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<title>PM / Runtime: Automatically retry failed autosuspends</title>
<updated>2011-11-04T21:28:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-03T22:39:18+00:00</published>
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Originally, the runtime PM core would send an idle notification
whenever a suspend attempt failed.  The idle callback routine could
then schedule a delayed suspend for some time later.

However this behavior was changed by commit
f71648d73c1650b8b4aceb3856bebbde6daa3b86 (PM / Runtime: Remove idle
notification after failing suspend).  No notifications were sent, and
there was no clear mechanism to retry failed suspends.

This caused problems for the usbhid driver, because it fails
autosuspend attempts as long as a key is being held down.  Therefore
this patch (as1492) adds a mechanism for retrying failed
autosuspends.  If the callback routine updates the last_busy field so
that the next autosuspend expiration time is in the future, the
autosuspend will automatically be rescheduled.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg &lt;rydberg@euromail.se&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Originally, the runtime PM core would send an idle notification
whenever a suspend attempt failed.  The idle callback routine could
then schedule a delayed suspend for some time later.

However this behavior was changed by commit
f71648d73c1650b8b4aceb3856bebbde6daa3b86 (PM / Runtime: Remove idle
notification after failing suspend).  No notifications were sent, and
there was no clear mechanism to retry failed suspends.

This caused problems for the usbhid driver, because it fails
autosuspend attempts as long as a key is being held down.  Therefore
this patch (as1492) adds a mechanism for retrying failed
autosuspends.  If the callback routine updates the last_busy field so
that the next autosuspend expiration time is in the future, the
autosuspend will automatically be rescheduled.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg &lt;rydberg@euromail.se&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM / Sleep: Update freezer documentation</title>
<updated>2011-11-04T21:28:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-02T23:59:52+00:00</published>
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This patch:
 * Substitutes some obsolete references to kernel/power/process.c by
   kernel/freezer.c.
 * Mentions kernel/freezer.c as being part of the "freezer" code along
   with the rest of the files.
 * Fixes a trivial typo.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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This patch:
 * Substitutes some obsolete references to kernel/power/process.c by
   kernel/freezer.c.
 * Mentions kernel/freezer.c as being part of the "freezer" code along
   with the rest of the files.
 * Fixes a trivial typo.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/regulator</title>
<updated>2011-11-01T22:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-01T22:06:20+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/regulator: (22 commits)
  regulator: Constify constraints name
  regulator: Fix possible nullpointer dereference in regulator_enable()
  regulator: gpio-regulator add dependency on GENERIC_GPIO
  regulator: Add module.h include to gpio-regulator
  regulator: Add driver for gpio-controlled regulators
  regulator: remove duplicate REG_CTRL2 defines in tps65023
  regulator: Clarify documentation for regulator-regulator supplies
  regulator: Fix some bitrot in the machine driver documentation
  regulator: tps65023: Added support for the similiar TPS65020 chip
  regulator: tps65023: Setting correct core regulator for tps65021
  regulator: tps65023: Set missing bit for update core-voltage
  regulator: tps65023: Fixes i2c configuration issues
  regulator: Add debugfs file showing the supply map table
  regulator: tps6586x: add SMx slew rate setting
  regulator: tps65023: Fixes i2c configuration issues
  regulator: tps6507x: Remove num_voltages array
  regulator: max8952: removed unused mutex.
  regulator: fix regulator/consumer.h kernel-doc warning
  regulator: Ensure enough enable time for max8649
  regulator: 88pm8607: Fix off-by-one value range checking in the case of no id is matched
  ...
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* 'for-linus' of git://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/regulator: (22 commits)
  regulator: Constify constraints name
  regulator: Fix possible nullpointer dereference in regulator_enable()
  regulator: gpio-regulator add dependency on GENERIC_GPIO
  regulator: Add module.h include to gpio-regulator
  regulator: Add driver for gpio-controlled regulators
  regulator: remove duplicate REG_CTRL2 defines in tps65023
  regulator: Clarify documentation for regulator-regulator supplies
  regulator: Fix some bitrot in the machine driver documentation
  regulator: tps65023: Added support for the similiar TPS65020 chip
  regulator: tps65023: Setting correct core regulator for tps65021
  regulator: tps65023: Set missing bit for update core-voltage
  regulator: tps65023: Fixes i2c configuration issues
  regulator: Add debugfs file showing the supply map table
  regulator: tps6586x: add SMx slew rate setting
  regulator: tps65023: Fixes i2c configuration issues
  regulator: tps6507x: Remove num_voltages array
  regulator: max8952: removed unused mutex.
  regulator: fix regulator/consumer.h kernel-doc warning
  regulator: Ensure enough enable time for max8649
  regulator: 88pm8607: Fix off-by-one value range checking in the case of no id is matched
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2011-10-25T13:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-25T13:18:39+00:00</published>
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* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
  PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
  PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
  ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
  PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
  PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
  PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
  PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
  MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
  PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
  PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
  PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
  PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
  PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
  PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
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* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
  PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
  PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
  ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
  PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
  PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
  PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
  PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
  MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
  PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
  PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
  PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
  PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
  PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
  PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
  ...
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<entry>
<title>PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug</title>
<updated>2011-10-21T22:22:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-19T21:59:05+00:00</published>
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Update the documentation about the interaction between the suspend (S3) call
path and the CPU hotplug infrastructure.
This patch focusses only on the activities of the freezer, cpu hotplug and
the notifications involved. It outlines how regular CPU hotplug differs from
the way it is invoked during suspend and also tries to explain the locking
involved. In addition to that, it discusses the issue of microcode update
during CPU hotplug operations.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Update the documentation about the interaction between the suspend (S3) call
path and the CPU hotplug infrastructure.
This patch focusses only on the activities of the freezer, cpu hotplug and
the notifications involved. It outlines how regular CPU hotplug differs from
the way it is invoked during suspend and also tries to explain the locking
involved. In addition to that, it discusses the issue of microcode update
during CPU hotplug operations.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:28:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-26T18:32:27+00:00</published>
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There is a problem with the current ordering of hibernate code which
leads to deadlocks in some filesystems' memory shrinkers.  Namely,
some filesystems use freezable kernel threads that are inactive when
the hibernate memory preallocation is carried out.  Those same
filesystems use memory shrinkers that may be triggered by the
hibernate memory preallocation.  If those memory shrinkers wait for
the frozen kernel threads, the hibernate process deadlocks (this
happens with XFS, for one example).

Apparently, it is not technically viable to redesign the filesystems
in question to avoid the situation described above, so the only
possible solution of this issue is to defer the freezing of kernel
threads until the hibernate memory preallocation is done, which is
implemented by this change.

Unfortunately, this requires the memory preallocation to be done
before the "prepare" stage of device freeze, so after this change the
only way drivers can allocate additional memory for their freeze
routines in a clean way is to use PM notifiers.

Reported-by: Christoph &lt;cr2005@u-club.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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There is a problem with the current ordering of hibernate code which
leads to deadlocks in some filesystems' memory shrinkers.  Namely,
some filesystems use freezable kernel threads that are inactive when
the hibernate memory preallocation is carried out.  Those same
filesystems use memory shrinkers that may be triggered by the
hibernate memory preallocation.  If those memory shrinkers wait for
the frozen kernel threads, the hibernate process deadlocks (this
happens with XFS, for one example).

Apparently, it is not technically viable to redesign the filesystems
in question to avoid the situation described above, so the only
possible solution of this issue is to defer the freezing of kernel
threads until the hibernate memory preallocation is done, which is
implemented by this change.

Unfortunately, this requires the memory preallocation to be done
before the "prepare" stage of device freeze, so after this change the
only way drivers can allocate additional memory for their freeze
routines in a clean way is to use PM notifiers.

Reported-by: Christoph &lt;cr2005@u-club.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:28:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-26T15:38:50+00:00</published>
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This patch (as1485) documents a change to the kernel's default wakeup
policy.  Devices that forward wakeup requests between buses should be
enabled for wakeup by default.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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This patch (as1485) documents a change to the kernel's default wakeup
policy.  Devices that forward wakeup requests between buses should be
enabled for wakeup by default.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>PM / Suspend: Add statistics debugfs file for suspend to RAM</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:27:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>ShuoX Liu</name>
<email>shuox.liu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-10T21:01:26+00:00</published>
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Record S3 failure time about each reason and the latest two failed
devices' names in S3 progress.
We can check it through 'suspend_stats' entry in debugfs.

The motivation of the patch:

We are enabling power features on Medfield. Comparing with PC/notebook,
a mobile enters/exits suspend-2-ram (we call it s3 on Medfield) far
more frequently. If it can't enter suspend-2-ram in time, the power
might be used up soon.

We often find sometimes, a device suspend fails. Then, system retries
s3 over and over again. As display is off, testers and developers
don't know what happens.

Some testers and developers complain they don't know if system
tries suspend-2-ram, and what device fails to suspend. They need
such info for a quick check. The patch adds suspend_stats under
debugfs for users to check suspend to RAM statistics quickly.

If not using this patch, we have other methods to get info about
what device fails. One is to turn on  CONFIG_PM_DEBUG, but users
would get too much info and testers need recompile the system.

In addition, dynamic debug is another good tool to dump debug info.
But it still doesn't match our utilization scenario closely.
1) user need write a user space parser to process the syslog output;
2) Our testing scenario is we leave the mobile for at least hours.
   Then, check its status. No serial console available during the
   testing. One is because console would be suspended, and the other
   is serial console connecting with spi or HSU devices would consume
   power. These devices are powered off at suspend-2-ram.

Signed-off-by: ShuoX Liu &lt;shuox.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Record S3 failure time about each reason and the latest two failed
devices' names in S3 progress.
We can check it through 'suspend_stats' entry in debugfs.

The motivation of the patch:

We are enabling power features on Medfield. Comparing with PC/notebook,
a mobile enters/exits suspend-2-ram (we call it s3 on Medfield) far
more frequently. If it can't enter suspend-2-ram in time, the power
might be used up soon.

We often find sometimes, a device suspend fails. Then, system retries
s3 over and over again. As display is off, testers and developers
don't know what happens.

Some testers and developers complain they don't know if system
tries suspend-2-ram, and what device fails to suspend. They need
such info for a quick check. The patch adds suspend_stats under
debugfs for users to check suspend to RAM statistics quickly.

If not using this patch, we have other methods to get info about
what device fails. One is to turn on  CONFIG_PM_DEBUG, but users
would get too much info and testers need recompile the system.

In addition, dynamic debug is another good tool to dump debug info.
But it still doesn't match our utilization scenario closely.
1) user need write a user space parser to process the syslog output;
2) Our testing scenario is we leave the mobile for at least hours.
   Then, check its status. No serial console available during the
   testing. One is because console would be suspended, and the other
   is serial console connecting with spi or HSU devices would consume
   power. These devices are powered off at suspend-2-ram.

Signed-off-by: ShuoX Liu &lt;shuox.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'pm-runtime' into pm-for-linus</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:26:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-16T21:26:49+00:00</published>
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* pm-runtime:
  PM / Runtime: Handle .runtime_suspend() failure correctly
  PM / Runtime: Fix kerneldoc comment for rpm_suspend()
  PM / Runtime: Update document about callbacks
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* pm-runtime:
  PM / Runtime: Handle .runtime_suspend() failure correctly
  PM / Runtime: Fix kerneldoc comment for rpm_suspend()
  PM / Runtime: Update document about callbacks
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<entry>
<title>PM / Runtime: Update document about callbacks</title>
<updated>2011-10-10T21:37:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-09T03:40:25+00:00</published>
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Support for device power domains has been introduced in
commit 9659cc0678b954f187290c6e8b247a673c5d37e1 (PM: Make
system-wide PM and runtime PM treat subsystems consistently),
also power domain callbacks will take precedence over subsystem ones
from commit 4d27e9dcff00a6425d779b065ec8892e4f391661(PM: Make
power domain callbacks take precedence over subsystem ones).

So update part of "Device Runtime PM Callbacks" in
Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Support for device power domains has been introduced in
commit 9659cc0678b954f187290c6e8b247a673c5d37e1 (PM: Make
system-wide PM and runtime PM treat subsystems consistently),
also power domain callbacks will take precedence over subsystem ones
from commit 4d27e9dcff00a6425d779b065ec8892e4f391661(PM: Make
power domain callbacks take precedence over subsystem ones).

So update part of "Device Runtime PM Callbacks" in
Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
</pre>
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