From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756431AbZCRGZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:25:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754640AbZCRGZf (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:25:35 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:43828 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754758AbZCRGZf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:25:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cnrPb5CQNzHDW0FySymcVTwtfOSEHnZE5AOSGb6T4rZScixyChF/ZdbWa1ANb7WTN5 BgoIvM5IbWtmO9YCvP3VzGJaTIJFtAJxbZQuWyiio8GcF86vL3AC2o1AxWF5Es9Nz19S bl3XUQK+E7T5al+b9hzxj0VZbwy7Pdw8p7+PE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:25:32 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 146a82c0d9cf8447 Message-ID: <2a27d3730903172325w16ec329cp872ec35d100f6506@mail.gmail.com> Subject: nonboot cpu on SMP suspend From: Li Yang To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I'm curious why we need to un-plug all the nonboot cpus before suspend and start them all over again after the suspend(ACPI sleep)?  I mean if we can bring the booting cpu back to the exact state as before suspend, why can't we just do the same for non-booting cpus?  And that will be much faster. Any thought?  Thanks. - Leo