Re: [PATCH 3.12 46/62] irq: Enable all irqs unconditionally in irq_resume

[Heiko Stübner]

Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013, 20:27:02 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:52:53PM +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013, 10:08:47 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:01:13AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > > 3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> > > > > 
> > > > >  me know.
> > > > 
> > > > Objections... well... I'm not sure if it meets stable criteria. In
> > > > particular, I don't think it was ever demonstrated as having bad
> > > > effect on the users.
> > > 
> > > Well, I'm guessing someone on the cc: here wanted it in stable@, so
> > > I'll let them speak up as to why...
> > 
> > As for bad effects on users ... any suspend_noirq callback returning an
> > error and thus aborting the suspend will cause the error fixed by this,
> > as the early-irqs won't get reenabled in the suspend-rollback [due to
> > the syscore_ops doing their resume never being run].
> > 
> > You could for example lose keys connected thru the gpio-keys driver until
> > the next reboot.
> > 
> > And it seems at least Laxman and myself were affected by it.
> 
> So, to be clear, this patch fixes a problem on your machines, right?

yes it does fix a problem I ran into on my machines.


Heiko
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