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From: "Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] intel_idle: Add ->enter_freeze callbacks
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:09:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F79EA6.2030605@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2502414.MyBzvuWGMR@vostro.rjw.lan>

On 2015/3/5 8:18, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, March 05, 2015 07:50:26 AM Li, Aubrey wrote:
>> On 2015/2/13 0:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Thursday, February 12, 2015 02:26:43 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why bother with enter_freeze() for any but the deepest state (C6 in this
>>>> case)?
>>>
>>> User space may disable the deepest one (and any of them in general) via sysfs
>>> and there's no good reason to ignore its choice in this particular case while
>>> we're honoring it otherwise.
>>>
>>> So the logic is basically "find the deepest one which isn't disabled" and
>>> setting the pointers costs us nothing really.
>>>
>>
>> If the user has chance to disable C6 via /sys, that means c6 works?
>> Shouldn't we ignore user space setting during freeze? Otherwise, we will
>> lost S0ix?
> 
> We can't ignore it, because we don't know the reason why the state was
> disabled.
> 

> It may just not work reliably enough on the given platform.
>
okay, make sense to me. Thanks, -Aubrey


  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-05  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-11  4:00 [PATCH 0/6] PM / sleep: Support for quiescing timers during suspend-to-idle Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-11  4:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] PM / sleep: Re-implement suspend-to-idle handling Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-12 13:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-12 16:18     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-12 22:33   ` [Update][PATCH 1/6 v2] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-11  4:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] timekeeping: Pass readout base to update_fast_timekeeper() Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-13  0:29   ` John Stultz
2015-02-11  4:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] timekeeping: Make it safe to use the fast timekeeper while suspended Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-13  0:53   ` John Stultz
2015-02-13  2:03     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-13  2:59       ` Travis
2015-02-13  9:03       ` John Stultz
2015-02-13 14:32         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-14 17:30           ` John Stultz
2015-02-11  4:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-12 13:24   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-12 16:19     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-12 22:36   ` [Update][PATCH 4/6 v2] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-11  4:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] intel_idle: Add ->enter_freeze callbacks Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-12 13:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-12 16:24     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-12 16:25       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-04 23:50       ` Li, Aubrey
2015-03-05  0:18         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-05  0:09           ` Li, Aubrey [this message]
2015-02-11  4:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] ACPI / idle: Implement ->enter_freeze callback routine Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-02-13  8:13 ` [PATCH 0/6] PM / sleep: Support for quiescing timers during suspend-to-idle Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-13 14:29   ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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