On Monday, 22 of September 2008, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Sunday, 21 of September 2008, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > >> Maxim Levitsky wrote: > >>> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >>>> On Saturday, 20 of September 2008, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> I hit a dead end when trying to understand why my notebook can't > >>>>> resume from suspend to ram > >>>>> if this is done two times a row. > >>>>> > >>>>> Single suspend/resume cycle works almost perfectly (beep that goes > >>>>> through the sound card is muted... no morse code for me... :-( > >>>>> > >>>>> ) > >>>>> > >>>>> I compiled a minimal kernel (absolutely nothing but disk drivers, all > >>>>> experimental option like nohz > >>>>> turned off) > >>>>> > >>>>> But I had to turn SMP, since without it system won't resume first > >>>>> time I suspend it. > >>>>> (How could this affect suspend?) > >>>> It could if the system is 64-bit. In which case please have a look at > >>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237 > >>>> > >>>>> With SMP and minimal kernel (of course no closed drivers), I get > >>>>> same behavior, > >>>>> first resume works second hangs. > >>>>> > >>>>> I then added some debug code to real mode wakeup code, I put there in > >>>>> first > >>>>> place instructions, that will save some magic value to rtc (to alarm > >>>>> registers that I know are preserved during boot cycle), and I > >>>>> discovered sad thing that first time bios does pass control to > >>>>> linux, but second time > >>>>> (when it hangs), it doesn't. > >>>>> > >>>>> I tried to update bios, and I got same results. > >>>>> > >>>>> Of course it does work with that @#$%^& OS > >>>> So we're doing something wrong. Please try the appended patch. > >>> Thanks a lot, but this didn't help. > >>> > >>> It still has same pattern, first suspend/resume works perfectly, second > >>> suspend/resume hangs hard. > >>> It always happens like this, first resume always work (unless I turn off > >>> smp in kernel (I test this again), or reserve all low memory) > >>> > >>> Also note that if I suspend the system to ram, resume, and then suspend > >>> to disk, then I can suspend to ram and resume, it seems that > >>> > >>> on suspend to ram cycle somehow arms BIOS or something else, so second > >>> resume in a row doesn't work. > >>> > >>> I run 32 bit kernel here, this is a long story (this bios doesn't turn > >>> fan on when running 64-bit version, I could update it, and I know that > >>> fan issue is fixed there, but new bios introduces bigger bug, namely it > >>> makes fan to run almost always regardless of 32/64 type of os. > >>> And it doesn't fix this suspend/resume issue, I tested this. I could > >>> start/stop fan manually with a script, but this could fail, and maybe I > >>> will do so someday.) > >>> > >>> The bugzilla seems to be unrelated here, since bios does pass control > >>> there, but corrupts memory. > >>> Here I also have seen that bios corrupts memory, but everything resumes > >>> fine first time, and on second time, > >>> bios doesn't pass control (I put set of instructions in beginning of > >>> wakeup real mode assembly file, no page tables, GDT/LDT are used there) > >> I did same test for kernel without SMP, yes it hangs on first resume, but bios > >> does pass control to linux, so while this is a minor bug, it is unrelated. > > > > Still, I'd be interested in debugging this one too, if possible. That may be > > easier too. ;-) > > I take a look at that. > > > > >> I also tested noapic, pci=nommconf. No luck. > >> > >> Pattern is always the same, first resume works always, second doesn't. > >> It is sad since first resume is almost perfect (when I have free time I need to look at sound codec datasheet > >> and fix few issues there, anyways here alsa has few issues, all this is trivial, I already fixed all issues with desktop > >> which has a sigmatel codec) > > > > If you have more than 2 GB of RAM, you can try iommu=soft . > > > > I guess that all of the /sys/power/pm_test tests are passed? > > Well, I didn't run /sys/power/pm_test. > But this system has rock solid suspend to disk, I use it always. Please look at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11415 . Perhaps you can add some information into it. Thanks, Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
