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

From: mark gross
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 13:28:37 EST


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:32:59PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> (Cc:s added)
>
> * Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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:
>
> DMAR hardware is malfunctioning

That happens when the polling of the IOMMU registers fail to behave as
expected in the VT-d specification. Typically its been a bios issue
when this happens.

>
> So i dont get to test suspend/resume ;-)
>
> Ingo
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