lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2019]   [Apr]   [9]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Prevent suspend to RAM
On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 09:06:43AM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote on Mon, 8 Apr 2019 23:55:41 +0200:
>
> > On Tue 2019-02-05 12:07:28, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > > On one hand, the mv88e6xxx driver has a work queue called in loop
> > > which will attempt register accesses after MDIO bus suspension, that
> > > entirely freezes the platform during suspend.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, the DSA core is not ready yet to support suspend to
> > > RAM operation because so far there is no way to recover reliably the
> > > switch configuration.
> > >
> > > To avoid the kernel to freeze when suspending with a switch driven by
> > > the mv88e6xxx driver, we choose to prevent the driver suspension and
> > > in the same way, the whole platform.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> >
> > Could we at least do printk() so that user knows what went wrong?
> >
> > Debugging s2ram is usually not easy :-(.
>
> I suppose you will be told that suspend was refused by a driver
> (probably without stating which one though). You may send a patch to add
> a trace if you think it is important, as this change as already been
> merged.

Hi Miquel, Pavel

I don't know the s2ram code at all, but this seems like a generic
problem. The core should be reporting which driver returned an error,
not the driver itself.

Andrew

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2019-04-09 14:16    [W:2.705 / U:0.008 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site