RE: 2.6.29: can't resume from suspend with DMAR (intel iommu)enabled

From: Yu, Fenghua
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 16:37:01 EST


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>* Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On vanilla 2.6.29 (on Ubuntu 8.10), on a Lenovo x200s, my system
>> is completely hosed on resume. It appears that even hard disk IO
>> didn't work (trying to do *anything* including getting a dmesg
>> trace just spewed sda io errors to the console). Hence no trace.
>> I did an alt-sysrq-b and the screen went blank and the machine
>> just started beeping at me.
>>
>> Resume works much better with intel_iommu=off. (I remember seeing
>> a patch go by that purported to fix resume with IOMMU enabled, but
>> it didn't work for me.)
>>
>> I'd be happy to try to make a better bug report if anyone has any
>> bright ideas.
>
>i have a Lenovo T500 that does not even boot with with DMAR enabled
>in the BIOS (it's default-off), i get this panic in early bootup:
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> DMAR hardware is malfunctioning
>
>So i dont get to test suspend/resume ;-)
>
Current kernel doesn't have iommu suspend/resume support yet. I'll send out suspend/resume patches today or tomorrow. Hope that will help.

Thanks.

-Fenghua
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