Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

On Monday, 16 July 2007 16:42, Huang, Ying wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:17 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
is this  a matter of running some test to find out, or is this a question
for the kexec implemantors?

Actually, I'd like someone to tell me. ;-)

I've browsed the kexec code, but haven't found anything related to the devices
in it.  Perhaps I didn't know where to look ...

There are two stages for kexec. For "normal" kexec, first the
sys_kexe_load is called to load the kernel image, then
sys_reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC) is called to boot the new kernel.

OK, thanks.  This is the information that I was missing.

The call chain is as follow:

sys_reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC)
    kernel_kexec
        kernel_restart_prepare
            device_shutdown
        machine_shutdown
        machine_kexec

In device_shutdown, the dev->bus->shutdown or dev->driver->shutdown of
every device is called to put device in quiescent state. In
machine_kexec, the new kernel is booted.

Yes.

So, for normal kexec, there is no code path for device state saving and
restoring.

Exactly.

State of device can be restore after shutdown? I don't think so.

No, it can't, but we need something like this for hibernation and
device_shutdown() is not appropriate for this purpose IMO.

is the only reason that device_shutdown() is not appropriate the amount of time it takes to shutdown some devices and then start them up again? (I'm specificly thinking of drive spin down/up as an example)

if so, it is probably worth implementing a demo with the long times involved to hash out any other problems, and then implemnt shortcuts to avoid the device_shutdown only where the time involved is excessive.

so, exactly where in the process above does the memory map need to be created? is this in the machine_shutdown step or would it need to be in the machine_kexec step?

David Lang
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