Re: broken suspend [Was: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1]

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Hello all,
gives coretemp_cpu_callback -> coretemp_device_remove ->
platform_device_unregister, so coretemp seems to be what I have and you don't.

Yes.

For the coretemp developers: coretemp_cpu_callback() needs to be more careful about what it does. During a system sleep transition (suspend, hibernate, resume) it isn't possible to register or unregister a device. Attempts to register will fail and attempts to unregister will block until the system sleep is over -- and for this callback that means hanging.

Well I wrote the driver. Thanks for the clarification. If I recall correctly I looked how this part should be done from others drivers. Now while checking
what happened to the file, seems Rafael added something related.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8bb7844286fb8c9fce6f65d8288aeb09d03a5e0d

It's not clear what the best way is to fix this. Perhaps the CPU notification should be sent along with a special flag indicating that the CPU transition is part of a system sleep (although this seems racy). Perhaps the driver should notice when a system sleep begins, and defer all CPU-change handling until after the sleep is over.

maybe it does exist?  CPU_DOWN_PREPARE ?

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt;hb=HEAD

Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with this, calling the coretemp_device_remove from CPU_DOWN_PREPARE would help? Looking at microcode driver, seems it just hide sysfs interface from user.

Thanks,
Rudolf
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