Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] PSCI: Fix non-PMIC wake-up if SYSTEM_SUSPEND cuts power

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>]

On 22/02/17 14:50, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:

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>>
>> OK, I thought I had told this before. What do you mean by PSCI system
>> suspend can't wakeup from the configured wakeup source. You just said
>> above that you can wake up from the switch.
>>
>> Just enabling the wakeup sources in Linux doesn't mean you can enter
>> system suspend anytime. You must enter only the state from which you can
>> resume. And in your case if you can't wakeup from WLAN or wakeup source
>> you have configured then simply don't enter system suspend.
> 
> Well, not quite.
> 
> The sysfs wakeup setting for devices only means whether or not to
> enable the generation of wakeup signals for them while suspending.  It
> allows to *prevent* devices from waking up the system, but it doesn't
> guarantee that they will actually wake up if enabled.
> 
> Now, the platform doesn't decide on the sleep state it will go to on
> the basis of what devices have been enabled to wake up the system.
> The states ("shallow", "deep") have to be defined upfront, including
> what devices can wake up from the "shallow" and what devices can wake
> up from the "deep" states (these lists need not be the same).  [As I
> said before, the assumption is that all of them will be able to wake
> up the system from suspend-to-idle.]
> 
> So, if user space triggers a transition to the "shallow" state, say,
> it will be possible to wake up the system from it by devices that (a)
> can wake it up from the "shallow" state as defined for the given
> platform and (b) have been enabled to wake up the system via sysfs.
> 
> Conversely, if you have a system power state such that only a subset
> of devices can wake up from it, it needs to be defined as either
> "shallow" or "deep" and the list of possible wakeup sources is part of
> that definition.

Completely agreed.

And yes the current assumption is that the set of wake-up source in DT
applies to the suspend-to-idle case and may/may not from the deeper
s2ram state.

Sorry if I conveyed something else in my emails. I was mostly referring
to the patch set and the way it's hacking up. I still fail to understand
what Geert is doing different in his "shallow" state that "s2idle" can't
achieve that state. So my comments were more aligned to that when I made
the above comment.

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Regards,
Sudeep