No, it's not safe to run the AML interpreter with interrupts disabled. I don't have any problem with introducing finer granularity enter/exit sleep interfaces if they are required. I would suggest that we rename things a bit however. Currently: acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep_late acpi_enter_sleep_state acpi_leave_sleep_state_prep acpi_leave_sleep_state I think we can truncate and clarify: acpi_sleep_setup1 acpi_sleep_setup2 acpi_sleep acpi_wake_setup1 acpi_wake acpi_set_sleep_state_indicator: I'm not sure if we have any external interfaces that simply execute a control method, seems like overkill. Please give me more information as to why _SSI needs to be moved (other than executing it after _BFS) Thanks, Bob -----Original Message----- From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:05 PM To: Moore, Robert Cc: Andrew Morton; ACPI Devel Maling List; Len Brown; LKML; Pavel Machek; pm list Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Improve handling of ACPI system state indicator (rev. 3) On Tuesday, 28 August 2007 21:57, Moore, Robert wrote: > Since these changes appear to affect the ACPICA core in a fairly big > way, I would like to see a short, concise description of each change and > why it is necessary. All right. I'll describe the changes made by the current version of the patches, but please note that if it's safe to run the AML interpreter with IRQs disabled, it's better to do some of them in a different way. 1. Remove the execution of _GTS from acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep() acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep() is called before disabling the nonboot CPUs and _GTS should be executed after that, according to the spec. 2. Introduce acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep_late() that will execute _GTS Necessary because of 1. 3. Split acpi_leave_sleep_state() into two functions: acpi_leave_sleep_state_prep() and acpi_leave_sleep_state(). acpi_leave_sleep_state_prep() contains the code that should be executed before enabling the nonboot CPUs, most importantly the execution of _BFS, and acpi_leave_sleep_state() contains the remaining code (the enabling of GPEs, the execution of _WAK and the enabling of power buttons) 4. Change the code ordering in acpi_leave_sleep_state_prep() (introduced in 3.) so that _SST is executed after _BFS According to the spec, _BFS should be the first ACPI method executed after leaving a sleep state 5. Introduce acpi_set_sleep_state_indicator() that will execute _SST for given ACPI sleep state Needed so that we can set the state indicator independently of the other lower-level operations. 6. Remove the execution of _SST from acpi_leave_sleep_state() No longer needed, because we can use acpi_set_sleep_state_indicator() to set the state indicator appropriately from higher level routines. The other changes affect only drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c and the files in kernel/power . Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
