Re: Totally broken PCI PM calls

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>]

Hi.

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 07:37, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 11 October 2004 2:17 pm, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 02:36, David Brownell wrote:
> > > I've made that point too.  STD is logically a few steps:  quiesce system,
> > > write image to swap, change power state.
> 
> I'm hoping you agree with that abbreviated summary of
> what's involved!  Pavel seemed to.  Of course the devil is
> in the details, which I hope to leave mostly to others ... ;)

It certainly fits for Pavel, but, I do have things slightly different,
so that don't have the maximum-image-size-is-half-of-RAM problem. At the
moment I do:

quiesce system & prepare metadata
suspend devices not used for writing the image or user I/O (this is just
seeking to remove any chance of them allocating memory, which might
strangle writing the image)
write LRU pages ('pageset 2')
suspend used devices
save CPU context & make atomic copy of remaining pages
resume used devices
save image
power down used devices
power down system/enter S4.

This is why I made that 'device tree' patch - so I could separate the
devices used for writing the image from those unused and treat them
separately. I'm pretty sure that I could get away with leaving the
unused ones alone until snapshot time, but it seems more ideal to me to
get them to save state and power down at the start, especially if you're
trying to suspend when the battery is low!

At the very least, I'd like to see that 'snapshot' state implemented
separately to the 'powerdown' state.

> Of course the ACPI spec muddies the water by talking about two
> different states called "S4":  "S4 Sleeping", which is what I was
> talking about as G1/S4; and "S4 Non-Volatile Sleep" that's more
> what I've seen with swusp:  more like a G2 or G3 poweroff.

Okay. I've only looked at the ACPI spec occasionally, and have generally
just followed the lead of Patrick and Pavel in implementing ACPI support
in s-t-d.

> I'm willing to believe that there are systems on which swsusp
> tells drivers a less confusing story ... but I don't seem to have
> tested with those!

:> I'm confused by all these changes; no wonder drivers are!

Nigel
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