[PATCH RFC v1 3/3] ARM hibernation / suspend-to-disk

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > return from the finisher will always be interpreted as an abort rather
> > than success (because the state has to be unwound.)
> > 
> > This is the only way to get a zero return from cpu_suspend().
> 
> Yes, that's the only reason why this code is jumping to cpu_resume, since
> all it is needed is to snapshot the CPU context and by the time the
> finisher is called that's done. Wanted to say that soft reboot is not
> useful (cache flushing and resume with MMU off), but what you are saying
> is correct. We might be saving swsusp_save return value in a global
> variable and just return from the finisher, but that's horrible and
> given the amount of time it takes to snapshot the image to disk the
> cost of this soft reboot will be dwarfed by that.

I feel bad for the "global variable" trick on x86, and if you can
avoid it, please do!

								Pavel
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