PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend

At present, "systemctl suspend" and "shutdown" can run in parrallel. A
system can suspend after devices_shutdown(), and resume. Then the shutdown
task goes on to power off. This causes many devices are not really shut
off. Hence replacing reboot_mutex with system_transition_mutex (renamed
from pm_mutex) to achieve the exclusion. The renaming of pm_mutex as
system_transition_mutex can be better to reflect the purpose of the mutex.

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
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Pingfan Liu 2018-07-31 16:51:32 +08:00 • committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
commit 55f2503c3b
10 changed files with 40 additions and 36 deletions

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@ -204,26 +204,26 @@ VI. Are there any precautions to be taken to prevent freezing failures?
Yes, there are.
First of all, grabbing the 'pm_mutex' lock to mutually exclude a piece of code
First of all, grabbing the 'system_transition_mutex' lock to mutually exclude a piece of code
from system-wide sleep such as suspend/hibernation is not encouraged.
If possible, that piece of code must instead hook onto the suspend/hibernation
notifiers to achieve mutual exclusion. Look at the CPU-Hotplug code
(kernel/cpu.c) for an example.
However, if that is not feasible, and grabbing 'pm_mutex' is deemed necessary,
it is strongly discouraged to directly call mutex_[un]lock(&pm_mutex) since
However, if that is not feasible, and grabbing 'system_transition_mutex' is deemed necessary,
it is strongly discouraged to directly call mutex_[un]lock(&system_transition_mutex) since
that could lead to freezing failures, because if the suspend/hibernate code
successfully acquired the 'pm_mutex' lock, and hence that other entity failed
successfully acquired the 'system_transition_mutex' lock, and hence that other entity failed
to acquire the lock, then that task would get blocked in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
state. As a consequence, the freezer would not be able to freeze that task,
leading to freezing failure.
However, the [un]lock_system_sleep() APIs are safe to use in this scenario,
since they ask the freezer to skip freezing this task, since it is anyway
"frozen enough" as it is blocked on 'pm_mutex', which will be released
"frozen enough" as it is blocked on 'system_transition_mutex', which will be released
only after the entire suspend/hibernation sequence is complete.
So, to summarize, use [un]lock_system_sleep() instead of directly using
mutex_[un]lock(&pm_mutex). That would prevent freezing failures.
mutex_[un]lock(&system_transition_mutex). That would prevent freezing failures.
V. Miscellaneous
/sys/power/pm_freeze_timeout controls how long it will cost at most to freeze

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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ More details follow:
sysfs file
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v
Acquire pm_mutex lock
Acquire system_transition_mutex lock
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v
Send PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE
@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ execution during resume):
* thaw tasks
* send PM_POST_SUSPEND notifications
* Release pm_mutex lock.
* Release system_transition_mutex lock.
It is to be noted here that the pm_mutex lock is acquired at the very
It is to be noted here that the system_transition_mutex lock is acquired at the very
beginning, when we are just starting out to suspend, and then released only
after the entire cycle is complete (i.e., suspend + resume).