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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PM: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous resume after abort
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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 02, 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Colin Cross wrote:
>>
>> > Only wait on a parent device during resume if the parent device is
>> > suspended.
>> >
>> > Consider three drivers, A, B, and C.  The parent of A is C, and C
>> > has async_suspend set.  On boot, C->power.completion is initialized
>> > to 0.
>> >
>> > During the first suspend:
>> > suspend_devices_and_enter(...)
>> >  dpm_resume(...)
>> >   device_suspend(A)
>> >   device_suspend(B) returns error, aborts suspend
>> >  dpm_resume_end(...)
>> >    dpm_resume(...)
>> >     device_resume(A)
>> >      dpm_wait(A->parent == C)
>> >       wait_for_completion(C->power.completion)
>> >
>> > The wait_for_completion will never complete, because
>> > complete_all(C->power.completion) will only be called from
>> > device_suspend(C) or device_resume(C), neither of which is called
>> > if suspend is aborted before C.
>>
>> This would work okay if C->power.completion had been initialized to the
>> completed state during boot, right?
>>
>> > After a successful suspend->resume cycle, where B doesn't abort
>> > suspend, C->power.completion is left in the completed state by the
>> > call to device_resume(C), and the same call path will work if B
>> > aborts suspend.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/base/power/main.c |    3 ++-
>> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/base/power/main.c b/drivers/base/power/main.c
>> > index cb784a0..e159910 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/base/power/main.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/base/power/main.c
>> > @@ -526,7 +526,8 @@ static int device_resume(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state, bool async)
>> >     TRACE_DEVICE(dev);
>> >     TRACE_RESUME(0);
>> >
>> > -   dpm_wait(dev->parent, async);
>> > +   if (dev->parent && dev->parent->power.status >= DPM_OFF)
>> > +           dpm_wait(dev->parent, async);
>> >     device_lock(dev);
>> >
>> >     dev->power.status = DPM_RESUMING;
>>
>> I think it would be better to change device_pm_init() and add a
>> complete_all().
>
> I agree.
That would work, and was my first solution, but it increases the
reliance on the completion variable being left completed between state
transitions, which is undocumented and unnecessary. It seems more
straightforward to me to only wait on the parent if the parent is
suspended.

> Who's writing the patch?
I'll write it if you still don't like this one.


> Rafael
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