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Merge tag 'pm-fixes-for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Power management fixes for 3.3

Two fixes for regressions introduced during the merge window, one fix for
a long-standing obscure issue in the computation of hibernate image size
and two small PM documentation fixes.

* tag 'pm-fixes-for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM / Sleep: Fix read_unlock_usermodehelper() call.
  PM / Hibernate: Rewrite unlock_system_sleep() to fix s2disk regression
  PM / Hibernate: Correct additional pages number calculation
  PM / Documentation: Fix minor issue in freezing_of_tasks.txt
  PM / Documentation: Fix spelling mistake in basic-pm-debugging.txt
Linus Torvalds 13 years ago
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+ 1 - 1
Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ test at least a couple of times in a row for confidence.  [This is necessary,
 because some problems only show up on a second attempt at suspending and
 resuming the system.]  Moreover, hibernating in the "reboot" and "shutdown"
 modes causes the PM core to skip some platform-related callbacks which on ACPI
-systems might be necessary to make hibernation work.  Thus, if you machine fails
+systems might be necessary to make hibernation work.  Thus, if your machine fails
 to hibernate or resume in the "reboot" mode, you should try the "platform" mode:
 
 # echo platform > /sys/power/disk

+ 4 - 4
Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt

@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ So in practice, the 'at all' may become a 'why freeze kernel threads?' and
 freezing user threads I don't find really objectionable."
 
 Still, there are kernel threads that may want to be freezable.  For example, if
-a kernel that belongs to a device driver accesses the device directly, it in
-principle needs to know when the device is suspended, so that it doesn't try to
-access it at that time.  However, if the kernel thread is freezable, it will be
-frozen before the driver's .suspend() callback is executed and it will be
+a kernel thread that belongs to a device driver accesses the device directly, it
+in principle needs to know when the device is suspended, so that it doesn't try
+to access it at that time.  However, if the kernel thread is freezable, it will
+be frozen before the driver's .suspend() callback is executed and it will be
 thawed after the driver's .resume() callback has run, so it won't be accessing
 the device while it's suspended.
 

+ 1 - 2
drivers/base/firmware_class.c

@@ -525,8 +525,7 @@ static int _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p,
 	if (!firmware) {
 		dev_err(device, "%s: kmalloc(struct firmware) failed\n",
 			__func__);
-		retval = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
 	if (fw_get_builtin_firmware(firmware, name)) {

+ 17 - 2
include/linux/suspend.h

@@ -357,14 +357,29 @@ extern bool pm_save_wakeup_count(unsigned int count);
 
 static inline void lock_system_sleep(void)
 {
-	freezer_do_not_count();
+	current->flags |= PF_FREEZER_SKIP;
 	mutex_lock(&pm_mutex);
 }
 
 static inline void unlock_system_sleep(void)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Don't use freezer_count() because we don't want the call to
+	 * try_to_freeze() here.
+	 *
+	 * Reason:
+	 * Fundamentally, we just don't need it, because freezing condition
+	 * doesn't come into effect until we release the pm_mutex lock,
+	 * since the freezer always works with pm_mutex held.
+	 *
+	 * More importantly, in the case of hibernation,
+	 * unlock_system_sleep() gets called in snapshot_read() and
+	 * snapshot_write() when the freezing condition is still in effect.
+	 * Which means, if we use try_to_freeze() here, it would make them
+	 * enter the refrigerator, thus causing hibernation to lockup.
+	 */
+	current->flags &= ~PF_FREEZER_SKIP;
 	mutex_unlock(&pm_mutex);
-	freezer_count();
 }
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP */

+ 2 - 1
kernel/power/snapshot.c

@@ -812,7 +812,8 @@ unsigned int snapshot_additional_pages(struct zone *zone)
 	unsigned int res;
 
 	res = DIV_ROUND_UP(zone->spanned_pages, BM_BITS_PER_BLOCK);
-	res += DIV_ROUND_UP(res * sizeof(struct bm_block), PAGE_SIZE);
+	res += DIV_ROUND_UP(res * sizeof(struct bm_block),
+			    LINKED_PAGE_DATA_SIZE);
 	return 2 * res;
 }