On Monday, 28 May 2007 10:30, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 23:45 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sunday, 27 May 2007 22:49, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:31:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > Use a hibernation and suspend notifier to disable the firmware requesting
> > > > mechanism before a hibernation/suspend and enable it after the operation.
> > >
> > > This avoids the problem of .resume methods calling userspace while
> > > userspace is frozen and a resulting hang, but does it actually result in
> > > the drivers beginning to work again?
> >
> > Well, this was acutally invented before you've decided to remove the freezing
> > of tasks from the suspend code path (which I think is a mistake, but that's
> > only my personal opinion, so it doesn't matter very much ;-)) and I regard it
> > as a workaround.
>
> Suspend-to-ram code paths shouldn't assume userspace is unfrozen anyway.
> Doesn't [u]swsusp have a code path like Suspend2 where we can suspend to
> ram after writing the hibernation image? In that case, it will still be
> possible that we seek to enter and leave S3 with processes frozen.
That's correct.
> Apologies if anyone has already mentioned this - I'm just starting to
> play catchup.
No one has and that's a valid point, I think. :-)
Greetings,
Rafael
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