Re: [PATCH] Revert "xen/acpi-processor: fix enabling interrupts on syscore_resume"

From: David Vrabel
Date: Mon Sep 29 2014 - 10:56:27 EST


On 29/09/14 15:51, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> This reverts commit cd979883b9ede90643e019f33cb317933eb867b4.
>
> As it actually never gets called on the initial domain when
> resuming. That is after we suspend and go in resume, the
> do_suspend (from manage.c) is never called (it is if it
> was running as a guest)- so the 'resume' functionality of the driver
> was never called.
>
> Which means that this whole patch was pointless (well, it did
> remove the WARNING splat).
>
> This patch reverts the patch and allows the C and P states to
> be uploaded to the hypervisor on ACPI S3 resume of the
> initial domain. It sadly brings back the WARNING splat which
> will have to be dealt with at some point.

Incorrectly enabling interrupts in contexts where this is not permitted
is not just harmless "WARNING splat".

This has been broken since 3.15-rc1 without anyone else noticing so I
think we can afford to take a bit more time and fix the original bug
properly.

David
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