The patch titled
s2ram debugging documentation
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
s2ram-debugging-documentation.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: s2ram debugging documentation
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
Linus posted quite nice TRACE_RESUME how-to, and I think it is too nice to
be hidden in archives of mailing list, so I turned it into Documentation
piece.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/power/s2ram.txt | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+)
diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/power/s2ram.txt
--- /dev/null
+++ a/Documentation/power/s2ram.txt
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+ How to get s2ram working
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ 2006 Linus Torvalds
+ 2006 Pavel Machek
+
+1) Check suspend.sf.net, program s2ram there has long whitelist of
+ "known ok" machines, along with tricks to use on each one.
+
+2) If that does not help, try reading tricks.txt and
+ video.txt. Perhaps problem is as simple as broken module, and
+ simple module unload can fix it.
+
+3) You can use Linus' TRACE_RESUME infrastructure, described below.
+
+ Using TRACE_RESUME
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+I've been working at making the machines I have able to STR, and almost
+always it's a driver that is buggy. Thank God for the suspend/resume
+debugging - the thing that Chuck tried to disable. That's often the _only_
+way to debug these things, and it's actually pretty powerful (but
+time-consuming - having to insert TRACE_RESUME() markers into the device
+driver that doesn't resume and recompile and reboot).
+
+Anyway, the way to debug this for people who are interested (have a
+machine that doesn't boot) is:
+
+ - enable PM_DEBUG, and PM_TRACE
+
+ - use a script like this:
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ sync
+ echo 1 > /sys/power/pm_trace
+ echo mem > /sys/power/state
+
+ to suspend
+
+ - if it doesn't come back up (which is usually the problem), reboot by
+ holding the power button down, and look at the dmesg output for things
+ like
+
+ Magic number: 4:156:725
+ hash matches drivers/base/power/resume.c:28
+ hash matches device 0000:01:00.0
+
+ which means that the last trace event was just before trying to resume
+ device 0000:01:00.0. Then figure out what driver is controlling that
+ device (lspci and /sys/devices/pci* is your friend), and see if you can
+ fix it, disable it, or trace into its resume function.
+
+For example, the above happens to be the VGA device on my EVO, which I
+used to run with "radeonfb" (it's an ATI Radeon mobility). It turns out
+that "radeonfb" simply cannot resume that device - it tries to set the
+PLL's, and it just _hangs_. Using the regular VGA console and letting X
+resume it instead works fine.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from pavel@xxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-acpi.patch
backlight-do-not-power-off-backlight-when-unregistering-try-3.patch
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