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

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 16/01/2015 at 11:23:24 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote :
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:35:30AM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 16/01/2015 at 11:23:32 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote :
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't that already the case?
> > Right now, if you call clocksource_suspend, it doesn't matter whether
> > the clocksource has an enable or not, it will be suspended. Maybe I'm
> > mistaken but my patch doesn't seem to change that behaviour.
> 
> You change an "always suspend" problem to a "never suspend" problem
> since those clocksources which are used, but do not have an ->enable
> callback will not be marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_USED.
> 
> Look at patch 1:
> 
> -               if (!new->enable || new->enable(new) == 0) {
> +               if (!new->enable || clocksource_enable(new) == 0) {
> 
> If new->enable is NULL, clocksource_enable() won't be called, which
> means there's nothing which sets CLOCK_SOURCE_USED, which in turn
> means that ->suspend() will never be called.
> 

My mistake, I should have remove the check, this should be:
	if (clocksource_enable(new) == 0)

And I'll do the change suggested by Boris which should solve that
issue.

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