Re: [PATCH 0/2] Run callback of device_prepare/complete consistently

From: Yanmin Zhang
Date: Fri Jun 07 2013 - 20:40:19 EST


On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 12:36 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, June 07, 2013 04:20:30 PM shuox.liu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > dpm_run_callback is used in other stages of power states changing.
> > It provides debug info message and time measurement when call these
> > callback. We also want to benefit ->prepare and ->complete.
> >
> > [PATCH 1/2] PM: use dpm_run_callback in device_prepare
> > [PATCH 2/2] PM: add dpm_run_callback_void and use it in device_complete
>
> Is this an "Oh, why don't we do that?" series, or is it useful for anything
> in practice? I'm asking, because we haven't added that stuff to start with
> since we didn't see why it would be useful to anyone.
>
> And while patch [1/2] reduces the code size (by 1 line), so I can see some
> (tiny) benefit from applying it, patch [2/2] adds more code and is there any
> paractical reason?
Sometimes, suspend-to-ram path spends too much time (either suspend slowly
or wakeup slowly) and we need optimize it.
With the 2 patches, we could collect initcall_debug printk info and manually
check what prepare/complete callbacks consume too much time.

Thanks,
Yanmin


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