Re: Need Help to debug resume hangs at schedule() function

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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:38 PM,  <purusothaman.ramajothi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>        Thanks for the reply.I am using 2.6.27.18 kernel.But I think [Kernel hacking] ==> [Detect Hung Tasks] is added from 2.6.30 kernel.
>
> Is there any patch that I can apply to enable the "detec hung tasks" feature in 2.6.27 kernekl?

Clone the recent kernel.
Run git log -- kernel/hung_task.c
Pick resulting patches (and more patches if required), apply them to
yours, and resolve conflicts if exist.

>
> Is there any other way of debugging this issue using software methods?

Add more printks. Store the whole console output somewhere and
read/filter/search them later.

>
>
> Regards,
> Purusothaman R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MyungJoo Ham [mailto:myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 8:29 AM
> To: Purusothaman Ramajothi (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech)
> Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Need Help to debug resume hangs at schedule() function
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:52 PM,  <purusothaman.ramajothi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>>                 I am using 2.6.27.18 kernel.My machine is powerpc
>> architecture.I executed the deep sleep operation by executing the following
>> command:
>>
>>
>>
>> "echo mem > /sys/power/state"
>>
>>
>>
>> The suspend opeartion was successful.All the devices and user level threads
>> are suspended.
>>
>>
>>
>> But sometimes during resume my machine hangs.This is not happening
>> regularly.But it occurs after 60 or 70 times of deep sleep operation.So for
>> debugging this I have added checkpoints in the flow of deep check.When this
>> issue was produced the kernel hangs around "thaw_tasks" or "schedule"
>> function of "thaw_processes".These functions are defined in
>> "kernel/power/process.c".
>>
>
> Have you enabled [Kernel hacking] ==> [Detect Hung Tasks] and waited
> more than 120 seconds after the hang?
>
>>
>>
>> Note: The final printk message "Restarting tasks.....done" was not displayed
>> when this issue occurred.But all the devices and drivers resumed back.
>>
>>
>>
>> I was not able to debug this as the reproduciablity rate was too low.Kindly
>> help me in solving the issue.
>
> Around 1/100 is not that low for a suspend/resume issue. Don't get too
> frustrated. You will probably encounter much rarer (let's say 1/10000)
> incidents if you are doing the job with newly produced chips and
> boards. :D
>
> If you have some H/W tracers similar as T32, try it. It helps a lot.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Purusothaman R
>>
>>
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