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SubjectRe: [V3 PATCH 4/4] scsi:stex.c Add S3/S4 support


On 12/10/2014 05:02 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 09:38 +0800, Charles Chiou wrote:
>> From 91868d4afe10533b8a4496075109e411100217bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Charles Chiou <charles.chiou@tw.promise.com>
>> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:15:18 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] scsi:stex.c Add S3/S4 support
>>
>> Add S3/S4 support, add .suspend and .resume function in pci_driver.
>>
>> Pegasus need 30~40 seconds to boot up. We don't want to OS wait
>> in .resume function. Create a thread to handle device boot up.
>>
>
>> +static int stex_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>> +{
>> + struct st_hba *hba = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
>> + struct hba_handshake_workstruct *hswork;
>> + int sts;
>> +
>> + hba->mu_status = MU_STATE_STARTING;
>> + hswork = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hba_handshake_workstruct), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> The system is coming back from sleep. You cannot swap or page out
> as disks may still be asleep. GFP_KERNEL is automatically changed
> to GFP_NOIO. It would be nice to outright use GFP_NOIO.
>
>> + INIT_WORK(&hswork->handshake_work, resume_handshake);
>
> Memory allocations can fail.
> I suggest you allocate the memory in suspend(). There you can just
> return -ENOMEM in the error case.
>
>
Hi Oliver, sorry for the late reply.

Good point, could we move kzalloc function from suspend to probe and
return -ENOMEM when allocation fail? We can avoid to allocate memory
again and again in suspend/resume cycles.

BRS
Charles


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