Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

[Arve Hjønnevåg]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Freitag 20 Februar 2009 11:46:55 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
>> On Thursday 19 February 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>> > Am Donnerstag 19 Februar 2009 23:21:46 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
>> > > > That's the whole point behind userspace wakelocks!  They provide a
>> > > > mechanism for userspace to tell the kernel when (as far as userspace
>> >
>> > is
>> >
>> > > > concerned) it is or is not okay to auto-sleep.
>> > >
>> > > Still, one can go further and observe that the user space can in fact
>> > > start automatic suspend by itself whenever it knows it's appropriate
>> > > ...
>> >
>> > User space initiating this is a race condition.
>>
>> Do you mean a race with the other user space processes or with the kernel?
>
> With the set of runnable processes.There's always a window between
> evaluating the current set of runnable tasks and telling the kernel to sleep.
> IMO the most elegant solution would be a task attribute that would signal
> the kernel that a task should not count as keeping the system busy even
> if it is runnable and trigger the sleep in kernel space.

It is not always safe to enter suspend when no tasks are runnable. For
instance, a key event could be on a user space queue, but the code
that reads from that queue has been paged out.

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Arve Hjønnevåg
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