[RFC][PATCH -mm 0/2] Detect clock skew during suspend

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Aug 13 2006 - 17:08:48 EST


Hi,

If the CMOS timer is changed when the system is suspended to disk in such a
way that the time during the resume turns out to be earlier than the time
before the suspend, the resume often fails and the system hangs (spins
forever in the idle thread) due to driver problems.

For this reason it seems reasonable to make the timer .resume() routines
detect such situations and prevent them from happening, which is done
in the following two patches for i386 and x86_64.

Greetings,
Rafael


--
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
R. Buckminster Fuller

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/