Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] PM / Sleep: Implement opportunistic sleep

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu May 03 2012 - 09:23:22 EST


On Thursday, May 03, 2012, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: PM / Sleep: Implement opportunistic sleep, v2
> >
> > Introduce a mechanism by which the kernel can trigger global
> > transitions to a sleep state chosen by user space if there are no
> > active wakeup sources.
> >
> > It consists of a new sysfs attribute, /sys/power/autosleep, that
> > can be written one of the strings returned by reads from
> > /sys/power/state, an ordered workqueue and a work item carrying out
> > the "suspend" operations. If a string representing the system's
> > sleep state is written to /sys/power/autosleep, the work item
> > triggering transitions to that state is queued up and it requeues
> > itself after every execution until user space writes "off" to
> > /sys/power/autosleep.
> >
>
> This does not work. Writing something other than "off" disabled auto
> suspend for me.

My bad, sorry about that.

> ...
> > +static ssize_t autosleep_store(struct kobject *kobj,
> > + struct kobj_attribute *attr,
> > + const char *buf, size_t n)
> > +{
> > + suspend_state_t state = decode_state(buf, n);
> > + int error;
> > +
> > + if (state == PM_SUSPEND_ON
> > + && !(strncmp(buf, "off", 3) && strncmp(buf, "off\n", 4)))
> > + return -EINVAL;
>
> Did you mean:
> if (state == PM_SUSPEND_ON
> && strcmp(buf, "off") && strcmp(buf, "off\n"))
> return -EINVAL;


Yes, I did.

I'll add the following as an incremental patch on top of the series.

Thanks,
Rafael

---
kernel/power/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/kernel/power/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/power/main.c
+++ linux/kernel/power/main.c
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static ssize_t autosleep_store(struct ko
int error;

if (state == PM_SUSPEND_ON
- && !(strncmp(buf, "off", 3) && strncmp(buf, "off\n", 4)))
+ && strncmp(buf, "off", 3) && strncmp(buf, "off\n", 4))
return -EINVAL;

error = pm_autosleep_set_state(state);
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