Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] PM: Fixes warning on suspend errors

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Oct 27 2009 - 09:38:33 EST


On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Dasgupta, Romit wrote:

> Hi,
> I get the following errors when I choose devices in /sys/power/pm_test. It also shows that if 'dpm_suspend_start' fails somewhere down the line then the kernel does not reset the 'transition_started' variable and we can get warning similar to below. IMHO 'dpm_resume_noirq' is not the right place for setting this variable. Please see the patch below which fixes the issue.

> Fixes the location where we decide that our power transition is complete.
> Signed-off-by: Romit Dasgupta <romit@xxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/main.c b/drivers/base/power/main.c
> index e0dc407..6b9e991 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/main.c
> @@ -365,7 +365,6 @@ void dpm_resume_noirq(pm_message_t state)
> struct device *dev;
>
> mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx);
> - transition_started = false;
> list_for_each_entry(dev, &dpm_list, power.entry)
> if (dev->power.status > DPM_OFF) {
> int error;
> @@ -529,6 +528,7 @@ static void dpm_complete(pm_message_t state)
> put_device(dev);
> }
> list_splice(&list, &dpm_list);
> + transition_started = false;
> mutex_unlock(&dpm_list_mtx);
> }

The second hunk is okay, but the first hunk isn't. We want to set
transition_started to false as soon as devices start resuming, because
once a resume has begun it's okay to add new devices.

Alan Stern

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