Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "Li, Fei" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] suspend: enable freeze timeout configuration through sysctl | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:23:11 +0000 |
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Hello Andrew, Thanks for your feedback. Your suggestion are all accepted, and will be updated in V2 as below: 1> The newly added attribute will be /sys/power/pm_freeze_timeout; 2> Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt will be updated to record such attribute; 3> Unit of millisecond will be used for the attribute.
Best Regards, Li Fei
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:37 AM To: Li, Fei Cc: rjw@sisk.pl; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-pm@vger.kernel.org; Liu, Chuansheng Subject: Re: [PATCH] suspend: enable freeze timeout configuration through sysctl
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:58:20 +0800 fli24 <fei.li@intel.com> wrote:
> At present, the timeout value for freezing tasks is fixed as 20s, > which is too long for handheld device usage, especially for mobile > phone. > > In order to improve user experience, we enable freeze timeout > configuration through sysctl, so that we can tune the value easily > for concrete usage, such as smaller value for handheld device such > as mobile phone. > > ... >
The patch looks nice - it does everything right in places where things are frequently done wrongly. Except..
It forgot to document the sysctl. Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt, I guess.
Is /proc/sys/kernel the most appropriate place for this? Perhaps a PM-specific place would be better. Maybe not.
> --- a/include/linux/freezer.h > +++ b/include/linux/freezer.h > @@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ extern bool pm_freezing; /* PM freezing in effect */ > extern bool pm_nosig_freezing; /* PM nosig freezing in effect */ > > /* > + * Timeout for stopping processes > + */ > +extern unsigned int sysctl_freeze_process_timeout_secs;
I suggest the use of milliseconds here. Someone might want a half-second timeout and it's pretty pointless to design the interface in a way which rules that out.
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