Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] xen/acpi: upload PM state from init-domain to Xen

From: Stanislaw Gruszka
Date: Thu Mar 23 2017 - 09:18:18 EST


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:56:02AM -0700, Ankur Arora wrote:
> >It is ok to do upload_pm_data() with delay i.e. after some other
> >resume actions are done and possibly xen-acpi-processor is in
> >running state ?
> The state uploaded is ACPI P and C state from struct acpi_processor
> which AFAICS is stable once inited so a delay would not lead to
> invalid state.
> The only concern would be the ACPI pCPU hotplug logic in
> acpi_processor_add() which could add a new entry in
> per_cpu(processors) but that also looks okay because either we
> get a NULL or we get a pointer to an inited structure.
>
> As for the hypervisor -- that falls back to more limited state after
> resume (because some of this state is thrown away at suspend) and so
> uses that until it gets the uploaded PM state from the initial-domain.

Patch looks good to me then.

Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>