Re: [PATCH 4/6] PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 05:03:44AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Index: linux-pm/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> +++ linux-pm/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ struct cpuidle_state {
>  			int index);
>  
>  	int (*enter_dead) (struct cpuidle_device *dev, int index);

Do we want a comment here describing that enter_freeze() must not
re-enable interrupts _ever_?

To help people who want to enable this on their platform.

> +
> +	void (*enter_freeze) (struct cpuidle_device *dev,
> +			      struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
> +			      int index);
>  };

> +static void enter_freeze_proper(struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
> +				struct cpuidle_device *dev, int index)
> +{
> +	tick_freeze();
> +	/*
> +	 * The state used here cannot be a "coupled" one, because the "coupled"
> +	 * cpuidle mechanism enables interrupts and doing that with timekeeping
> +	 * suspended is generally unsafe.
> +	 */
> +	drv->states[index].enter_freeze(dev, drv, index);

	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());

To go along with the comment and catch fail?

> +	/*
> +	 * timekeeping_resume() that will be called by tick_unfreeze() for the
> +	 * last CPU executing it calls functions containing RCU read-side
> +	 * critical sections, so tell RCU about that.
> +	 */
> +	RCU_NONIDLE(tick_unfreeze());
> +}