[RFC PATCH 2/2] ARM: CSR: add PM sleep entry for SiRFprimaII

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:34:35AM +0800, Barry Song wrote:
> 2011/8/15 Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com>:
> > 2011/8/15 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:
> >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 03:43:13PM +0800, Barry Song wrote:
> >>> Sorry, my fault. i simply picked these lines which have been verified
> >>> to be working in local old 2.6.38.8 kernel and really didn't think and
> >>> refine more carefully.
> >>> in deep sleep mode, SiRFprimaII will powerdown CPU core.
> >>
> >> ... just like everyone else.
> >>
> >>> due to this,
> >>> i just ignored to delete the codes saving registers of all kinds of
> >>> CPU modes. but it is not the real situation in kernel. For example,
> >>> IRQ mode used the stack of corrupted thread, and kernel was not in
> >>> interrupt while going to pm_ops->enter(), then it is unnecessary to
> >>> enter IRQ and save sp of IRQ:
> >>
> >> No.  There is _no_ need to save and restore these registers.  They
> >> can simply be re-setup.  The generic cpu_suspend stuff already
> >> takes care of that.
> >
> > i did have saied it is not necessary to save and restore if you read
> > my reply carefully :-)
> 
> just as you said, after deleting all codes to save/restore regsiters:
...
> and call cpu_init() to re-setup while resuming, things go well.

Good - so can we have a patch based on the generic cpu suspend support
in the kernel for this SoC please?

Thanks.