Hi! > > And why do _you_ need it? Unfortunately I do not know what the > > decrementer is...? > > The decrementer is a sort of timer that counts down and once it > overflows raises an exception in the CPU. Like a timer interrupt, but > not coming from anything external. We need to be able to make sure we > don't get a decrementer exception at some spots. > > Also, we need to call some platform function things at that point to > prepare the system for suspend, and it needs to be done with interrupts > enabled but after all devices are suspended. Hmm, and can't you simply create sysdev for decrementer and special platform handling? sysdevs should be suspended last... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
