Re: [PATCH] PCI PM: Fix suspend error paths and testing facility breakage

[Jesse Barnes]

On Monday, January 26, 2009 12:43 pm Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> If one of device drivers refuses to suspend by returning error code
> from its ->suspend() callback, the devices that have already been
> suspended are resumed by executing their drivers' ->resume()
> callbacks.  Some of these callbacks expect the device's
> configuration space to be restored if the device has been put into
> D3 before they are called.  Unfortunately, this mechanism has been
> broken by recent changes moving the restoration of config spaces
> of some devices (most importantly, USB controllers and HDA Intel)
> into the resume callbacks executed with interrupts off.  Obviously,
> these callbacks are not invoked in the suspend error path and, as a
> result, the system cannot be successfully brought back into the
> working state in case of a suspend error.  The same thing happens
> in the hibernation error path right before putting the system into
> S4.
>
> Similarly, the suspend testing facility associated with the
> /sys/power/pm_test file is broken, because it uses the very same
> mechanism that is used in the suspend and hibernation error paths.
>
> Fix the breakage by making the PCI core restore the configuration
> spaces of PCI devices that haven't been restored already before
> pci_pm_resume() is called for those devices by the PM core.

Applied to my for-linus branch, thanks.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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