[PATCH v7 2/2] ARM hibernation / suspend-to-disk

[Sebastian Capella]

On 16 March 2014 00:09, Ezequiel Garcia
<ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Mar 05, Sebastian Capella wrote:
> [..]
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
>> index 1f8fed9..83707702 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
>> @@ -611,6 +611,11 @@ config CPU_USE_DOMAINS
>>  config IO_36
>>       bool
>>
>> +config ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE
...
>> +     default y if CPU_ARM920T || CPU_ARM926T || CPU_SA1100 || CPU_XSCALE || CPU_XSC3 || CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7
...
> Is there any reason why CPU_FEROCEON is not listed here? FWIW, I've just built
> (but not really tested) a Kirkwood kernel with CONFIG_HIBERNATION=y.
No reason; I did not change this from the original patch I'd received.
 I didn't try to get a comprehensive list of supported hardware.  To
my understanding, the goal is to get the infrastructure in so that
people can start working on their platforms and add support for them.

> And is there any reason to put this config in arch/arm/mm/Kconfig, instead of
> in arch/arm/Kconfig, below ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE?
I don't have a reason.  Anyone else have a comment on this?
Otherwise, I'll move it.. thanks!

> I'm also puzzled about having two separate options for suspend and hibernate,
> maybe someone can explain me why a given CPU would support the former but not
> the latter?
It's part of having the generic hibernation implemented and available
but with architecture specific dependencies.  Where an architecture
may not have support for hibernation, it will prevent compilation of
the generic hibernation support.  For example, at the moment, ARM does
not support hibernation.  As a result, hibernation is not presented as
an option in menuconfig.  If you were to artificially enable it (by
hacking ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE=y, and then turning
CONFIG_HIBERNATION=y) then you'd get linker errors due to the missing
architecture hibernation functions.  (basically what is being added by
this patch for ARM).  It's like this for other architectures as well
(mips, sh, etc..)

Thanks,

Sebastian