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On Tuesday 16 January 2007 23:29, Len Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 13:22, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > I have Toshiba Portege 4000 that almost always hangs dead resuming from
> > STR. This was better before 2.6.18, since then STR is unusable. Sometimes
> > it manages to resume; yesterday I got on console and in dmesg:
> >
> > =====================================
> > [ BUG: lock held at task exit time! ]
> > -------------------------------------
> > echo/28793 is exiting with locks still held!
> > 1 lock held by echo/28793:
> > #0: (pm_mutex){--..}, at: [<c013bfff>] enter_state+0x3f/0x170
> >
> > stack backtrace:
> > [<c0103fea>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> > [<c01045f2>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
> > [<c01046a6>] dump_stack+0x16/0x20
> > [<c0132377>] debug_check_no_locks_held+0x87/0x90
> > [<c011c8bb>] do_exit+0x4db/0x820
> > [<c011cc29>] do_group_exit+0x29/0x70
> > [<c011cc7f>] sys_exit_group+0xf/0x20
> > [<c010300e>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
> > =======================
>
> the global pm_mutex that this refers to is used in generic PM code, not USB
> code.
>
> enter_state() grabs it at the beginning of the suspend, and releases it
> when resume is completed.
>
> The mystery is why echo is exiting before enter_state() completes.
>
> >> if ! (/bin/echo $PARAM > $FILE &) ;then
> >> ret=1
> >> fi
>
> Same if you don't put the echo in the background here?
>
I just tried once more on 2.6.20-rc5 with
boot ... init=/bin/sh
mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
echo mem > /proc/power/state
this hung dead on resume - not a single message (kernel was compiled with
PM_DEBUG).
I usually do not get any messages at all. I believe it was two times I got
anything; one is quoted in bug report and second here.
- -andrey
> > I have a bug report about resume issue but I may have wrongly attributed
> > it to ACPI: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7499
>
> hard to say if the failure is related to ACPI or not at this point --
> though it is not unusual for people to assume that STR and ACPI
> are synonyms, so that if STR doesn't work it must be due to ACPI
> rather than generic PM code or drivers.
>
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