[PATCH 0/7] arm64: hibernate: dust off the suspend/cleanup rework

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Thu Sep 3 05:16:44 PDT 2026


On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 12:26:11PM +0100, Bradley Morgan wrote:
> On 3 September 2026 11:53:59 BST, Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 03:03:07PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 02:51:22PM +0100, Bradley Morgan wrote:
> >> > On 2 September 2026 14:50:22 BST, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> > >On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 08:58:32PM +0000, Bradley Morgan wrote:
> >> > >> This comes out of the hibernate resume discussion where Will asked
> >if
> >> > >> the restored kernel's hyp vectors are reinstalled before we come
> >back
> >> > >> from swsusp_arch_suspend() and free the reserved pages. Rather than
> >> > >> answer with a one off fix, this series reworks resume to look like
> >a
> >> > >> resume from idle, which makes the answer fall out on its own.
> >> > >> 
> >> > >> The series leans on Mark Rutland's old work for inspiration, he had
> >the
> >> > >> same end goal in a branch from back then:
> >> > >> 
> >> > >>  
> >> >
> >>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arm64/suspend/cleanup
> >> > >
> >> > >Most of the series seems to be a rebased of those patches, just with
> >> > >paraphrased commit messages and my S-o-B lines dropped. As commented
> >on
> >> > >patch 4, I do not think that is appropriate.
> >> > 
> >> > Same question as patch 2
> >> > 
> >> > If you want your S-O-B added, ok fine, but yeah.
> >> 
> >> As on patch 2, please read the documentation before continuing futher.
> >> 
> >> > Do you think this series itself is good? 
> >> 
> >> No. At present I think it's in a worse state than it was in my branch,
> >> because portions have changed, with no rationale and no clear benefit.
> >> 
> >> Hence my ask to Catalin and Will to NOT pick this up for now.
> >
> >I wasn't going to pick them up with the incorrect authorship, but it's
> >worth noting that Bradley's patch _does_ fix one of the hibernation
> >problems and has been tested by Vladimir:
> >
> >https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260809213615.11646-1-include@grrlz.net/
> >
> >I would prefer to take your complete set of patches, but if you don't
> >want that then should I just take the above for now? Prior to this
> >series, there has been no activity for nearly two years on your branch,
> >so I'd prefer to get _something_ in, even if it only fixes some of the
> >problems.
> >
> 
> So your taking the bugfix? I'll do V2 later, you'd need to review my sleep
> patch tho. 

I'm asking Mark how he would like to proceed, so no need to send a v2 just
yet.

Will



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