On Tuesday 01 June 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 31 May 2010, Neil Brown wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 May 2010 23:40:29 +0200 (CEST) > >> Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> > > >> > > On Thursday 27 May 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> > > > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alan Stern wrote: > >> > > > > >> > > > > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:06:23PM +0200, ext Alan Stern wrote: > >> > > > > > >If people don't mind, here is a greatly simplified summary of > >> > > > > > >the > >> > > > > > >comments and objections I have seen so far on this thread: > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > The in-kernel suspend blocker implementation is okay, even > >> > > > > > > beneficial. > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > I disagree here. I believe expressing that as QoS is much > >> > > > > > better. Let > >> > > > > > the kernel decide which power state is better as long as I can > >> > > > > > say I > >> > > > > > need 100us IRQ latency or 100ms wakeup latency. > >> > > > > > >> > > > > Does this mean you believe "echo mem >/sys/power/state" is bad and > >> > > > > should be removed? Or "echo disk >/sys/power/state"? They pay no > >> > > > > >> > > > mem should be replaced by an idle suspend to ram mechanism > >> > > > >> > > Well, what about when I want the machine to suspend _regardless_ of > >> > > whether > >> > > or not it's idle at the moment? That actually happens quite often to > >> > > me. :-) > >> > > >> > Fair enough. Let's agree on a non ambigous terminology then: > >> > > >> > forced: > >> > > >> > suspend which you enforce via user interaction, which > >> > also implies that you risk losing wakeups depending on > >> > the hardware properties > >> > >> Reasonable definition I think. However the current implementation doesn't > >> exactly match it. > >> With the current implementation you risk losing wakeups *independent* of > >> the > >> hardware properties. > > > > Define "losing", please. > > > > Currently, we simply don't regard hardware signals occuring _during_ the > > suspend operation itself as wakeups (unless they are wakeup interrupts to be > > precise, because these _are_ taken into account by our current code). > > > > The reason is that the meaning of given event may be _different_ at run time > > and after the system has been suspended. For example, consider a power > > button > > on a PC box. If it's pressed at run time, it usually means "power off the > > system" to the kernel. After the system has been suspended, however, it > > means > > "wake up". So, you have to switch from one interpretation of the event to > > the > > other and that's not an atomic operaition (to put it lightly). > > > >> Even with ideal hardware events can be lost - by which I mean that they > >> will > >> not be seen until some other event effects a wake-up. > >> e.g. the interrupt which signals the event happens immediately before the > >> suspend is requested (or maybe at the same time as), but the process which > >> needs to handle the event doesn't get a chance to see it before the suspend > >> procedure freezes that process, and even if it did it would have no way to > >> abort the suspend. > >> > >> So I submit that the current implementation doesn't match your description > >> of > >> "forced", is therefore buggy, and that if it were fixed, that would be > >> sufficient to meet the immediate needs of android. > > > > I don't really think it may be fixed with respect to every possible kind of > > hardware. On platforms where I/O interrupts are wakeup events it should > > work right now. On other platforms it may be impossible to overcome > > hardware > > limitations. > > > > There is no reason you cannot make the rtc alarms work reliably on x86 > hardware.
They usually work, but not in 100% of cases. Generally, "x86 hardware" is a broad category, where modern ones have much more interesting capabilities than the older. > Even if you may loose key events while suspending I think it > is still valuable to have reliable alarms. I don't think anyone will argue with that. :-) Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
