Re: [PATCH 3.12 46/62] irq: Enable all irqs unconditionally inirq_resume

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:52:53PM +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013, 10:08:47 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:01:13AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > > 3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> > > > 
> > > >  me know.
> > > 
> > > Objections... well... I'm not sure if it meets stable criteria. In
> > > particular, I don't think it was ever demonstrated as having bad
> > > effect on the users.
> > 
> > Well, I'm guessing someone on the cc: here wanted it in stable@, so I'll
> > let them speak up as to why...
> 
> As for bad effects on users ... any suspend_noirq callback returning an error 
> and thus aborting the suspend will cause the error fixed by this, as the 
> early-irqs won't get reenabled in the suspend-rollback [due to the syscore_ops 
> doing their resume never being run].
> 
> You could for example lose keys connected thru the gpio-keys driver until the 
> next reboot.
> 
> And it seems at least Laxman and myself were affected by it.

So, to be clear, this patch fixes a problem on your machines, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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