Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755542AbaBTQ2F (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:28:05 -0500 Received: from service87.mimecast.com ([91.220.42.44]:53045 "EHLO service87.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753691AbaBTQ2D convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:28:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:27:55 +0000 From: Lorenzo Pieralisi To: Sebastian Capella Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Russ Dill , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Russell King , Len Brown , Pavel Machek , Nicolas Pitre , Santosh Shilimkar , Will Deacon , Cyril Chemparathy , Jonathan Austin , Catalin Marinas , Uwe Kleine-K?nig , Stephen Boyd Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 3/3] ARM hibernation / suspend-to-disk Message-ID: <20140220162754.GC15994@e102568-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1392774729-3235-1-git-send-email-sebastian.capella@linaro.org> <1392774729-3235-4-git-send-email-sebastian.capella@linaro.org> <20140219161254.GB19343@e102568-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20140219193315.3732.21819@capellas-linux> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140219193315.3732.21819@capellas-linux> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2014 16:27:59.0882 (UTC) FILETIME=[B82A66A0:01CF2E58] X-MC-Unique: 114022016275811601 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sebastian, On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 07:33:15PM +0000, Sebastian Capella wrote: > Quoting Lorenzo Pieralisi (2014-02-19 08:12:54) > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 01:52:09AM +0000, Sebastian Capella wrote: > > [...] > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hibernate.c b/arch/arm/kernel/hibernate.c > > > new file mode 100644 > > > index 0000000..16f406f > > > --- /dev/null > > > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hibernate.c > > > +void notrace save_processor_state(void) > > > +{ > > > + WARN_ON(num_online_cpus() != 1); > > > + flush_thread(); > > > > Can you explain to me please why we need to call flush_thread() here ? > > At this point in time syscore_suspend() was already called and CPU > > peripheral state saved through CPU PM notifiers. > > Copying Russ' response here: > > "I think the idea here is to get the CPU into a state so that later > when we resume from the resume kernel, the actual CPU state matches > the state we have in kernel. The main thing flush_thread does is clear > out any and all FP state." - Russ Dill See my reply to Russ. [...] > > > +static void notrace __swsusp_arch_restore_image(void *unused) > > > +{ > > > + struct pbe *pbe; > > > + > > > + cpu_switch_mm(idmap_pgd, &init_mm); > > > > Same here, thanks. > > At restore time, we take the save buffer data and restore it to the same > physical locations used in the previous execution. This will require having > write access to all of memory, which may not be generally granted by the > current mm. So we switch to 1-1 init_mm to restore memory. I still do not understand why switching to idmap, which is a clone of init_mm + 1:1 kernel mappings is required here. Why idmap ? And while at it, can't the idmap be overwritten _while_ copying back the resume kernel ? Is it safe to use idmap page tables while copying ? I had a look at x86 and there idmap page tables used to resume are created on the fly using safe pages, on ARM idmap is created at boot. I am grokking the code to understand what is really needed here, will get back to you asap but I would like things to be clarified in the interim. Thanks, Lorenzo -- 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/