Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756245Ab3GKW11 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:27:27 -0400 Received: from e28smtp06.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.6]:34347 "EHLO e28smtp06.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754367Ab3GKW1Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:27:25 -0400 Message-ID: <51DF307B.7060307@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:53:55 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: viresh.kumar@linaro.org, toralf.foerster@gmx.de, robert.jarzmik@intel.com, durgadoss.r@intel.com, tianyu.lan@intel.com, lantianyu1986@gmail.com, dirk.brandewie@gmail.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Cpufreq, cpu hotplug, suspend/resume related fixes References: <20130711221419.547.69781.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <6515593.XAmN11qlGF@vostro.rjw.lan> In-Reply-To: <6515593.XAmN11qlGF@vostro.rjw.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13071122-9574-0000-0000-000008AD76C3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2409 Lines: 63 On 07/12/2013 04:03 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, July 12, 2013 03:45:17 AM Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> Commit a66b2e (cpufreq: Preserve sysfs files across suspend/resume) caused >> some subtle regressions in the cpufreq subsystem during suspend/resume. >> This patchset is aimed at rectifying those problems, by fixing the regression >> as well as achieving the original goal of that commit in a proper way. >> >> Patch 1 reverts the above commit, and is CC'ed to stable. >> >> Patches 2 - 5 reorganize the code and have no functional impact, and can go >> in as general cleanups as well. This reorganization builds a base that the >> rest of the patches will make use of. >> >> Patch 6 and 7 add a mechanism to perform light-weight init/tear-down of CPUs >> in the cpufreq subsystem and finally patch 8 uses it to preserve sysfs files >> across suspend/resume. >> >> All the patches apply on current mainline. >> >> >> Robert, Durgadoss, it would be great if you could try it out and see if it works >> well for your usecase. I tested it locally and cpufreq related files did retain >> their permissions across suspend/resume. Let me know if it works fine in your >> setup too. >> >> And I'd of course appreciate to hear from Dirk, Tianyu and Toralf to know >> whether their systems work fine after: >> a. applying only the first commit (this is what gets backported to stable) >> b. applying all the commits >> >> (Note: I had to use Michael's fix[1] to avoid CPU hotplug deadlock while >> testing this patchset. Though that patch also touches cpufreq subsystem, it >> doesn't affect this patchset in any way and there is absolutely no dependency >> between the two in terms of code. That fix just makes basic CPU hotplug work >> without locking up on current mainline). >> >> [1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/10/611 >> >> >> Thank you very much! > > Thanks Srivatsa! > > I'm going to take [1/8] for 3.11 and queue up the rest for 3.12 if people don't > hate them. This way we'll have some more testing coverage before they reach > the mainline hopefully. > Sounds great! Thanks a lot Rafael! Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/