Re: [PATCH] Revert "xen/acpi-processor: fix enabling interrupts on syscore_resume"

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>]

On 29/09/14 16:07, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:56:14PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> On 29/09/14 15:51, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> This reverts commit cd979883b9ede90643e019f33cb317933eb867b4.
>>>
>>> As it actually never gets called on the initial domain when
>>> resuming. That is after we suspend and go in resume, the
>>> do_suspend (from manage.c) is never called (it is if it
>>> was running as a guest)- so the 'resume' functionality of the driver
>>> was never called.
>>>
>>> Which means that this whole patch was pointless (well, it did
>>> remove the WARNING splat).
>>>
>>> This patch reverts the patch and allows the C and P states to
>>> be uploaded to the hypervisor on ACPI S3 resume of the
>>> initial domain. It sadly brings back the WARNING splat which
>>> will have to be dealt with at some point.
>>
>> Incorrectly enabling interrupts in contexts where this is not permitted
>> is not just harmless "WARNING splat".
>>
>> This has been broken since 3.15-rc1 without anyone else noticing so I
>> think we can afford to take a bit more time and fix the original bug
>> properly.
> 
> That certainly can be done (perhaps as a next patch). But that won't get
> done by for a good month or so (-EOVERLOADED).

I think we can wait for a month or two for a proper fix.

David