Hi,
On Sunday, 26 November 2006 20:51, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Since pm_ops->finish() has to be called after enable_nonboot_cpus() and before
> > device_resume(), from the userland interface perspective it should be treated
> > as a part of the atomic suspend and resume operations. For this reason we
> > need two additional ioctls to be called instead of ATOMIC_SNAPSHOT and
> > ATOMIC_RESTORE, respectively, when the platform suspend mode is to be used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at sisk.pl>
> > ---
> > kernel/power/power.h | 4 ++
> > kernel/power/user.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm1/kernel/power/power.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm1.orig/kernel/power/power.h
> > +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm1/kernel/power/power.h
> > @@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ struct resume_swap_area {
> > #define SNAPSHOT_PMOPS _IOW(SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAGIC, 12, unsigned int)
> > #define SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA _IOW(SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAGIC, 13, \
> > struct resume_swap_area)
> > -#define SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAXNR 13
> > +#define SNAPSHOT_PLATFORM_SNAPSHOT _IOW(SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAGIC, 14, unsigned int)
> > +#define SNAPSHOT_PLATFORM_RESTORE _IO(SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAGIC, 15)
> > +#define SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAXNR 15
>
> Maybe we should add SNAPSHOT_WITH_FLAGS (uint)
> RESTORE_WITH_FLAGS (uint)
>
> with one of those flags being USE_PLATFORM_MODE? We may need more
> flags in future...
Sure, we can do that.
> ...or maybe have ioctl(fd, USE_PLATFORM_MODE)?
No. At least I'm not going to implement it. ;-)
Greetings,
Rafael
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