Re: 2.6.18-rc4 (and earlier): CMOS clock corruption during suspend to disk on i386

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Aug 09 2006 - 16:00:02 EST


On Wednesday 09 August 2006 14:30, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> >
> > It looks like the CMOS clock gets corrupted during the suspend to disk
> > on i386. I've observed this on 2 different boxes. Moreover, one of them is
> > AMD64-based and the x86_64 kernel doesn't have this problem on it.
> >
> > Also, I've done some tests that indicate the corruption doesn't occur before
> > saving the suspend image. It rather happens when the box is powered off
> > or rebooted (tested both cases).
> >
> > Unfortunately, I have no more time to debug it further right now.
>
> Do you have Linus' "please corrupt my cmos for debuggin" hack enabled?

Well, I know nothing about that. ;-)

Rafael
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