07.10.2021 10:18, Andy Shevchenko пишет:

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 9:05 AM Dmitry Osipenko [off-list ref] wrote:

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Introduce power off call chain API that is inspired by the restart API.
It allows to have multiple power off handlers invoked along the chain

allows multiple

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until system is powered off. For the starter this series converts couple

the system
a couple

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NVIDIA Tegra drivers to the new API. Existing pm_power_off() method
stays around and may be removed once all users will adopt the new API.

users adopt

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There were couple attempts in the past to add power off API from

a couple

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Guenter Roeck and Thierry Reding, but they were never completed. This
is a somewhat simplified version which doesn't try to convert whole kernel
to the new API at once, but solves immediate practical problem that we

problems

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have on Nexus 7 Android tablet where device needs to chain power off

tablets where the device

Thank you for the corrections, so far there is one problem and one tablet :)

Immediate question here is how do you see the plan of spreading this.
I.o.w. can you put an explanation that you have checked, let's say

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80% current users, and they may be converted like [example

placeholder] without any special tricks?

The rough plan is:

1. Add new API.
2. Convert drivers to the new API per subsystem.
3. Expose do_kernel_restart().
4. Replace pm_power_off() with do_kernel_poweroff() per arch/, making
power off similar to the restart that uses do_kernel_restart().
5. Remove do_kernel_restart() from kernel/reboot.c

Majority of pm_power_off() users shouldn't need the chaining and
pm_power_off() doesn't conflict with the new API, so there is no need to
rush the conversion.

The single-link chain users could be converted to the new API directly,
this will remove some global variables. But at first should be better to
gain more users who actually need the chained power off since they may
have very specific requirements not covered by the current variant of
the API and will be easier to evolve API with less users.