Re: [3/6] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Mar 26 2007 - 12:27:36 EST


On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:37 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Resume from RAM (s2ram) still broke (tried with or without
> > > CONFIG_NO_HZ). Suspend to RAM seems ok, but upon resume, the screen
> > > will only display "inu" and only after pressing the power button will
> > > the system return to console. But "date" still doesn't advance.
> >
> > This might be related to the following regression:
> >
> > Subject : first disk access after resume takes several minutes
> > ('date' does not advance after resume from RAM, CONFIG_NO_HZ=n)
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/8/117
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/25/20
> > Submitter : Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > Status : problem is being debugged
>
> Adrian,
>
> It's related. I tested without CONFIG_HPET_TIMER, and now my X60 can
> suspend and resume from RAM (s2ram). Even better, it works
> with/without CONFIG_NO_HZ.

Does the patch below fix the HPET_TIMER=y case ?

tglx

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
index f3ab61e..76afea6 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static int hpet_next_event(unsigned long delta,
cnt += delta;
hpet_writel(cnt, HPET_T0_CMP);

- return ((long)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt ) > 0);
+ return ((long)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt ) > 0) ? -ETIME : 0;
}

/*



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