Re: [PATCH 2/8] PM: suspend_block: Add driver to access suspend blockers from user-space

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 15:46 -0700, Arve HjÃnnevÃg wrote:
> > +To create a suspend blocker from user space, open the suspend_blocker
> > special
> > +device file:
> > +
> > +    fd = open("/dev/suspend_blocker", O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
> > +
> > +then optionally call:
> > +
> > +    ioctl(fd, SUSPEND_BLOCKER_IOCTL_SET_NAME(strlen(name)), name);
> > +
> > +To activate the suspend blocker call:
> > +
> > +    ioctl(fd, SUSPEND_BLOCKER_IOCTL_BLOCK);
> > +
> > +To deactivate it call:
> > +
> > +    ioctl(fd, SUSPEND_BLOCKER_IOCTL_UNBLOCK);
> > +
> > +To destroy the suspend blocker, close the device:
> > +
> > +    close(fd);
> 
> Urgh, please let the open() be BLOCK, the close() be UNBLOCK, and keep
> the SET_NAME thing if you really care.

SET_NAME wouldn't serve any purpose in that case.

This whole thing is related to the statistics part, which Arve says is
essential to him.  He wants to collect statistics for each suspend blocker
activated and deactivated so that he can tell who's causing problems by
blocking suspend too often.  The name also is a part of this.

In fact, without the statistics part the whole thing might be implemented
as a single reference counter such that suspend would happen when it went down
to zero.

Thanks,
Rafael
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