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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Make PM core handle device registrations concurrent with suspend/hibernation
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:30:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803062330.28639.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0803061656180.19564-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Thursday, 6 of March 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > > > Well, can it happen in practice? If it can, then what way can it happen?
> > >
> > > Yes, it can happen in practice when a new module is loaded. In some
> > > ways, modules' init routines are like probe methods.
> >
> > Hmm, I'm not sure if it really is possible to load a module when all devices
> > have been suspended. Never mind, though.
>
> You can load the module before devices are suspended, and then its init
> routine can run while the suspend is starting.
Yeah.
> > > To be safe, I think we should make system sleep mutually exclusive with
> > > module loading.
> >
> > Okay, is the (yet another) version of the patch below fine by you?
>
> Yes, it's fine. Mutual exclusion with module loading can be added
> later. (Ironically, it may require putting pm_sleep_rwsem back!)
I'm going to send this patch and the "include dpm_sysfs_add() into
device_pm_add()" patch for -mm/linux-next testing, if you don't mind.
I'm working on a new version of the "PM: Separate suspend and hibernation
callbacks" patch, on top of the two.
Thanks,
Rafael
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 23:10 Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-04 16:01 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-04 21:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-05 16:03 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-05 16:16 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-03-05 1:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-05 16:27 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-05 21:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-05 22:00 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-05 23:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-06 15:26 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-06 16:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-06 17:40 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-06 20:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-06 20:28 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-06 21:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-06 21:58 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-06 22:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
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