Re: [Regression, post-2.6.34] Hibernation broken on machines with radeon/KMS and r300

From: Alex Deucher
Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 12:00:37 EST


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Alex, Dave,
>
> I'm afraid hibernation is broken on all machines using radeon/KMS with r300
> after commit ce8f53709bf440100cb9d31b1303291551cf517f
> (drm/radeon/kms/pm: rework power management).  At least, I'm able to reproduce
> the symptom, which is that the machine hangs hard around the point where an
> image is created (probably during the device thaw phase), on two different
> boxes with r300 (the output of lspci from one of them is attached for
> reference, the other one is HP nx6325).
>
> Suspend to RAM appears to work fine at least on one of the affected boxes.
>
> Unfortunately, the commit above changes a lot of code and it's not too easy to
> figure out what's wrong with it and I didn't have the time to look more into
> details of this failure.  However, it looks like you use .suspend() and
> .resume() callbacks as .freeze() and .thaw() which may not be 100% correct
> (in fact it looks like the "legacy" PCI suspend/resume is used, which is not
> recommended any more).
>

Does it work any better after Dave's last drm pull request? With the
latest changes, pm should not be a factor unless it's explicitly
enabled via sysfs.

Alex

> Thanks,
> Rafael
>
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