Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: Support for platform initiated graceful shutdown

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Hi Rafael,

On 6/22/2016 4:43 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Prakash, Prashanth
> <pprakash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Rafael,
>>
>> On 6/21/2016 5:50 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 02:05:05 PM Prakash, Prashanth wrote:
>>>> Hi Rafael,
>>>>
>>>> Any inputs on this patch?
>>> Does it actually work?
>> Yes, it works :)
>>> It looks like sybus_evaluate_ost() schedules itself with a delay in an
>>> endless loop and the poweroff will happen anyway without waiting.
>>>
>>> I guess the idea is that acpi_sybus_notify() will schedule a delayed work
>>> doing the sybus_evaluate_ost() and that will do the orderly_poweroff() thing,
>>> but that's not what the patch is doing.
>> The specification requires us to start graceful shutdown and then keep evaluating _OST
>> method every 10 seconds with a status code of 0x81 to indicate that shutdown is in
>> progress.
> So add a comment like this, so people don't have to wonder.
ok.
>
> Also I'm not sure if the delayed_work_pending() really does what you
> expect it to do.
>
> And why to you need a delayed work instead of just a work that will do
> "evaluate _OST; wait" in an endless loop?
I will change it to a simple work instead of delayed work.

Thanks for your feedback! I will update the patch and post v3.


Thanks,
-Prashanth

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