Re: [PATCH] PM: acquire device locks prior to suspending

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On Thursday, 13 of December 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 of December 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:37:40 -0400 (EDT) Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch (as994) reorganizes the way suspend and resume
> > > notifications are sent to drivers.  The major changes are that now the
> > > PM core acquires every device semaphore before calling the methods,
> > > and calls to device_add() during suspends will fail.
> > 
> > Causes my t61p to deadlock during suspend-to-RAM.  Really late - the little
> > moon symbol has started to flash but the LCD is still powered and the
> > cursor still blinks.  Only a poweroff restores control.
> 
> Most probably, one of the drivers or a CPU hotplug notifier unregisters a
> device during suspend (wrong).
> 
> Please boot with no_console_suspend and check if the box survives (with this
> patch applied):
> 
> # echo 8 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
> # echo processors > /sys/power/pm_test
> # echo mem > /sys/power/state
> 
> If it doesn't, you can try 
> 
> # echo platform > /sys/power/pm_test
> # echo mem > /sys/power/state
> 
> and
> 
> # echo devices > /sys/power/pm_test
> # echo mem > /sys/power/state

Ah, that won't work, because git-acpi-build-fix.patch killed
/sys/power/pm_test altogether.  Sorry.
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