On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Tomasz Figa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 20 of December 2013 15:56:38 sunil joshi wrote:
>> Hi Abhilash,
>> I saw another patch in chrome tree ..by Andrew Bresticker
>> which may be relevant here ..
>>
>> Just wondering if you missed adding this ? or this is not needed ?
>> You did not face any issue in getting core to suspend ?
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> commit 95402d816b9f1a05ce633f7ff64b4c939c142482
>> Author: Andrew Bresticker <[email protected]>
>> Date:   Mon Jul 15 13:14:36 2013 -0700
>>
>>     arm: exynos: disable all interrupts on Exynos5420 before suspend
>>
>>     Disable all interrupts from the GIC before entering suspend on
>>     Exynos5420 as is done on Exynos5250.  If interrupts are enabled, we
>>     may receive an interrupt after entering WFI but before the PMU has
>>     suspended the system, causing suspend to fail.
>>
>>     BUG=chrome-os-partner:20523
>>     TEST=Run suspend_stress_test on Pit and observe that entering suspend
>>     no longer occasionally fails with the "Failed to suspend the system"
>>     error in exynos_cpu_suspend().
>
> A question about this for Chromium and LSI guys:
>
> If you find out that there is already a pending interrupt before you enter
> the sleep mode, isn't it more reasonable to cancel the process ASAP and
> handle the event instead of entering the sleep just to leave it?
>
> I believe this should be both more efficient with respect to power usage
> and latency, because sleep-wakeup transition takes time and power.
>
> Do you have any reason to think the opposite?

If it's expected to be a rare or very rare event, it's not a given
that the added complexity of dealing with the aborted suspend that
late is worth it.


-Olof
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