Re: Linux 4.15-rc2: Regression in resume from ACPI S3

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 7:19:17 PM CET Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Definitely. That was fragile forever but puzzles me is that I can't figure
> > > out what now causes that spurious interrupt to surface out of the blue.
> > 
> > Perhaps just timing?
> 
> That's what I'm trying to figure out right now, because that is the only
> sensible explanation left. The whole machinery of suspend is exactly the
> same with and without the vector changes. I instrumented all functions
> involved and the picture is the same. I even do not see any fundamental
> timing differences where one would say: That's it.
> 
> What puzzles me even more is that in the range of commits I'm fiddling with
> there is no other change than the vector management stuff and the point
> where it breaks makes no sense at all. The point Maarten bisected it to
> works nicely here, so that might just point to a very subtle timing issue.
> 
> > How hard would it be to change the ordering to just redirect irqs first?
> 
> The whole interrupt redirection happens when the non boot CPUs are brought
> down, which is the very last step before the actual suspend happens.
> 
> We could probably do that earlier, but that's something Rafael needs to
> answer ultimately.

Well, that's both flattering and concerning. ;-)

Anyway, yes, we can do that earlier AFAICS.  Action handlers are not going to
run after we've called suspend_device_irqs() which happens before the final
stage of PCI devices suspend (suspend_noirq) and it doesn't matter which CPU
gets the interrupt from that point on (it is either wakeup or unwanted then).

Thanks,
Rafael