Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH] PM: sleep: Ignore device driver suspend() callback return values

[Florian Fainelli]

On 12/5/24 09:36, Len Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 10:33 AM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ...I also think this looks a bit risky as the current behaviour
> > has really been there for a long time. Who knows what depends on this.
>
> If everything were working 100% of the time, no risk would be justified
> because no improvement is possible.
> > But we run over 1,000,000 suspend resume cycles per release in our lab,
> and this issue as a category, is the single most common failure.

But you are starting to enter the big number category here, eventually 
something is going to fail with that many iterations.

How was this 1 million iterations determined to be a good pass/fail 
criteria and just not an arbitrarily high number intended to shake off 
issues? Surely with such a big number you start getting an idea of which 
specific drivers within your test devices tend to fail to suspend?

FWIW, with the products I work with, which are mainly set-top-box 
devices, we just set a pass/fail criteria at 100k which is essentially 
assuming there will be 27 suspend/resume cycles per day for the next 10 
years, given the lifespan of the products, that seemed way overboard, 
realistically there is going to be more like 2-3 suspend/resume cycles 
per day.

> Worse, there is a huge population of drivers, and we can't possibly test
> them all into correctness.  Every release this issue crops when another
> driver hiccups in response to some device specific transient issue.
>
> The current implementation is not a viable design.

Neither is this approach because it assumes that drivers that need to 
abort the system suspend call pm_system_wakeup(), which most do not, 
they return -EBUSY or something like that. There is a total of 12 or so 
drivers calling pm_system_wakeup(), that's not the majority.

How about you flipped the logic around, introduce an option that lets 
you ignore the suspend callback return value gated by a Kconfig option?
--
Florian