Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] suspend: extend S2Idle ops by new notify handler

[Limonciello, Mario]

> > It looks like you want suspend-to-idle to behave like S3 and it won't.
>
> In a way, yes, we compensate for the lack of something like PM1_CNT to
> trap on for detecting that the guest is suspending.
> We could instead force the guest to use S3 but IMO it is undesirable,
> since it generally does make a difference which suspend mode is used
> in the guest, s2idle or S3, e.g some drivers check which suspend type
> is used and based on that behaves differently during suspend. One of
> the example is:
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Actually I recently was suggesting a change to add this detection to 
another driver to set a policy and Rafael pushed back.  He's actively 
removing it from other places in the kernel.

For amdgpu stuff you pointed above, are you wanting to pass through the 
PCIe GPU device to a guest and then suspend that guest? Or is this just 
illustrative?

For a dGPU I would expect it works, but I don't think passing an APU's 
GPU PCIe endpoint would functionally work (there were bugs reported on 
this I recall).

That code path you point out only has special handling for APU when 
headed to S0ix and that's because the GPU driver happens to be where the 
control point is for some common silicon functions.  If the bug I 
mentioned about PCIe passthrough of the APU GPU endpoint to the guest is 
fixed and the guest needs to do s0ix when the host doesn't we're going 
to have other breakage to worry about because of that common silicon 
functionality I mentioned.