Thread (51 messages) 51 messages, 9 authors, 2016-12-27

Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] PM suspend/hibernate: Call notifier after freezing processes

From: NeilBrown <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-21 22:08:44
Also in: dm-devel, linux-pm, lkml

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:46:32 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki"
[off-list ref] wrote:
On Monday, July 20, 2015 09:32:26 AM Pali Rohár wrote:
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On Saturday 18 July 2015 01:27:15 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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On Thursday, July 16, 2015 09:33:02 AM Pali Rohár wrote:
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On Thursday 16 July 2015 03:02:03 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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Also, if you're adding AFTER_FREEZE, it would be good to add BEFORE_THAW too
for symmetry.
But there is no use case for BEFORE_THAW. At least it is not needed for now.
For your use case, a single function pointer would be sufficient too.
What do you mean by single function pointer? kernel/power is part of
kernel image and dm-crypt is external kernel module.
Well, if there is a function pointer in the core suspend code initially set to
NULL and exported to modules such that the dm-crypt code can set it to
something else, that should be sufficient, shouldn't it?
As long as the dm-crypt module is never unloaded.  And as long as no
other module could very possible want functionality like this. Ever.

If a module wants to be notified - the providing a notifier chain
really seems like the right thing to do...

NeilBrown

So if you're adding new PM notifier events, that's already more than *you* need.

Anyway, I guess the "post freeze" new one should be enough for now, but please
change the name to POST_FREEZE.

Also I think we don't need separate "post freeze" events for suspend and
hibernation.

Thanks,
Rafael
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