Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

[David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > > Now, if the old kernel left DMAs running, it could be overwriting
> > > the data we are copying in.
> >
> > The *thaw* needs to happen with devices quiescent.
> >
> > But that sure doesn't have anythign to do with the "snapshot()" path. In
> > fact, you'll have rebooted the machine in between.
>
> Only the fact that we are currently using same device call during
> snapshot() and during restore(). We obviously could do _5_ device
> calls
>
> (suspend/resume/freeze/quiesce_disable_dma/thaw)
>
> ...but that looks like too many calls to me.
>
> > So what does that have to do with "snapshotting"?
>
> I'm not comfortable with memory I'm copying changing under my hands
> because of some DMA. It just looks like asking for trouble. I _think_
> we can get away with DMA running during snapshot, because driver may
> not assume anything about the DMA result before it got completion
> interrupt, but...

the key is that with STR you don't need to copy the memory (it's staying where 
it is)

for STD you need to copy the memory, and there you halt DMA becouse you need to 
make an atomic snapshot.

David Lang
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