Re: [linux-pm] sleepy linux self-test

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Feb 10 2008 - 16:03:45 EST


Hi!

> > > > The changes look good to me.
> > >
> > > They feel unfinished to me though. :)
> > >
> > > Like using "jiffies" instead of a clocksource, which makes trouble
> > > since the timing covers periods with IRQs disabled. And the test
> > > mode parameter needs work.
> >
> > Well, I'd say that timing has bigger problem, right?
> >
> > It is
> >
> > set alarm
> > suspend system
> > | poweroff
> > alarm expires
> > system resumes
> >
> > ... so you are measuring resume time + sleep time, no?
>
> There's no "poweroff" step when entering STR or STANDBY!
>
> But more specifically, I avoided that issue by comparing times between
> (a) start and end of the "suspend devices" steps;
> (b) start and end of the "resume devices" steps.
>
> Example output, with the relevant lines highlighted by "*":
>
> PM: test RTC wakeup from 'mem' suspend
> PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
> PM: Preparing system for mem sleep
> Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
> Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
> PM: Entering mem sleep
> Suspending console(s)
> * PM: suspend devices took 0.000 seconds
> GPIO-A may wake for 00080000
> GPIO-C may wake for 00000008
> GPIO-D may wake for 00000020
> AT91: PM - wake mask 00000036, pm state 3
> AT91: PM - no slow clock mode yet ...
> AT91: PM - wakeup 00000002
> * PM: resume devices took 0.132 seconds
> PM: Finishing wakeup.
> Restarting tasks ... done.
>
> The underlying clocksource has resolution of 32 KiHz, while HZ=128;
> the "suspend" more typically reports 7 msec. And there should be a
> few more wakeup GPIOs, except I seem to not have enabled gpio_keys.
> That "wakeup 00000002" means the heavily-overloaded "system" IRQ
> woke the system ... the RTC is on that IRQ line.

Aha, that should work, yes. Sorry for noise.
Pavel
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