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

[Arve Hjønnevåg]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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);

You still use strncmp here, so anything that starts with "off" is
allowed (and the second strncmp is redundant).

-- 
Arve Hjønnevåg
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