Re: [PATCH] ACPI PM: Restore the 2.6.24 suspend ordering

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> Please consider pushing the appended patch for 2.6.25.
> 
> It fixed the regression described at:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10340
> 
> details in the changelog.

> 
> ---
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> Some time ago it turned out that our suspend code ordering broke
> some NVidia-based systems that hung if _PTS was executed with one of
> the PCI devices, specifically a USB controller, in a low power state.
> Then, it was noticed that the suspend code ordering was not compliant
> with ACPI 1.0, although it was compliant with ACPI 2.0 (and later),
> and it was argued that the code had to be changed for that reason
> (ref. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9528).  So we did,
> but evidently we did wrong, because it's now turning out that some
> systems have been broken by this change (refs.
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10340 ,
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217#c16).  [I said
> at that time that something like this might happend, but the majority
> of people involved thought that it was improbable due to the
> necessity to preserve the compliance of hardware with ACPI 1.0.]
> This actually is a quite serious regression from 2.6.24.
> 
> Moreover, the ACPI 1.0 ordering of suspend code introduced another
> issue that I have only noticed recently.  Namely, if the suspend of
> one of devices fails, the already suspended devices will be resumed
> without executing _WAK before, which leads to problems on some
> systems (for example, in such situations thermal management is
> broken on my HP nx6325).  Consequently, it also breaks suspend
> debugging on the affected systems.
> 
> Note also, that the requirement to execute _PTS before suspending
> devices does not really make sense, because the device in question
> may be put into a low power state at run time for a reason unrelated
> to a system-wide suspend.
> 
> For the reasons outlined above, the change of the suspend ordering
> should be reverted, which is done by the patch below.

But this will break those few nvidia-based systems, no?

this may have been a good idea in -rc1 days, but we are in -rc7
now... and the patch is slightly big.

What about something like: (hand-edited patch, sorry)



 Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
 ===================================================================
 --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
 @@ -26,21 +26,6 @@ u8 sleep_states[ACPI_S_STATE_COUNT];
  
  #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
  static u32 acpi_target_sleep_state = ACPI_STATE_S0;
 static bool acpi_sleep_finish_wake_up;
 
- /*
-  * ACPI 2.0 and later want us to execute _PTS after suspending devices, so we
-  * allow the user to request that behavior by using the 'acpi_new_pts_ordering'
-  * kernel command line option that causes the following variable to be set.
-  */
 static bool new_pts_ordering = true;
 
 -static int __init acpi_new_pts_ordering(char *str)
 +static int __init acpi_old_pts_ordering(char *str)
 {
 	new_pts_ordering = false;
 	return 1;
 }
 -__setup("acpi_old_pts_ordering", acpi_old_pts_ordering);
 +__setup("acpi_new_pts_ordering", acpi_new_pts_ordering);
  #endif
 
  static int acpi_sleep_prepare(u32 acpi_state)
 Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
 ===================================================================
 --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
 +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
 @@ -170,11 +170,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
  	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
  			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  
 -	acpi_new_pts_ordering [HW,ACPI]
 +	acpi_old_pts_ordering [HW,ACPI]
 -			Enforce the ACPI 2.0 ordering of the _PTS control
 +			Enforce the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS control
 			method wrt putting devices into low power states
 -			default: pre ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS
 +			default: ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS
 
  	acpi_no_auto_ssdt	[HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
  
  	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS

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