[PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: omap_device: call all suspend, resume callbacks when OMAP_DEVICE_NO_IDLE_ON_SUSPEND is set

Kevin Hilman khilman at ti.com
Mon Mar 5 10:21:39 EST 2012


Paul Walmsley <paul at pwsan.com> writes:

> During system suspend, when OMAP_DEVICE_NO_IDLE_ON_SUSPEND is set on
> an omap_device, call the corresponding driver's ->suspend() and
> ->suspend_noirq() callbacks (if present).  Similarly, during resume,
> the driver's ->resume() and ->resume_noirq() callbacks must both be
> called, if present.  (The previous code only called ->suspend_noirq()
> and ->resume_noirq().)
>
> If all of these callbacks aren't called, some important driver
> suspend/resume code may not get executed.
>
> In current mainline, the bug fixed by this patch is only a problem
> under the following conditions:
>
> - the kernel is running on an OMAP4
>
> - an OMAP UART is used as a console
>
> - the kernel command line parameter 'no_console_suspend' is specified
>
> - and the system enters suspend ("echo mem > /sys/power/state").
>
> Under this combined circumstance, the system cannot be awakened via
> the serial port after commit be4b0281956c5cae4f63f31f11d07625a6988766c
> ("tty: serial: OMAP: block idle while the UART is transferring data in
> PIO mode").  This is because the OMAP UART driver's ->suspend()
> callback is never called.  The ->suspend() callback would have called
> uart_suspend_port() which in turn would call enable_irq_wake().  Since
> enable_irq_wake() isn't called for the UART's IRQ, check_wakeup_irqs()
> would mask off the UART IRQ in the GIC.
>
> On v3.3 kernels prior to the above commit, serial resume from suspend
> presumably occurred via the PRCM interrupt.  The UART was in
> smart-idle mode, so it was able to send a PRCM wakeup which in turn
> would be converted into a PRCM interrupt to the GIC, waking up the
> kernel.  But after the above commit, when the system is suspended in
> the middle of a UART transmit, the UART IP block would be in no-idle
> mode.  In no-idle mode, the UART won't generate wakeups to the PRCM
> when incoming characters are received; only GIC interrupts.  But since
> the UART driver's ->suspend() callback is never called,
> uart_suspend_port() and enable_irq_wake() is never called; so the UART
> interrupt is masked by check_wakeup_irqs() and the UART can't wake up
> the MPU.
>
> The remaining mechanism that could have awakened the system would have
> been I/O chain wakeups.  These wouldn't be active because the console
> UART's clocks are never disabled when no_console_suspend is used,
> preventing the full chip from idling.  Also, current mainline doesn't
> yet support full chip idle states for OMAP4, so I/O chain wakeups are
> not enabled.
>
> This patch is the result of a collaboration.  John Stultz
> <johnstul at us.ibm.com> and Andy Green <andy.green at linaro.org> reported
> the serial wakeup problem that led to the discovery of this problem.
> Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> narrowed the problem down to the use of
> no_console_suspend.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul at pwsan.com>
> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul at us.ibm.com>
> Cc: Andy Green <andy.green at linaro.org>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com>

Looks right.

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com>

Tony, this fix is needed for v3.3.

Kevin



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