Re: [RFC v6][PATCH 3/4] intel_txt: Intel(R) TXT Sx shutdown support

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jul 02 2009 - 17:30:16 EST


On Tue 2009-06-30 19:31:07, Joseph Cihula wrote:
> Support for graceful handling of sleep states (S3/S4/S5) after an Intel(R) TXT launch.
>
> Without this patch, attempting to place the system in one of the ACPI sleep
> states (S3/S4/S5) will cause the TXT hardware to treat this as an attack and
> will cause a system reset, with memory locked. Not only may the subsequent
> memory scrub take some time, but the platform will be unable to enter the
> requested power state.

I believe I asked for Documentation how s3 works with txt before. As a
suspend maintainer, I believe I deserve to know. Now you are
resubmitting the patch without ccing me and without that explanation.

> Signed-off-by: Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shane Wang <shane.wang@xxxxxxxxx>

NAK.
Pavel

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