Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jun 02 2010 - 03:23:14 EST


On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> 2010/6/2 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> >> Deferring the the timers forever without stopping the clock can cause
> >> problems. Our user space code has a lot of timeouts that will trigger
> >> an error if an app does not respond in time. Freezing everything and
> >> stopping the clock while suspended is a lot simpler than trying to
> >> stop individual timers and processes from running.
> >
> > And resume updates timekeeping to account for the slept time. So the
>
> No, for the monotonic clock it does the opposite. The hardware clock
> is read on resume and the offset is set so the monotonic clock gets
> the same value as it had when suspend was called.

Grr, yes. Misread the code. -ENOTENOUGHCOFFEE

Thanks,

tglx