From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dtor@google.com, rajatxjain@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / s2idle: Clear the events_check_enabled flag
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 12:13:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171106111326.GD24863@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171031214424.84783-1-rajatja@google.com>
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On Tue 2017-10-31 14:44:24, Rajat Jain wrote:
> Problem: This flag does not get cleared currently in the suspend or
> resume path in the following cases:
>
> * In case some driver's suspend routine returns an error.
> * Successful s2idle case
> * etc?
>
> Why is this a problem: What happens is that the next suspend attempt
> could fail even though the user did not enable the flag by writing to
> /sys/power/wakeup_count. This is 1 use case how the issue can be seen
> (but similar use case with driver suspend failure can be thought of):
>
> 1. Read /sys/power/wakeup_count
> 2. echo count > /sys/power/wakeup_count
> 3. echo freeze > /sys/power/wakeup_count
> 4. Let the system suspend, and wakeup the system using some wake source
> that calls pm_wakeup_event() e.g. power button or something.
> 5. Note that the combined wakeup count would be incremented due
> to the pm_wakeup_event() in the resume path.
> 6. After resuming the events_check_enabled flag is still set.
>
> At this point if the user attempts to freeze again (without writing to
> /sys/power/wakeup_count), the suspend would fail even though there has
> been no wake event since the past resume.
>
> What this patch does:
>
> It moves the clearing of the flag to just before a resume is completed,
> so that it is always cleared for the corner cases mentioned above.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-06 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-31 21:44 [PATCH] PM / s2idle: Clear the events_check_enabled flag Rajat Jain
2017-11-06 11:13 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-05-08 23:01 [PATCH] pci/aspm: Remove CONFIG_PCIEASPM_DEBUG Rajat Jain
2018-05-10 23:34 ` [PATCH] PM / s2idle: Clear the events_check_enabled flag Rajat Jain
2018-05-10 23:36 ` Rajat Jain
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