Re: [PATCH 0/8] Cpufreq, cpu hotplug, suspend/resume related fixes

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jul 11 2013 - 18:24:35 EST


On Friday, July 12, 2013 03:45:17 AM Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>
> Hi,

Hi,

> Commit a66b2e (cpufreq: Preserve sysfs files across suspend/resume) caused
> some subtle regressions in the cpufreq subsystem during suspend/resume.
> This patchset is aimed at rectifying those problems, by fixing the regression
> as well as achieving the original goal of that commit in a proper way.
>
> Patch 1 reverts the above commit, and is CC'ed to stable.
>
> Patches 2 - 5 reorganize the code and have no functional impact, and can go
> in as general cleanups as well. This reorganization builds a base that the
> rest of the patches will make use of.
>
> Patch 6 and 7 add a mechanism to perform light-weight init/tear-down of CPUs
> in the cpufreq subsystem and finally patch 8 uses it to preserve sysfs files
> across suspend/resume.
>
> All the patches apply on current mainline.
>
>
> Robert, Durgadoss, it would be great if you could try it out and see if it works
> well for your usecase. I tested it locally and cpufreq related files did retain
> their permissions across suspend/resume. Let me know if it works fine in your
> setup too.
>
> And I'd of course appreciate to hear from Dirk, Tianyu and Toralf to know
> whether their systems work fine after:
> a. applying only the first commit (this is what gets backported to stable)
> b. applying all the commits
>
> (Note: I had to use Michael's fix[1] to avoid CPU hotplug deadlock while
> testing this patchset. Though that patch also touches cpufreq subsystem, it
> doesn't affect this patchset in any way and there is absolutely no dependency
> between the two in terms of code. That fix just makes basic CPU hotplug work
> without locking up on current mainline).
>
> [1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/10/611
>
>
> Thank you very much!

Thanks Srivatsa!

I'm going to take [1/8] for 3.11 and queue up the rest for 3.12 if people don't
hate them. This way we'll have some more testing coverage before they reach
the mainline hopefully.

Thanks,
Rafael


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