[RFC 2/2] clocksource: don't suspend/resume when unused

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Alexandre Belloni wrote:

> There is no point in calling suspend/resume for unused
> clocksources.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  kernel/time/clocksource.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> index 920a4da58eb0..baea4e42ae90 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ void clocksource_suspend(void)
>  	struct clocksource *cs;
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry_reverse(cs, &clocksource_list, list)
> -		if (cs->suspend)
> +		if (cs->suspend && (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_USED))
>  			cs->suspend(cs);

This might be dangerous. If the clocksource has no enable/disable
callbacks, but suspend/resume, then you might leave it enabled across
suspend.

Thanks,

	tglx