PM: Make it possible to avoid races between wakeup and system sleep

One of the arguments during the suspend blockers discussion was that
the mainline kernel didn't contain any mechanisms making it possible
to avoid races between wakeup and system suspend.

Generally, there are two problems in that area.  First, if a wakeup
event occurs exactly when /sys/power/state is being written to, it
may be delivered to user space right before the freezer kicks in, so
the user space consumer of the event may not be able to process it
before the system is suspended.  Second, if a wakeup event occurs
after user space has been frozen, it is not generally guaranteed that
the ongoing transition of the system into a sleep state will be
aborted.

To address these issues introduce a new global sysfs attribute,
/sys/power/wakeup_count, associated with a running counter of wakeup
events and three helper functions, pm_stay_awake(), pm_relax(), and
pm_wakeup_event(), that may be used by kernel subsystems to control
the behavior of this attribute and to request the PM core to abort
system transitions into a sleep state already in progress.

The /sys/power/wakeup_count file may be read from or written to by
user space.  Reads will always succeed (unless interrupted by a
signal) and return the current value of the wakeup events counter.
Writes, however, will only succeed if the written number is equal to
the current value of the wakeup events counter.  If a write is
successful, it will cause the kernel to save the current value of the
wakeup events counter and to abort the subsequent system transition
into a sleep state if any wakeup events are reported after the write
has returned.

[The assumption is that before writing to /sys/power/state user space
will first read from /sys/power/wakeup_count.  Next, user space
consumers of wakeup events will have a chance to acknowledge or
veto the upcoming system transition to a sleep state.  Finally, if
the transition is allowed to proceed, /sys/power/wakeup_count will
be written to and if that succeeds, /sys/power/state will be written
to as well.  Still, if any wakeup events are reported to the PM core
by kernel subsystems after that point, the transition will be
aborted.]

Additionally, put a wakeup events counter into struct dev_pm_info and
make these per-device wakeup event counters available via sysfs,
so that it's possible to check the activity of various wakeup event
sources within the kernel.

To illustrate how subsystems can use pm_wakeup_event(), make the
low-level PCI runtime PM wakeup-handling code use it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: markgross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
index d6a801f45b4..2875f1f74a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
@@ -114,3 +114,18 @@ Description:
                 if this file contains "1", which is the default.  It may be
                 disabled by writing "0" to this file, in which case all devices
                 will be suspended and resumed synchronously.
+
+What:           /sys/power/wakeup_count
+Date:           July 2010
+Contact:        Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+Description:
+                The /sys/power/wakeup_count file allows user space to put the
+                system into a sleep state while taking into account the
+                concurrent arrival of wakeup events.  Reading from it returns
+                the current number of registered wakeup events and it blocks if
+                some wakeup events are being processed at the time the file is
+                read from.  Writing to it will only succeed if the current
+                number of wakeup events is equal to the written value and, if
+                successful, will make the kernel abort a subsequent transition
+                to a sleep state if any wakeup events are reported after the
+                write has returned.