From 55f2503c3b69328735e88031ff8d6ba291bd952b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pingfan Liu Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:51:32 +0800 Subject: PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend At present, "systemctl suspend" and "shutdown" can run in parrallel. A system can suspend after devices_shutdown(), and resume. Then the shutdown task goes on to power off. This causes many devices are not really shut off. Hence replacing reboot_mutex with system_transition_mutex (renamed from pm_mutex) to achieve the exclusion. The renaming of pm_mutex as system_transition_mutex can be better to reflect the purpose of the mutex. Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu Acked-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt index af005770e767..cd283190855a 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt @@ -204,26 +204,26 @@ VI. Are there any precautions to be taken to prevent freezing failures? Yes, there are. -First of all, grabbing the 'pm_mutex' lock to mutually exclude a piece of code +First of all, grabbing the 'system_transition_mutex' lock to mutually exclude a piece of code from system-wide sleep such as suspend/hibernation is not encouraged. If possible, that piece of code must instead hook onto the suspend/hibernation notifiers to achieve mutual exclusion. Look at the CPU-Hotplug code (kernel/cpu.c) for an example. -However, if that is not feasible, and grabbing 'pm_mutex' is deemed necessary, -it is strongly discouraged to directly call mutex_[un]lock(&pm_mutex) since +However, if that is not feasible, and grabbing 'system_transition_mutex' is deemed necessary, +it is strongly discouraged to directly call mutex_[un]lock(&system_transition_mutex) since that could lead to freezing failures, because if the suspend/hibernate code -successfully acquired the 'pm_mutex' lock, and hence that other entity failed +successfully acquired the 'system_transition_mutex' lock, and hence that other entity failed to acquire the lock, then that task would get blocked in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. As a consequence, the freezer would not be able to freeze that task, leading to freezing failure. However, the [un]lock_system_sleep() APIs are safe to use in this scenario, since they ask the freezer to skip freezing this task, since it is anyway -"frozen enough" as it is blocked on 'pm_mutex', which will be released +"frozen enough" as it is blocked on 'system_transition_mutex', which will be released only after the entire suspend/hibernation sequence is complete. So, to summarize, use [un]lock_system_sleep() instead of directly using -mutex_[un]lock(&pm_mutex). That would prevent freezing failures. +mutex_[un]lock(&system_transition_mutex). That would prevent freezing failures. V. Miscellaneous /sys/power/pm_freeze_timeout controls how long it will cost at most to freeze -- cgit v1.2.3