Re: [PATCH v2] alarmtimer: fix unexpected rtc interrupt when system resume from S3

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:50 PM,  <zhuo-hao.lee@intel.com> wrote:
> From: zhuo-hao <zhuo-hao.lee@intel.com>
>

If you could, please CC me on future submissions? I need to add an
entry to MAINTAINERS for alarmtimers. :)

> Before the system go to suspend (S3), if user create a timer with clockid
> CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM/CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM and set a "large" timeout value
> to this timer. The function alarmtimer_suspend will be called to setup
> a timeout value to RTC timer to avoid the system sleep over time. However,
> if the system wakeup early than RTC timeout, the RTC timer will not be cleared.
> And this will cause the hpet_rtc_interrupt come unexpectedly until the RTC
> timeout. To fix this problem, just adding alarmtimer_resume to cancel the
> RTC timer.

So conceptually the patch makes sense, though I'm not totally sure I
understand the failure you describe.

We have some alarmtimer set for 2 hours from now.
We suspend, and the alarmtimer code sets an rtctimer to wake us up in
2 hours week.
We resume a few minutes later due to user interaction or other
wakeups, but the rtctimer is still set.
A little less then two hours later (while the system has been awake
the whole time), the RTC hardware fires and we run the rtctimer.
???? Something problematic here w/ the hpet_rtc_interrupt?
The alarmtimer's hrtimer fires as normal.


Again, your fix seems reasonable, but I also feel like when the RTC
hardware spuriously fires and we trigger the rtctimer logic, there
shouldn't be any real problems there. So I want to make sure we're not
covering up some underlying issue w/ this fix.

thanks
-john