:41       ` Viresh Kumar

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