Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...>, <nigel@...>, Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <linux-pm@...>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...>, Len Brown <len.brown@...>
On Thursday, 15 of May 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Well, you don't remove the power from devices doing that, do you?
I was referring to the fact that you remove the power from devices after saving
the image (ie. in the "poweroff" stage). Then, you initialize them and pass
all that to the restored kernel and the question here is:
(a) Should they be reinitialized before the restored kernel has a chance to
access them?
(b) If they should, what state they ought to be in when the restored kernel
accesses them.
That basically depends on how you're going to handle the resuming of devices,
especially on the ACPI bus, in the restored kernel.
If we are to follow ACPI, the answer to (a) is "no", except for devices used to
read the image and it's better if the boot kernel doesn't touch ACPI at all.
Then, the benefit of putting the system into S4 during the "poweroff" stage is
that (a) the resume can be carried out faster and (b) the restored kernel may
use some context preserved by the platform over the sleep state.
Also, that allows you to use the wake up capabilities of some devices that
need not be available from S5.
In any case, however, I don't really think that doing the kexec jump before
creating the image is really necessary. The kexec jump during resume is in
fact very similar to what the current hibernation code does, but it's slightly
more complicated. :-)
Thanks,
Rafael
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