Re: [PATCH] clockevents: Fix suspend/resume to disk hangs

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Saturday, 17 March 2007 11:07, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner schrieb:
> > I finally found a dual core box, which survives suspend/resume without
> > crashing in the middle of nowhere. Sigh, I never figured out from the
> > code and the bug reports what's going on.
> >
> > The observed hangs are caused by a stale state transition of the clock
> > event devices, which keeps the RCU synchronization away from completion,
> > when the non boot CPU is brought back up.
> >
> > The suspend/resume in oneshot mode needs the similar care as the
> > periodic mode during suspend to RAM. My assumption that the state
> > transitions during the different shutdown/bringups of s2disk would go
> > through the periodic boot phase and then switch over to highres resp.
> > nohz mode were simply wrong.
> >
> > Add the appropriate suspend / resume handling for the non periodic
> > modes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >   
> 
> Excellent work. Now suspend to disk is working again. But:
> 
> 1.) The quirk added in commit a417a21e10831bca695b4ba9c74f4ddf5a95ac06
> for the appletouch driver doesn't seem to work after resume.
> 
> 2.) The first suspend to disk works with no problems, but the second
> suspend to disk in a row results in an oops:
>  ->resume_device ->
> pci_device_resume->ata_host_resume->ahci_pci_device_resume->ata_pci_device_do_resume->pci_restore_state

Can you please see if this problem is already in the Adrian's list of known
regressions?

Thanks,
Rafael
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