Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> writes: > ioapic_suspend() is not putting APICs in Legacy mode and that's why > we are seeing the issue. It only saves the IOAPIC routing table entries > and these entries are restored during ioapic_resume(). > > But I think somebody has to put APICs in legacy mode for normal > hibernation also. Not sure who does it. May be BIOS, so that during > resume, second kernel can get the timer interrupts. I doubt anything cares in the suspend to ram case. There should just be a small BIOS trampoline to get back to linux when the processor restarts. And you don't need interrupts for any of that. Eric